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