MULTICULTURAL PROJECTS

During the semester it is highly recommended that you enroll in one of the many multicultural projects organized by IÉSEG. This is a great opportunity for students to integrate the School, meet interesting people, and discover French culture and meet students from every continent!

You can choose from a wide range of projects: gastronomy from all over the world, games, drama, dance, photos expo, music, radio etc. Please note that there are limited places per project and that you must register online.

You can visit «Le Petit Journal» to see what last year’s students have done:

> «Le Petit Journal» Facebook page

> «Le Petit Journal» on Instagram

IÉSEG is an international School that is in the process of becoming an intercultural School. This process involves classes and training for everyone, both students and staff. The aim of this training and of the classes is to develop cultural knowledge and intelligence that will lead to culturally intelligent behaviour among all the members of the School.

Part of this process is the Diversity Passport that all the Bachelor’s students must undertake. This involves a compulsory Understanding Cultural Diversity module in Year 1 and an International PEER Exchange activity in Year 2. This is where YOU come in.

The first meeting will be a social meeting to get to know each other, the second meeting will involve sharing some kind of cultural activity and the final meeting will involve you and the French student reflecting together about your interaction. Of course, we hope that many of you will meet a lot more than three times over the semester.

For the French students to validate their Diversity Passport, they must post a short video about the first two meetings. Of course, you are very welcome to participate in these videos. For the final meeting and reflection you will be required to participate in the video to share your feelings about the experience. Some of you will decide to do the intensive course on intercultural communication called “Culture Matters! Building Blocks of Intercultural Communication”. If you do this course, you could also do the Cultural Diversity Badge. This is the equivalent of the Cultural Diversity Passport for our international exchange students. If you decide to do this, you will have to make videos based on your meetings with your French peer and you will get points for these videos.

More detailed information and the timeline will be provided when you arrive in France.

Prof. Grant DOUGLAS Track Coordinator Senior Professor of Practice g.douglas@ieseg.fr