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Intercultural Competence Workshops for Research Postgraduate Students

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Overview:

As a postgraduate student at UST, communicating effectively with individuals who come from different cultural backgrounds is essential for your academic success and future career development. Teaching cross-cultural students in your classroom gives you ideal opportunities to interact with culturally diverse individuals, but it also requires you to build up foundation in intercultural concepts and identify ways to communicate effectively with cross-cultural audiences.

Community For Enhancing Intercultural Learning Experiences - Drop-in meeting 2023

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Members of this Community and the wider University community are invited to drop in to touch base and discuss the activities of this group.

This Community has been in existence since September 2020. The Community’s mission is: To contribute to and innovate existing structures in order to foster understanding and inclusiveness and enhance students’ intercultural learning experiences.

These are specific objectives that the Community has been working towards:

Diversity = Strength: Film Festival & Student Forum

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This film festival and student forum, organised by the University’s Community for Enhancing Intercultural Learning Experiences, will showcase Hong Kong’s diversity and the power of multiple points of view. Five films will be shown over a two-week period. Special guests will be invited to speak at the different film screenings. At the half-day forum following the screenings, we will explore the themes of the films and what diversity means to us as individuals and a society.

Community for Enhancing Intercultural Learning Experiences: Creating Inclusiveness in Materials and Learning Facilitation

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THE SESSION

When preparing materials for students, instructors may often find themselves focusing primarily on the subject content. Much less attention tends to be given to how pedagogy includes or excludes different groups that our students represent. Nevertheless, it is important for educators to be sensitive to the diverse backgrounds of learners in their classrooms and society at large.

Community For Enhancing Intercultural Learning Experiences

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THE SESSION

This Community supports and promotes the efforts of faculty and staff to enhance the intercultural learning experiences and competence of students at HKUST. Findings of a survey of UG students regarding their intercultural learning experiences (conducted in 2017), as well as those from a study of faculty and staff and their understanding of student expectations of these experiences (conducted in 2019) indicate a need for attention to these issues.

Community for Enhancing Intercultural Learning Experiences: Student Panel Discussion and Faculty/Staff Forum – What does diversity and inclusiveness mean to you?

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THE SESSION

Our goal is to embrace and value differences, to learn from each other, and to foster a mindset of diversity that promotes inclusiveness, collegiality, and respect.’ (HKUST Strategic Plan 2021-2028)

This forum will bring together students from across the University to discuss the importance of this goal, how it is addressed and what more might be done to achieve it.

These HKUST students will take part in the discussion:

CoP: Community For Enhancing Intercultural Learning Experiences

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THE COMMUNITY

This Community will support and promote the efforts of faculty and staff to enhance the intercultural learning experiences and competence of students at HKUST. Findings of a survey of UG students regarding their intercultural learning experiences (conducted in 2017), as well as those from a study of faculty and staff and their understanding of student expectations of these experiences (conducted in 2019) indicate a need for attention to these issues.

Inaugural Meeting CoP to Enhance Students’ Intercultural Learning Experience and Competence

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THE COMMUNITY

This Community will support and promote the efforts of faculty and staff to enhance the intercultural learning experiences and competence of students at HKUST.  

Findings of a survey of UG students regarding their intercultural learning experiences (conducted in 2017), as well as those from a study of faculty and staff and their understanding of student expectations of these experiences (conducted in 2019) indicate a need for attention to these issues.