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Employment

Capstone Course
and Internship
Academic
advisers
Topic/Group-Specific
Health Courses Portfolios and students
Core Competency
Courses Community
Service learning partners,
Introductory students,
Courses and faculty
Cultural competency
introduced in overview
of profession and
total wellness ESG and mentoring
Cultural competence in Faculty
all areas of responsibility advisers and
students
Population and topic-specific E-lists/letters
cultural knowledge and skills
Culture-specific practice; also, serve Alumni and
as guest speakers for intro courses students
Continued support from faculty mentors
and student volunteers/interns

Curriculum components Integrated support Evaluation channels

FIGURE 9.1. Integrated Cultural Competence Curriculum ( IC - 3) Model.

courses be a mandated prerequisite to health topic or group - specific courses. Instead,
the model is designed as a conceptual guide for the application of competency - based
perspectives to specific health issues and populations.

For example, a student could learn in an introductory course that culture, ethnic-
ity, religion, and socialization influence the health status and practices of most popula-

tions (Spector, 2004). In competency - based courses the student could learn about
culture - related aspects of needs assessment and program planning, implementation,

and evaluation. In a group - specific course that focuses on “ health in traditional Asian
American communities, ” the student could be guided to apply the previously learned
concepts and health education skills in order to more fully understand and address in a
culturally sensitive manner such things as the cultural reasons for coining, a practice in
some traditional Asian communities of scraping the skin with a coin to release “ illness -
causing spirits ” (Spector, 2004). A student could then be placed in an internship site
where the experiential application of what has been learned produces a more refi ned
perspective.

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