A Journey to Intercultural Consciousness

This video from the Ohio State Multicultural Center shows how the center's programs guide students on a journey from personal identity to intercultural consciousness. Ohio State students are assisted in answering the questions: Who Am I? Who Are You? and Who Are We? in the interest of taking part in global leadership and social justice.
The MCC is a department of Student Life at The Ohio State University.

Transcript for A Journey to Intercultural Consciousness

Are YOU a Global Citizen?
Will you be ready for the world when you leave Ohio State?

Who Am I? Who Are You? Who Are We?

Who Am I?
Do you know who you are?
How much are you defined from within vs. external perceptions?
What helps you be able to really KNOW and be OPENLY who you are?
What hinders you in this journey?

Our journey to Who Am I is a lifelong process...but the more we can confidently know and articulate who we are, the more open we can be to really listening to others' journeys of personal identity.

Who Are You?
What do you learn from listening to someone else?
How do you encourage someone else to open up to you?
How well do you share a conversation with someone who is different from you?
How comfortable are others sharing with you?

Our journey to gaining others' trust in sharing with us is a process of building non-defensive communication skills, such as active listening and dialogue.

Who Are We?
What inspires you to take action on behalf of someone else?
How important is it to you to have a hand in changing things for the better?
Who are you in a community?

Are you a global citizen?

The Multicultural Center, a department of Student Life at Ohio State, has over 500 programs a year, all focused on teaching students the personal and interpersonal skills you need to be effective in a global community.

(intercultural celebrations, awareness events, extra-curricular dialogues, student leadership groups, prejudice reduction trainings and intergroup dialogue courses)

All MCC program are open to everyone.

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Intercultural consciousness .... the capacity to engage in meaningful interdependent relationships with diverse others ....to comfortably and more effectively act as advocates or social justice allies across a range of social issues, from civil rights to causes related to specific social identities.

-Patricia M. King, Marcia B. Baxter Magolda—A Developmental Model of Intercultural Maturity
Journal of College Student Development, Volume 46, Number 6, November/December 2005, pp. 571-592 Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press DOI: 10.1353/csd.2005.0060

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