Promoting Meaningful Encounters as a Way to Enhance Intercultural Competences

Abstract

This article aims at sharing an experience in which an Intercultural Competences based course was taught to university level students in a Colombian higher education institution. Topics such as minority groups, national identity and racism were included in the course syllabus in order to raise students´ awareness regarding the importance of interculturality.   Students´ posts and survey responses are shared in order to portray their perceptions regarding the course and its influence on the development of intercultural competences.