Webinar
Digging into the Skills of Intercultural Empathy and Global Perspective-Taking
March 26, 2025
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Intercultural empathy and global perspective-taking are indispensable skills in today's interconnected world. Mastering them enables individuals to bridge cultural differences, foster inclusive environments, and navigate complex global challenges with insight and understanding. However, helping students develop these skills and assessing their progress can be challenging.
This webinar will unpack the complexities of intercultural empathy and global perspective-taking as defined by the AAC&U Intercultural Knowledge and Competence and Global Learning VALUE Rubrics. Facilitators will provide actionable insights into how these rubrics can serve as tools to define, teach, and measure these skills.
What You'll Gain
As a result of participating in this session, you will be able to
- describe intercultural empathy, global perspective-taking, and the relevance of both skills in your own professional and personal contexts;
- identify a specific experiential learning activity you can use or adapt to facilitate developing learners’ intercultural empathy and global perspective-taking; and
- select an appropriate method or tool for assessing intercultural empathy and global perspective-taking that aligns with your learning outcomes.
Presenters
Tatjana Babic Williams
Faculty Fellow with the Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment, and Research (CILMAR)Purdue University
Kwesi Ewoodzie
Managing DirectorCulture Beyond Borders, LLC
Moderator
Dawn Michele Whitehead
Vice President, Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and CareersAAC&U
About the Series
"Digging into the Skills of Intercultural Empathy and Global Perspective-Taking,” is the fifth in a seven-part series of AAC&U webinars presented in partnership with the Purdue University Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment, and Research (CILMAR). The series offers professional development on the facilitation and assessment of global learning and intercultural competence using the AAC&U VALUE rubrics for these essential learning outcomes.
To learn about and register for upcoming webinars in the series, or to view recordings of previous webinars, visit the series website.
If you have questions about the series, please contact Annette Benson at [email protected].
About the VALUE Rubrics
This unique professional development opportunity will use the Intercultural Knowledge and Competence and the Global Learning VALUE Rubrics to facilitate and assess student attainment of intercultural empathy and global perspective-taking.
Developed by AAC&U’s Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) initiative, these rubrics provide a framework to support the authentic assessment of student learning. The Intercultural Knowledge and Competence VALUE Rubric focuses on learners’ ability to interpret intercultural experiences from multiple perspectives and engage empathetically with diverse cultural groups. The Global Learning VALUE Rubric emphasizes the evaluation of complex global challenges by integrating diverse viewpoints and navigating conflicting positions.
Both rubrics articulate fundamental criteria for essential learning outcomes and include performance descriptors that reflect progressively more sophisticated levels of attainment. Together, they support a comprehensive approach to teaching and measuring the skills necessary for global engagement and intercultural understanding.