Multicultural/Valuing - Performance

General Education Capstone Course

Event/Experience Details and Guideline Form

Gen. Ed. Category Event should be listed under: Multicultural/Valuing

SCC Competency addressed by event: #4. Students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the evolving nature of societies and the interdependence among all peoples.

Event experience Title: Cultural Event/ Performance or International Speaker

Anticipated Learning Outcome:

Successful completion of this project will allow students to experience another culture and gain insight into how cultural perspectives are embedded in literary and artistic expression.  Recognizing that cultures use different patterns of interaction and communication, students will find appreciation not only in other cultures, but their own.  Hopefully students will make connections to their own culture and positive comparisons with others.

Guidelines for accomplishment of event

Attend an international cultural event, performance or a guest speaker. After attending the event, write a one to two page journal entry, using the following questions as a guideline:

• State specifically what the event was and the venue.
• What new knowledge did you gain from the event?
• What most impressed you that perhaps changed a previous attitude or belief?
• Did the event present a universal theme that could attract any audience?
• Did this event encourage you to want to learn more about this particular culture, or perhaps other cultures and places?
• Did you experience any emotions during the event that took you by surprise?
• Were there any mannerisms, different patterns of interactions, idiomatic expressions that you noticed?
• Can you make a connection with this experience to your own culture?

Provide at least one the following: 

Event Contact Name: Arts and Entertainment section in the Post-Dispatch, Riverfront Times

Event Contact website URL: www.rftstl.com or www.stltoday.com

SCC Event Creator: Jane Zeiser

Estimated Time for full completion (include: making contact/appointment; attending activity; travel; and journal consideration and entry)  2 to 4 hours