This collection provides activities, assessments, and other resources for exploring cultural humility, a concept originally introduced by Drs. Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia in 1998, detailing "a practice that incorporates a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-critique, to redressing the power imbalances in the patient-physician dynamic, and to developing mutually beneficial and nonpaternalistic clinical and advocacy partnerships with communities on behalf of individuals and defined populations" (p. 117). The term has been emphasized in more recent years as a complement and/or alternative to cultural competence.

This collection offers resources on bias, including a self-directed course information and intercultural learning activities to unpack bias. 

This collection includes activities, courses, and other resources exploring identity.

This collection provides self-directed training resources on embedding portable intercultural learning modules (PIM), small learning units focused on one or two elements of intercultural competence and/or diversity and inclusion, into your curriculum. In this case, the specific topic of intercultural competence is tricky communication, integrating the intercultural competency of communication.

PIM are turnkey solutions that address the needs of instructors or co-curricular leaders who don't see themselves as experts in these areas. PIM can be embedded within disciplinary course content, and multiple PIM can be integrated throughout a program of study to support learners' development of intercultural competence more systematically.

CILMAR offers all Portable Intercultural Modules (PIM) through Brightspace. The Tricky Communication PIM is also offered through Moodle and Canvas. 

This collection provides self-directed training resources on embedding portable intercultural learning modules (PIM), small learning units focused on one or two elements of intercultural competence and/or diversity and inclusion, into your curriculum. In this case, the specific topic of intercultural competence is teaming, integrating the intercultural competencies of communication and self and other awareness.

PIM are turnkey solutions that address the needs of instructors or co-curricular leaders who don't see themselves as experts in these areas. PIM can be embedded within disciplinary course content, and multiple PIM can be integrated throughout a program of study to support learners' development of intercultural competence more systematically.

CILMAR offers all Portable Intercultural Modules (PIM) through Brightspace. Teaming PIM are also offered through Moodle and Canvas. 

Kris Acheson-Clair is known for her scholarship on the meaning of silence. This Collection is a gathering of her work on the subject.

This collection includes activities and curriculum that can be embedded into the language-learning classroom, as well as research and publications on the topic.

This collection provides video resources to teach and discuss the intercultural development continuum stages. 

This collection provides activities, videos, and articles that pertain to proxemics, the study of how we use communicate with and organize around space.

This collection provides teamwork activities and assessments for multicultural teams to build team effectiveness.

This collection provides resources the detail the history of intercultural learning.

"Cultural Intelligence (CQ) is a specific form of intelligence focused on capabilities to grasp, reason and behave effectively in situations characterized by cultural diversity."  - Ang. et al (2007)

The Cultural Intelligence Assessment evaluates effectiveness in diverse situations by measuring capabilities in four distinct areas: CQ Drive, CQ Knowledge, CQ Strategy, and CQ Action.

In other words, CQ Assessments measures one's

• motivation to interact with people who are different from them
• knowledge about similarities and differences across cultures
• ability to strategize before an interaction with someone who is different from them
• ability to adapt and flex when interactions don’t go according to plan

This collection includes activities for setting intercultural learning goals, as well as articles and publications on goal-setting across cultures. 

This collection explores the concept of invitational rhetoric, with activities that encourage participants to practice invitational rhetoric, while also providing common critiques to the method.

This collection provides activities, resources, a free online course, and research publications on Microaggression. 

This collection includes activities that use artifacts, objects, and monuments to foster self- and other-awareness. 

This collection provides resources from Purdue CILMAR's Portable Intercultural Module entitled, "Tricky Communication."

Portable Intercultural Modules (PIM) are small learning units focused on one or two elements of intercultural competence and/or diversity and inclusion. They are turnkey solutions that address the needs of instructors or co-curricular leaders who don't see themselves as experts in these areas. PIM can be embedded within disciplinary course content, and multiple PIM can be integrated throughout a program of study to support learners' development of intercultural competence more systematically.

CILMAR offers all Portable Intercultural Modules (PIM) through Brightspace and a selection through Moodle and Canvas. Self-directed training is also available to support instructors who wish to use the selected PIM.

Learn more about PIM here.