values, politics, values, politics, communication styles, communication styles, communication styles, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and economy, or beliefs economy, or beliefs and economy, or beliefs and practices. and practices. practices. practices. Skills Interprets intercultural Recognizes intellectual Identifies components of Views the experience Empathy experience from the and emotional other cultural of others but does so perspectives of own and dimensions of more perspectives but through own cultural more than one than one worldview responds in all situations worldview. worldview and and sometimes uses with own worldview. demonstrates ability to more than one act in a supportive worldview in manner that recognizes interactions. the feelings of another cultural group. Skills Articulates a complex Recognizes and Identifies some cultural Has a minimal level of Verbal and understanding of participates in cultural differences in verbal and understanding of nonverbal cultural differences in differences in verbal nonverbal cultural differences in communication verbal and nonverbal and nonverbal communication and is verbal and nonverbal communication (e.g., communication and aware that communication; is demonstrates begins to negotiate a misunderstandings can unable to negotiate a understanding of the shared understanding occur based on those shared understanding. degree to which people based on those differences but is still use physical contact differences. unable to negotiate a while communicating in shared understanding. different cultures or use direct/indirect and explicit/implicit meanings) and is able to skillfully negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences. Attitudes Asks complex questions Asks deeper questions Asks simple or surface States minimal interest Curiosity about other cultures, about other cultures questions about other in learning more about seeks out and and seeks out answers cultures. other cultures. articulates answers to to these questions. these questions that reflect multiple cultural perspectives. Attitudes Initiates and develops Begins to initiate and Expresses openness to Receptive to Openness interactions with develop interactions most, if not all, interacting with culturally different with culturally different interactions with culturally different others. Suspends others. Begins to culturally different others. Has difficulty judgment in valuing suspend judgment in others. Has difficulty suspending any her/his interactions with valuing her/his suspending any judgment in her/his culturally different interactions with judgment in her/his interactions with others. culturally different interactions with culturally different others. culturally different others, but is unaware others, and is aware of of own judgment. own judgment and expresses a willingness to change.
values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices. values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices. communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices. communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices. Skills Empathy Interprets intercultural experience from the perspectives of own and more than one worldview and demonstrates ability to act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of another cultural group. Recognizes intellectual and emotional dimensions of more than one worldview and sometimes uses more than one worldview in interactions. Identifies components of other cultural perspectives but responds in all situations with own worldview. Views the experience of others but does so through own cultural worldview. Skills Verbal and nonverbal communication Articulates a complex understanding of cultural differences in verbal and nonverbal communication (e.g., demonstrates understanding of the degree to which people use physical contact while communicating in different cultures or use direct/indirect and explicit/implicit meanings) and is able to skillfully negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences. Recognizes and participates in cultural differences in verbal and nonverbal communication and begins to negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences. Identifies some cultural differences in verbal and nonverbal communication and is aware that misunderstandings can occur based on those differences but is still unable to negotiate a shared understanding. Has a minimal level of understanding of cultural differences in verbal and nonverbal communication; is unable to negotiate a shared understanding. Attitudes Curiosity Asks complex questions about other cultures, seeks out and articulates answers to these questions that reflect multiple cultural perspectives. Asks deeper questions about other cultures and seeks out answers to these questions. Asks simple or surface questions about other cultures. States minimal interest in learning more about other cultures. Attitudes Openness Initiates and develops interactions with culturally different others. Suspends judgment in valuing her/his interactions with culturally different others. Begins to initiate and develop interactions with culturally different others. Begins to suspend judgment in valuing her/his interactions with culturally different others. Expresses openness to most, if not all, interactions with culturally different others. Has difficulty suspending any judgment in her/his interactions with culturally different others, and is aware of own judgment and expresses a willingness to change. Receptive to interacting with culturally different others. Has difficulty suspending any judgment in her/his interactions with culturally different others, but is unaware of own judgment.