Objectives
An important unit objective is to help students understand that cultures can exist together and enrich our lives without threatening our sense of self. Together, we will explore our own cultural substance as a series of choices and experiences rather than as an innate fact.
Students and teacher in the class will explain how identity and culture are socially constructed. Through readings, film clips, images, and our own reflective analysis, students will see how culture is defined by location and time and is constantly changing. They will also be able to explain how their worldview is one perspective of many.
Students and teacher in the class will define the ways that they have constructed an identity and culture. We will identify what we have learned as individuals that shapes our perspective.
Students and teacher in the class will evaluate the process of understanding their cultural lenses. Through guided self-reflection using interactive journals, we will gauge our progress in unearthing the layers of cultural understandings and assumptions that have developed and assess our ability to remove ourselves from these assumptions in order to open up and consider the ideas of others.
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