Abstract

• Rationale:
  1. Contemporary research findings indicate that students may not develop an intercultural-global citizenship identity without pedagogical intervention.


• Aim:
  1. To support the University’s desire to cultivate global citizenship and prosocial values, this project would center on the revision and evaluation of Intercultural communication and engagement abroad, a fully online, credit-bearing General Education course for international exchange students.


• Approach: This study would involve:
  1. the revamping of the course, including the introduction of an intercultural-global citizenship project (videotaped in the host environment and debriefed online);
  2. the pre-course piloting of the Global citizenship scale and other materials (e.g., interview protocols, rubrics) that would be used to document and assess the participants’ emergent global citizenship and intercultural competence;
  3. a systematic, mixed-method review of two sections of the online course (2018-19).


• Outcomes:
  1. Development/refinement of an experiential pedagogy and eLearning materials/practices that facilitate the cultivation and assessment of the global citizenship and intercultural competence of study abroad students;
  2. Concrete suggestions for the implementation and assessment of similar initiatives for non-mobile students at CUHK; and
  3. Broader promotion of intercultural-global citizenship through CUHK’s Annual Study Abroad Writing Contest, and valuable groundwork for a University-wide Global Citizenship Video Competition.