Cultural diversity is all about appreciating that society is made up of many different groups with different interests, skills, talents, and needs. It also means that recognizing that people in society can have differing religious beliefs and sexual orientations to you. Intercultural translation ties that in to ensure that the message (without judgement, bias, etc.) gets across accurately and as intentended.
The course itself focused and covered topics of relevance to interculutral translation such as ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity, cognitive bias, diversity training, cultural competence, and more. With this well-balanced syllabus as a baseline, I was able to better comprehend how intercultural skills play an important part of a translator's job. Intercultural communication requires a balance between personal identity and collective identity.
In my opinion, the most interesting projects were the three optional projects I chose. The first one being forensic anthropology. By having the freedom to choose projects that drew my attention, I found myself interacting in a more active way with the content. The same goes for the assignment where images were to be analyzed and finally, finding intercultural competence in a song. These topics might be loosely related to intercultural translation at first glance but upon deeper inspection, thicker ties are to be found in correlation.
As for my suggestions on how to better the class and my own learning, I believe finding ways to make the class slightly more interactive would improve the course as a whole. Because there was so much content to look over throughout these four months, at times it felt daunting to have a project every single week. Maybe spacing them out or reducing the number of projects and finding other activities to fill in between (interactive quizzes for example) would slightly reduce stress and increase participation.