Identity Perspectives Development Through Education Abroad Practices, Curricula, and Activities

Thursday, June 2, 2022

9:30 AM – 10:20 AM MDT

Location: Room 601/603

Education abroad fosters critical thinking for self-confidence and intellectual courage. Presenters discuss training, curricula, predeparture preparation, and on-site engagement activities. Explore how to optimize the experience for underrepresented students by focusing on career development opportunities and identity from a global perspective.

Learning Objectives:

Demonstrate tools to structure a predeparture orientation that highlights the international experience with topics in social justice and identity.
Define stakeholders, curricular offerings, and activity preparation and selection that are coherent with equity, diversity, and inclusion practices.
Demonstrate specific coping strategies for encountering discrimination and navigating how to stay true to the intersectionality of identity while discovering new self-awareness, expression, and experience in the education abroad setting.
Conduct brainstorming activities for the audience to evaluate each planning stage of curricular and activity planning for underrepresented students.

Chair and Presenter(s)

Alejandra Barahona, PhD, M.B.A.

Director of International Programs & Sustainability Studies
Universidad Veritas

Presenter(s)

Danielle Powell, M.A., M.Div.

Professor, Communication Studies
Skyline College
Helen Julia Temple, PhD

Academic Faculty Member
Universidad Veritas