Web Presence: Choices
Web Presence: Implicit Bias
Use the link Harvard Implicit Bias Test and follow the directions filling in the information they request from you. Make sure you have about 10-15 minutes to complete the survey. The implicit bias survey gives you "opportunity to assess your conscious and unconscious preferences for over 90 topics ranging from pets to political issues, ethnic groups to sports teams, and entertainers to styles of music" while participating in active and ongoing research. Make sure you minimize distractions and have about 15 minutes to complete the research assessment.
Once done, review your answers. Do you agree or disagree with the findings? You may attach your results sheet to your brief journal entry but it is not required. Answer one of the following questions (from the handout attached at the bottom of this page or in your syllabus packet):
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Once done, review your answers. Do you agree or disagree with the findings? You may attach your results sheet to your brief journal entry but it is not required. Answer one of the following questions (from the handout attached at the bottom of this page or in your syllabus packet):
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Web Presence: Researching Israel-Palestine Conflict
This web presence requires that you do a little reading, watching, and listening to folks talking about Israel and/or Palestine. Please spend about 45 minutes on this web presence. Use this link or this one and choose a few articles to read, watch a video, or listen to a podcast, then make your intercultural connection using one of the following questions:
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
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Web Presence: Accent Archive
Use the link Accent Archive and briefly review how to use this site and then browse. Listen to a few different languages/accents. Afterwards, make your intercultural connection using one of the following questions:
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Web Presence: Special Guest Speaker (your choice)
Use the link God Bless the Whole World and choose any topic and any speaker from this site. Watch the Video, and then write your paragraph illustrating your connections.
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Web Presence: The Hermit Kingdom by VICE
Click on the link The Hermit Kingdom or watch the video above. If you're having trouble, go to YouTube and search "Vice on HBO The Hermit Kingdom".
How does media shape our reality? View this video through the lens of intercultural communication and answer one of the connecting questions listed below the video.
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Web Presence: Racial Inequality Debate
Watch Tim Wise, considered one of the nation’s most prominent anti-racist essayists and educators and Michael Eric Dyson, academic, author, radio host and professor of Sociology at Georgetown University debate white nationalists Matthew Heimbach and Jared Taylor, founder and editor of American Renaissance, a white supremacist online magazine. Take some notes and make your intercultural connection using one of the questions:
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Web Presence: White Privilege: How to become an Ally
Use the link White Privilege and check out some of the information that activists and everyday folk are discussing in terms of how to become an intercultural ally.
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Web Presence: Talks on Justice
Watch the video above or use the link We need to talk about an injustice and watch the first talk by Bryan Stevenson, then choose one additional talk from the list highlighting justice (or lack thereof, depending on your point of view). Take some notes and make some connections using one of the following questions:
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Web Presence: Prom Night in Mississippi
Watch the video above or use the link Prom Night in Mississippi and watch the 90 minute documentary. Yet another reason to love actor Morgan Freeman, who is the one who financed the first integrated prom in Mississippi (in 2008)! As you can imagine the town had mixed emotions and I found it very interesting listening to the individual camera interviews of folks explaining and making sense of racism. Please watch, take note of your emotional reactions and please write a paragraph using the connecting question/s below as your guide.
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Web Presence: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Watch the video above or use the link Beyond Beats and Rhymes and watch the documentary (about an hour). Please write a paragraph explaining your intercultural connections using one of the following questions:
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Jane Elliot's Blue Eye/Brown Eye Experiential Learning Exercise
Jane Elliott, internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, exposes prejudice and bigotry for what it is, an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors.
Please watch the video above or use the link Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Experiment and watch the 29 minute video in its entirety. Take 5 minutes (time it) and free-write your response to the activity, then answer one of the following connection questions:
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Please watch the video above or use the link Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Experiment and watch the 29 minute video in its entirety. Take 5 minutes (time it) and free-write your response to the activity, then answer one of the following connection questions:
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Web Presence: Forgiveness
Use the link Forgiveness and check out the two websites that I have provided for you on that page (The Forgiveness Project and THE Power of Forgiveness). Please choose at LEAST TWO (2) stories on The Forgiveness Project website to read (you can also take the Forgiveness Quiz, if you desire), then answer one of the following connection questions:
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Web Presence: For Neda
Watch the video above or use the link For Neda and watch the documentary revealing the true story of a young Iranian girl who a casualty of Iran's crackdown on protests during 2009 and how social media played a role in this struggle. After watching the video in its entirety answer one of the following connecting questions:
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Web Presence: Who do you think you are?
Watch the video above or use the link Who Do You Think You Are? and choose any of the episodes that you seem interesting to you (about 45 minutes), then write your paragraph highlighting the intercultural connections using one of the following questions:
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Web Presence: StoryCorps
Go to StoryCorps.org and listen to at least five (5) stories. Please list the stories you listened to and write a paragraph explaining your intercultural connections using one of the following questions:
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Web Presence: Intersectionality
Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, - the academic who coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and co-founder of the African American Policy Forum - gives a keynote on the unique challenges facing women and girls of color when it comes to the struggle for gender equality, racial justice and well-being.
Watch the video above or use the link Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, take some notes and make some connections using one of the following questions:
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Web Presence: Raised In The System
Actor Michael Kenneth Williams (HBO's The Wire) goes in depth and explores mass incarceration and the juvenile justice system.
Watch the video above or use the link Vice - Raised In The System, take some notes and make some connections using one of the following questions:
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
Watch the video above or use the link Vice - Raised In The System, take some notes and make some connections using one of the following questions:
How is this material connected to material we have already covered in this class?
How is this material connected to what is presently happening in your own life or in the world?
How does this change your current thinking about this topic?
How does this connect to our course learning outcomes?
