In Spanish for Health professions, it would be important for students to understand the cultural beliefs of the Hispanic population regarding health care. 

Incorporating the cultures present in the classroom into the course's lesson planning has the potential to be beneficial to the students in the classroom, as it improves student engagement and they are better able to relate to the content meaning the students are more likely to retain the information being taught to them.

The introductory course brought awareness to the need for integration of international curriculum into the classroom in order to remain current and add marketability to students as they enter the workforce.

The world is global now.  Students need to understand different ways of doing things based on different cultures, not just the way US based companies operate.  It's important.  Most of our manufacturing is done oversees due to cost.  Technology has broken down barriers, but also made things more risky due to the world being connected.  

I am planning to have my students investigate the world more to learn about Graphic Design in other cultures. It is important for us to keep an open mind and understand that other cultures may view our designs a certain way.

This aligns with what we're exploring and finding in our research on what it means to be a problem solver. Good to see overlap, but it means that there's a lot of work to be done. 

Although I primarily teach American and Indiana history, I grapple with ways to place the material in national and international contexts as appropriate. For online courses, this frequently involves difficult to manage map displays.

I agree completely with the importance of developing student competencies within the four Domains, but the devil is in the details. Often tools are not readily available and more and more often, the available material no longer meets accessibility requirements.

Hopefully this course will provide some experience.

I really liked the information about cultural competencies being vital to our workforce.  A small thing to us like shaking hands out of order could make negotiations more difficult right off the bat, and you wouldn't even know that anything had happened.  Something to really consider!

My biggest takeaway is that employers are looking for a new type of employee—one who possesses global competencies in areas such as language, cultural awareness, communication, and business. As the world rapidly shifts toward a more multipolar and interconnected global economy, students must be prepared not only to compete but to excel in diverse international environments.

I learned about global competence and I'm excited to learn about how to start applying the competencies to my graphic design and photography classes.