Institutional Learning Outcomes: Intercultural Awareness, Indigenous Knowledges and Ways Local to Global enhances student capacity for intercultural understanding by encouraging empathy and skills development essential for respectful engagement within the culturally diverse communities within TRU and beyond. Students will reflect on the historical and ongoing struggle to recognize the rights of Indigenous peoples both locally and globally. They will explore the impacts of national and international acts, charters, and declarations on the Secwépemc people in the region; articulate how current cultural power dynamics are influenced by immigration and colonialism; and reflect on their own cultural orientations, preferences, and positionalities as one of many ways to experience and be in the world. Topics include intercultural dynamics, power and privilege, the ongoing impacts of colonization, reconciliation, critical allyship, responding to discrimination, stereotypes, and conflict resolution. Prerequisite: One of: Composition 11, Creative Writing 11, Literary Studies 11, New Media 11, Spoken Language 11, EFP Literary Studies 11 and Writing 11, EFP Literary Studies and New Media 11, EFP Literary Studies and Spoken Language 11 or ENGL 0500 C+ or ESAL level IV with a C+ grade minimum. Exclusion: STSS 1060
Institutional Learning Outcomes: Intercultural Awareness, Indigenous Knowledges and Ways Local to Global enhances student capacity for intercultural understanding by encouraging empathy and skills development essential for respectful engagement within the culturally diverse communities within TRU and beyond. Students will reflect on the historical and ongoing struggle to recognize the rights of Indigenous peoples both locally and globally. They will explore the impacts of national and international acts, charters, and declarations on the Secwépemc people in the region; articulate how current cultural power dynamics are influenced by immigration and colonialism; and reflect on their own cultural orientations, preferences, and positionalities as one of many ways to experience and be in the world. Topics include intercultural dynamics, power and privilege, the ongoing impacts of colonization, reconciliation, critical allyship, responding to discrimination, stereotypes, and conflict resolution. Prerequisite: One of: Composition 11, Creative Writing 11, Literary Studies 11, New Media 11, Spoken Language 11, EFP Literary Studies 11 and Writing 11, EFP Literary Studies and New Media 11, EFP Literary Studies and Spoken Language 11 or ENGL 0500 C+ or ESAL level IV with a C+ grade minimum. Exclusion: STSS 1060
