ABSTRACT
The short course in global citizenship is an accredited co-curricular course with two distinct but interlinked phases. In each of the phases there is a structured course component that has intercultural competence as a key outcome of the programme. The online collaboration with the University of Monterrey in Mexico in which students from both institutions do a set of assignments over a period of approximately four weeks. The common goal and theme enables the students to engage with, address, and cope with cultural differences in a way that ensures that they can work together successfully. The premise of the intercultural competence interventions is entrenched in Martin Luther King's statement that 'we must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools'. This in turn fits with the premise of the Global Citizenship programme that is deeply rooted in Roosevelt's famous quote, 'We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community'.
