Assignment 2: Reflective Journal

Related Course Outcome: Assignment 2 addresses the course outcome that students should: “recognize the sources of cultural identity and articulate how cultural identity influences communication situations, conversational style and perceptions of others.”

You will describe and analyze 3 recent (to this course) intercultural experiences in journal form. You should record a variety of experiences (professional, personal, academic, social, and so on) in which you are engaged in some type of multicultural experiences. The experiences may occur in the course of your professional, personal, academic, social lives. The experiences may initiated for the assignment, such as initiating a conversation with a person of a different culture, or attending a worship service of a religion different than your own –or can be based on authentic, non-scripted interactions that occur in the course of your life. We will define cultures/sub-cultures quite defined broadly for this assignment, including, but not limited to: race and ethnicity, religion, county of origin, disability status, geography, gender orientation, political membership, socioeconomic status and/or vocation or profession. These entries should reveal your understanding of competent communication behavior and demonstrate your ability to apply the concepts, principles, and techniques presented in the course. Verbal and nonverbal aspects of each l experience should be shared.

Each journal entry should be approximately one page in length, single-spaced, and should include the following information in an organized manner:

the date of the experience

a detailed description of the cultural experience (including where, who, what, how, and so on), with an emphasis on the verbal and nonverbal aspects of the episode

your purpose(s) and behavior as a listener

a descriptive evaluation, supported by specific examples, of your strengths and weaknesses as a culturally competent behavior

what you learned about your cultural competence

Students may also be assigned self-assessment surveys.

Provide a concluding summary section (1-3 pages) of what you learned from this assignment (reflections and surveys) concerning your strengths and weaknesses about your cultural competence.

Reflective Journal

This assignment requires you to write a reflective journal consisting of five (5) learning events.  The purpose of the journal is to show your developing concepts about leadership as they relate to the set text, recommended texts, lectures, guest lectures and stream readings.

a)     Three (3) of the five (5) learning events must relate to leadership concepts discussed in Ladkin (2010).  I suggest you focus on certain chapters that either resonate with, or are at odds with, your own reflections and practical experiences of leadership.  Ladkin’s book is philosophical and it is aimed at people like us who are grappling with what it means to enact leadership today.  Therefore it requires us to approach it with openness becoming engaged critically with the essential ideas she discusses.  This will require you to read beyond the text so that you more fully understand the ideas within it.  Ladkin offers references that enable you to read more widely.

b)     Two (2) of the five (5) learning events can relate to leadership concepts discussed in an academic journal article referred to in class.

c)     One (1) of these learning events must relate specifically to ethics and how it relates to governance and/or leadership.  The ethics component of this assignment is worth 10% of the final grade for this paper.  This is because business graduates should be able to identify and evaluate ethical dilemmas and provide reasoned alternatives for their resolution.

Your journal will be no more than 3500 words.  It is expected that you will write up many journal entries as the course progresses and carefully craft the best entries as learning events in your final journal.  Your journal will be marked on the rigour of your critique, the elegance of your writing and the depth of your personal responses.  Use APA 6th edition for your references.

Reflective Journal

This assignment requires you to write a reflective journal consisting of five (5) learning events.  The purpose of the journal is to show your developing concepts about leadership as they relate to the set text, recommended texts, lectures, guest lectures and stream readings.

a)     Three (3) of the five (5) learning events must relate to leadership concepts discussed in Ladkin (2010).  I suggest you focus on certain chapters that either resonate with, or are at odds with, your own reflections and practical experiences of leadership.  Ladkin’s book is philosophical and it is aimed at people like us who are grappling with what it means to enact leadership today.  Therefore it requires us to approach it with openness becoming engaged critically with the essential ideas she discusses.  This will require you to read beyond the text so that you more fully understand the ideas within it.  Ladkin offers references that enable you to read more widely.

b)     Two (2) of the five (5) learning events can relate to leadership concepts discussed in an academic journal article referred to in class.

c)     One (1) of these learning events must relate specifically to ethics and how it relates to governance and/or leadership.  The ethics component of this assignment is worth 10% of the final grade for this paper.  This is because business graduates should be able to identify and evaluate ethical dilemmas and provide reasoned alternatives for their resolution.

Your journal will be no more than 3500 words.  It is expected that you will write up many journal entries as the course progresses and carefully craft the best entries as learning events in your final journal.  Your journal will be marked on the rigour of your critique, the elegance of your writing and the depth of your personal responses.  Use APA 6th edition for your references.