ENG 1100 - Crossing Cultures with Texts

• Students will be able to describe elements of another culture, such as history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices.
• Students will be able to recognize complex interactions between different cultures, including their own, and identity markers like race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, religion, and other differences.
• Students will be able to apply literary and analytical principles, terminology, and methods to identify and discuss features of intercultural texts.
• Students will be able to craft thoughtful questions and answers around intercultural texts that reflect varied cultural perspectives and indicate an understanding of and empathy for other perspectives.
• Students will be able to analyze, interpret, and/or evaluate intercultural texts to articulate insights about their own cultural rules and biases and develop approaches to mitigate them.
• Students will be able to communicate concepts and evidence related to the role that language, identity, and representation play in the mediation of cultural interaction and cultural conflict.
• Students will be able to interact with others who are culturally different from themselves in an open and supportive way.
• Students will be able to identify in texts instances of historic, economic, political, and/or social factors that transnationally produce and complicate cultural biases (e.g., ethnocentrism, colonialism, slavery, liberal democracy).