RUBRIC for Multi Culture Competency

Global Awareness

1 Effectively addresses significant issues in the natural human world based on articulating one's identity in a global context.

Knowledge

1 Articulates insights into own cultural rules and biases (e.g. seeking complexity; aware of how her/his experiences have shaped these rules, and how to recognize and respond to cultural biases, resulting in a shift in self-description.)

Perspective Taking

1 Evaluates and applies diverse perspectives to complex subjects within natural and human systems in the face of multiple and even conflicting positions (i.e. cultural, disciplinary, and ethical.)

Knowledge of Cultural Worldview Frameworks

1 Demonstrates sophisticated understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of another culture in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices.

Cultural Diversity

1 Adapts and applies a deep understanding of multiple worldviews, experiences, and power structures while initiating meaningful interaction with other cultures to address significant global problems.

Understanding Global Systems

1 Uses deep knowledge of the historic and contemporary role and differential effects of human organizations and actions on global systems to develop and advocate for informed, appropriate actions to solve complex problems in the human and natural worlds.

Attitudes

1 Asks simple or surface questions about other cultures.
Asks deeper questions about other cultures and seeks out answers to these questions. Asks complex questions about other cultures, seeks out and articulates answers to these questions that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.