Reducing Ethnocentrism in U.S. College Students by Completing a Cross-Cultural Psychology Course

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry F. Pettijohn II ◽  
Ginny M. Naples
2020 ◽  
pp. 009862832097727
Author(s):  
Yan Wei ◽  
Julie Spencer-Rodgers ◽  
Elise Anderson ◽  
Kaiping Peng

Intercultural competence—the ability to successfully interact and communicate sensitively with members of other cultural groups—is an essential skill in multicultural societies and an increasingly globalized world. A quasi-experimental study revealed that completing a cross-cultural international psychology course increased college students’ perceived intercultural competence substantially, relative to students in a control (research methods) course. The curriculum included an extensive 10-week Cultural Immersion Project, conducted on campus and in the local community, and weekly experientially based group projects. The course may be especially effective for college students with less prior intercultural experience.


2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Wang ◽  
Chuan Liu ◽  
Bahjat Fakieh ◽  
Li Zheng ◽  
Maozhu Jin ◽  
...  

Abstract The latest “Guide to College English Teaching” lists cross-cultural education as an important part of college English courses. At the same time, ICAO ’s requirements for civil aviation pilots and controllers ’cross-cultural abilities increase year by year, which raises new requirements for the cultivation of cultural abilities. This article explores this subject from two aspects of cross-cultural psychology and cross-cultural behavior, using SPSS22.0 data analysis method and Delphi method to establish an evaluation model, which includes four first-level indicators: attitude, awareness, knowledge and skill. Attitude and consciousness evaluate cross-cultural psychology, and knowledge and skills evaluate cross-cultural behavior. Under the 4 first-level indicators, there are 6 second-level indicators and 17 third-level indicators. This paper uses the accuracy and convenience of language operators in the process of information conversion to transform fuzzy subjective qualitative analysis into quantitative analysis, and proposes a set of evaluation methods for cross-cultural competence based on language operators. At the same time, an empirical study was conducted with C University as an example. The statistical results show that the method has good applicability and scientificity for the evaluation of the cross-cultural competence of civil aviation college students.


1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-397
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson ◽  
Pamela Ramser

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