Local to Global enhances student capacity for intercultural understanding, empathy, and encourages skill development essential for respectful engagement within the culturally diverse communities within TRU and beyond. Students will reflect on the historical and ongoing struggle to recognize the rights of Indigenous peoples both locally and globally. They will explore the impact of national and international acts, charters, and declarations impact the Secwépemc people in the region; articulate how current cultural power dynamics are influenced by colonialism; and reflect on their own cultural orientations, preferences, and positionalities as one of many ways to experience and be in the world. Topics include intercultural dynamics, power and privilege, the ongoing impacts of colonization, reconciliation, critical allyship, responding to discrimination, stereotypes, and conflict resolution.
- Teacher: McLeanAmie