ABSTRACT
Spelman's quality enhancement plan (QEP), Developing Intercultural Competence, also known as Spelman Going Global!, was selected and developed through a broad-based process by campus stakeholders: faculty, senior administration, staff, students, and the board of trustees. It seeks to enhance student learning through global travel experiences connected to the college's liberal arts curriculum. The QEP initiative reaffirms the college's mission and commitment to engage students with 'the many cultures of the world'. To demonstrate students' intercultural competence, Spelman has developed two learning outcomes across study-travel programmes: knowledge component and attitude component. These two learning outcomes were developed with the theoretical guidance provided by the Deardorff Process Model of Intercultural Competence. This model recognises that intercultural competence is based on attitudes, knowledge, and skills that the individual possesses and outcomes that are expressed in interactions. Spelman has enhanced its curriculum internationalisation especially because students who have taken courses infused with international topics are likely to demonstrate a higher level of intercultural competence.
