Promo Online Course: Business Transformation for Cultural Appreciation, Not Appropriation

Are you ready to test your knowledge of Cultural Appropriation versus Cultural Appreciation? Do you know which brands who are harming versus partnering with cultural communities? Enroll today! April 8th kicks off my online asynchronous course with CalArts Extended Studies: Business Transformation for Cultual Appreciation, Not Appropriation

ABOUT THE COURSE
Frequently, companies and individuals are criticized for culturally appropriating (i.e. taking without consent) the designs, motifs, symbols, objects, and names of cultural communities such as those of Indigenous, Black, or Asian communities. How might companies and individuals stop the taking without consent of the objects and/or practices of cultural communities? How might we all learn how to cultivate relationships with cultural communities in order to build business practices with cultural appreciation? This course will have readings, videos, exercises, and applications organized into five modules.

MODULES/ENGAGEMENT
(Complete one module each week for five weeks, each module takes about 1 hour.)

Module 1: Colonization and the Way of Cultural Appropriation
Module 2: Companies Practicing Cultural Appreciation
Module 3: Respectful Relations with cultural Communities
Module 4: Authentic Values, Objects, and Stories
Module 5: Changing Organizations to Share the Wealth

LEARNER OUTCOMES
Upon the successful completion, participants will have gained the skills to:
-- Identify cultural appropriation and develop ways to avoid it
-- Identify cultural appreciation and develop ways to practice it
-- Evaluate mindsets and policies that build respectful relationships with cultural communities
-- Determine the internal and external organizational changes required to work respectfully with cultural communities
-- Create the legal and financial structures required to support partnerships with cultural communities

COSTS AND ENROLLMENT
The microcredential costs $600 USD for the five weeks.

Enroll today at https://extendedstudies.calarts.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=1542709&selectedProgramAreaId=1529901&selectedProgramStreamId=1543365