CCE Cultural Immersion Rubric

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Full Name*

Email

Role*

Student
Faculty/Staff

Location of Immersion*

Include specific details such as city, state, country.

If stateside, what will be the target culture?

Group traveling with*

Be specific.

Expected Start Date*

Expected End Date*

1. Where will you stay during your immersive experience?*

Include as much detail as you can, considering the context or contexts.

5. Home stay with a local family
4. Locally run accommodation OR with an expat living in country, but not with a group of people from your culture; multicultural context
3. Locally run accommodation OR with an expat living in country, but with a group of people from your home culture
2. American hotel in the midst of the context
1. In a context that removes you from the local culture (far away from place of immersion)
0. Staying at home

2. How do you anticipate encountering local food?*

5. All meals will be local
4. Most meals will be local
3. About half of meals will be local (local = cultural or unfamiliar foods)
2. Mostly familiar foods
1. Essentially eating familiar foods (American chains abroad; chains from home)
0. No local food

3. How do you anticipate having interpersonal encounters with the local population?*

5. Multiple interpersonal interactions in local context throughout the day; regular interactions in a different language
4. Multiple interactions with people in context throughout the day; use of interpreters; occasional interactions in a different language
3. Several hours of interactions with the local population
2. Occasional interactions; many of your interactions will be with people from your home culture
1. Seeing people interact; most of your interactions will be with people from your home context
0. No interactions with locals

4. Knowing your cultural identity, how contrasting will the culture you will be encountering be from your own?*

5. Very different culture with many different values; different language
4. Different culture, but some elements may be familiar like language
3. Culture and/or language is familiar or may be in another language, but will have a lot of overlap with your culture.
2. Similar culture to your own; may have different cuisine and significant variations in vocabulary
1. A very similar culture to your cultural identity (i.e. similar demographic, but different location)
0. Same culture as your cultural identity

5. How do you anticipate encountering cultural elements?*

Things like arts, music, festivals, leisure, institutions, worship, way of life.

5. Numerous encounters
4. Significant number of encounters
3. Multiple encounters
2. Some encounters
1. Passing encounters
0. No encounters

6. How do you intend to get around when you are there?*

5. Local transportation like the people in the culture OR driving in a radically different style of driving
4. Local transportation, but possibly a different type from most people
3. Some local transportation and some insulation from the culture
2. Somewhat insulated from the culture, but may use some local forms of transportation
1. Transportation that somewhat insulates you from the culture
0. Identical to the form of transportation you currently use (i.e. your car)

Total Score

Scale

26 – 30: Excellent opportunity for meaningful, effective cultural immersion
22 – 25: Good representation of experiences and interactions for an effective cultural immersion experience
18 – 21: Adequate plan, consider adding additional intercultural opportunities for a deeper cultural immersion
0 – 17: Below threshold for a meaningful cultural immersion experience; not approved for CCE

Note: An approved group trip does not guarantee individual participant approval. The cultural immersion must be significantly different from the individual student’s culture.

CCE Cultural Immersion Rubric