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Course Description

This service-learning course introduces undergraduates to cross-cultural communication, civic responsibility, and community engagement. Working with a local non-profit food pantry and day shelter, students co-construct narratives and examine their role in democratic society, with equal emphasis on fieldwork and classroom instruction to immerse them in the targeted culture and social structures.

Athena Title

Culture-Centered Communication

Pre or Corequisite

AGCM 3810

Semester Course Offered

Offered spring

Grading System

A - F (Traditional)

Student Learning Outcomes

Students will understand the significance and application of culture-centered communication in local and international communities.
Students will develop co-constructed messages and narratives through various forms of media.
Students will understand the broader implications and power of structural dynamics across cultures.

Topical Outline

1. Welcome and intro
2. Conducting a personal inventory – Overview of food insecurity
3. Culture-centered communication and engagement
4. Critical reflexive analysis
5. Fieldwork – Tour of Northeast Georgia Food Bank
6. Listening
7. Interviewing techniques and narrative development
8. Fieldwork – volunteering at local food pantries
9. Fieldwork – interviewing food pantry clients
10. Photovoice
11. Fieldwork – interviewing food pantry clients
12. Co-construction of narratives
13. Narratives in video and written formats
14. Project wrap-up

Institutional Competencies

Communication

The ability to effectively develop, express, and exchange ideas in written, oral, or visual form.

Creativity & Innovation

The capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative way characterized by innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.

Social Awareness & Responsibility

The capacity to understand the interdependence of people, communities, and self in a global society.

Syllabus

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Culture-Centered Communication and Engagement