Are you looking to further enhance your intercultural awareness and an opportunity to meet students from various cultural backgrounds? If so, you might be interested in these stand-alone cultural workshops which are free and open to all Kent students.
Workshops will be delivered in-person at the Canterbury Campus. If you need assistance, please email internationalprogrammes@kent.ac.uk.
Workshop 1: Cultural Knowledge and Identity – EWLA3340
Wednesday 2 Feb, 14.00-15.30.
Workshop 2: Considerations of Intercultural Communication – EWLA3350
Wednesday 9 Feb, 14.00-15.30.
Workshop 3: Barriers to Intercultural Communication; Tools & Strategies – EWLA3360
Wednesday 16 Feb, 14.00-15.30.
Workshop 4: Enhancing cultural awareness – EWLA3370
Wednesday 23 Feb, 14.00-15.30.
Feedback from students who have previously attended a Talking Cultures workshops
Laura Prats Cardona: “Personally, my favourite one [workshop] was the culture workshop, where we were put in groups of more or less ten people and each of us discussed the prejudices on our cultures, what we believed to be culture (which is so much more than just food music or clothes) and what culture we identified ourselves with. It was interesting to see how people who had travelled or moved countries during their childhood (myself included) identified with two or more cultures”.
Bilal Hussain: “Internationalisation and global engagement programmes exemplified by GOLD, such as the talking cultures workshops, have helped fuel this new emerging environment of cultural pride and expression for us all. Going back to the previous point about travelling through the people you meet; internationalisation programmes have become even more important in keeping this momentum going in the current COVID climate where we can’t travel. This only amplifies just how important it is in forging global and diverse relationships so that we can see the world through people. Most importantly however, it improves our respect and awareness of different perspectives from different parts of the world which helps us to build a respectful and tolerant society where we can celebrate each other and forge togetherness rather than divisions”.