General Concepts

* “Cultura supports a new methodology for learning about another culture --a methodology which is not based upon being "taught" what [the native culture and the target culture] are like or which does not reduce culture to a series of facts about the other country.”

• * “Cultura supports a new methodology for learning about another culture --a methodology which is not based upon being "taught" what [the native culture and the target culture] are like or which does not reduce culture to a series of facts about the other country.”

• * “Developing understanding of another culture is a process which involves a series of stages that take the intercultural learner along a journey of discovery and reflection.”

• An Interesting Project

• Cultura / M.I.T.: http://cultura.mit.edu

Cultura / M.I.T.: http://cultura.mit.edu

• * Work on specific documents (e.g., answer questionnaires and analyze the responses, research national surveys, watch films, analyze ads, read articles)

• An Interesting Project

• * Come back to class and share their findings, and make connections from one document to the other, thus generating whole class discussions.

• * In and outside of class, on their own and in groups, students do the following tasks :

• Cultura / M.I.T.: http://cultura.mit.edu

Cultura / M.I.T.: http://cultura.mit.edu

• Cultura / M.I.T.: http://cultura.mit.edu

• * Come back to class with a selection of comments by their peers abroad which are then shared and discussed.

• * Go back to the website to explore other materials.

• * Go onto on-line forums, post their comments, make hypotheses, ask questions based on their individual observations and the class discussions

• An Interesting Project