Cultural Competency
This essential skills training focuses on key skills and competencies for WSU Extension professionals who want to reach more diverse audiences or serve existing audiences better. Workshops will include active learning and practical applications for individual or team programming.
WSU Extension Core Competency addressed in this essential skill area:
Cultural Understanding
- Understand the developmental nature of cultural competencies.
- Describe issues and concerns which arise when values, beliefs, and practices differ from those of the dominant culture.
- Recognize ways culture affects participation in extension programs and services.
Cultural Knowledge
- Develop familiarity with specific cultures, especially the ways in which they differ from one’s own.
- Use conceptual and theoretical models for understanding human culture.
- Identify appropriate cultural guides and build productive relationships with them.
Cultural Interaction
- Recognize factors impacting successful intercultural communication.
- Use concepts and theories of intercultural communication.
- Manage intercultural conflicts effectively.
- Interact productively and seek input and guidance from cultural partners.
- Form new programmatic partnerships across intercultural difference.
Cultural Sensitivity
- Recognize the impact of privilege, inequality and oppression in daily contexts.
- Identify historical and sociological influences on specific cultural interactions.
Outcomes for Cultural Competencies: Culturally Competent Professionals will:
- Engage in culturally diverse settings, initiatives and programs.
- Integrate cultural competencies in the planning, implementation and evaluation of programming.
- Practice strategies for successful intercultural communication in professional settings.
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