This chapter explores emotional intelligence as the glue that binds people together regardless of cultural differences.

This chapter explores international students' perspectives of boundaries in the American graduate-level classroom, specifically considering the culturally based essence of boundaries. The authors focus on graduate-level Japanese international students. This population is particularly helpful in their consideration of boundaries because research…

Intercultural communication focuses on understanding the relationship between culture and communication. The goal of such understanding is to assist students in developing awareness, competency, and sensitivity in communicating with persons who have cultural backgrounds (and perspectives) different from their own, or what Young Yun Kim (2001)…

In this chapter, critical race and expectancy violation theories are used to deconstruct students' resistance to a female faculty member of color, a Muslim Arab American who wears the traditional Islamic cover. The author provides a narrative of her teaching experience and some techniques she has used to face such resistance.

Four primary factors are relevant to social and cultural diversity in the college classroom: students, teachers, course content, and teaching methods. Faculty can use understanding of these factors and their interrelationships to facilitate learning in an increasingly multicultural environment. (MSE)