People and Cultural Awareness Rubric

Includes how individuals have contributed to history, artistic movements, social values, cultural practices, politics, or belief systems and/or transformed or resisted the dominant culture.

Learning Outcome Exceeds Expectations Meets Expectations Approaches Expectations Does Not Meet Expectations
1) Identify how individuals and groups resist dominant cultural practices and/or define how groups exist, live, survive, and/ or thrive when they are not part of the dominant culture. Identifies sophisticated examples and evidence of what it means for individuals and groups to resist dominant cultural practices and/or define how groups exist, live, survive, and thrive when they are not part of the dominant culture. Offers adequate explanations and examples describing what it means for individuals and groups to resist dominant cultural practices and/or define how groups exist, live, survive, and thrive when they are not part of the dominant culture. Uses few appropriate explanations and examples when describing what it means for individuals and groups to resist dominant cultural practices and/or define how groups exist, live, survive, and thrive when they are not part of the dominant culture. Fails to provide appropriate explanations and examples when describing what it means for individuals and groups to resist dominant cultural practices and/or define how groups exist, live, survive, and thrive when they are not part of the dominant culture.
2) Describe the ways in which individuals, groups, or social institutions influence and/or come into conflict over systems of power associated with gender, bodily autonomy, race, ethnicity, class, ability, individual and intersecting identities, intersectionality, language, artistic expression, religion, and/or historical idealization. Describes, using substantial details and supporting evidence, the ways in which individuals, groups, or social institutions influence and/or come into conflict over systems of power associated with gender, bodily autonomy, race, ethnicity, class, ability, individual and intersecting identities, intersectionality, language, artistic expression, religion, and/or historical idealization. Uses adequate details and supporting evidence to describe the ways in which individuals, groups, or social institutions influence and/or come into conflict over systems of power associated with gender, bodily autonomy, race, ethnicity, class, ability, individual and intersecting identities, intersectionality, language, artistic expression, religion, and/or historical idealization. Uses limited details and supporting evidence to describe the ways in which individuals, groups, or social institutions influence and/or come into conflict over systems of power associated with gender, bodily autonomy, race, ethnicity, class, ability, individual and intersecting identities, intersectionality, language, artistic expression, religion, and/or historical idealization. Fails to describe or offer details and supporting evidence about the ways in which individuals, groups, or social institutions influence and/or come into conflict over systems of power associated with gender, bodily autonomy, race, ethnicity, class, ability, individual and intersecting identities, intersectionality, language, artistic expression, religion, and/or historical idealization.
3) Explain how particular groups have been impacted by specific historical, cultural, economic, ecological, environmental, political, and/or social actions. Thoroughly explains how particular groups have been impacted by specific historical, cultural, economic, ecological, environmental, political, and/or social actions. Adequately explains how particular groups have been impacted by specific historical, cultural, economic, ecological, environmental, political, and/or social actions. Provides a limited explanation that is incomplete or demonstrates issues of comprehending how particular groups have been impacted by specific historical, cultural, economic, ecological, environmental, political, and/or social actions. Fails to explain how particular groups have been impacted by specific historical, cultural, economic, ecological, environmental, political, and/or social actions.
4) Compare evidence of how diverse cultures and/or individuals with intersectionality or intersecting identities have been impacted by economic, historical, political, cultural, and/ or social dynamics. Offers a clear and sophisticated comparison of how diverse cultures and/or individuals with intersectionality or intersecting identities have been impacted by economic, historical, political, cultural, and/or social dynamics. Offers an adequate comparison of how diverse cultures and/or individuals with intersectionality or intersecting identities have been impacted by economic, historical, political, cultural, and/or social dynamics. Provides a limited comparison that is incomplete or demonstrates some issues in comprehending how diverse cultures and/or individuals with intersectionality or intersecting identities have been impacted by economic, historical, political, cultural, and/or social dynamics. Fails to compare how diverse cultures and/or individuals with intersectionality or intersecting identities have been impacted by economic, historical, political, cultural, and/or social dynamics.
5) Analyze the potential merits and/or limits of one's personal values, biases, behaviors, and attitudes to participate in cross-cultural interactions. Analyzes fully with sophistication and depth the potential merits and/or limits of one’s personal values, biases, behaviors, and attitudes to participate in cross-cultural interactions. Analyzes with adequate reasoning the potential merits and/or limits of one’s personal values, biases, behaviors, and attitudes to participate in cross-cultural interactions. Provides a limited analysis that is incomplete or demonstrates some issues with comprehension of the potential merits and/or limits of one’s personal values, biases, behaviors, and attitudes to participate in cross-cultural interactions. Fails to analyze or demonstrate an understanding of the potential merits and/or limits of one’s personal values, biases, behaviors, and attitudes to participate in cross-cultural interactions.
6) Evaluate the multiplicities of aesthetic and/or creative processes/products, theories, and/or philosophies represented in specified cultural contexts. Evaluates fully with sophistication and depth the multiplicities of aesthetic and/or creative processes/products, theories, and/or philosophies represented in specified cultural contexts. Evaluates with adequate coverage and sound reasoning the multiplicities of aesthetic and/or creative processes/products, theories, and/or philosophies represented in specified cultural contexts. Provides a limited evaluation that is incomplete or demonstrates some issues with comprehending the multiplicities of aesthetic and/or creative processes/products, theories, and/or philosophies represented in specified cultural contexts. Fails to evaluate or demonstrate a clear understanding of the multiplicities of aesthetic and/or creative processes/products, theories, and/or philosophies represented in specified cultural contexts.