Culture Bump™: A Toolkit for Culture & Communication from Books and Boxes to Digital

In a time of increased need for digital support in internationalizing curriculum and acquiring global skills, the Culture Bump™ Approach is an idea whose time has come. This paper is the adaptation of a presentation at the 2020 Spring Phi Beta Delta 34th Annual International Conference that described the three stages involved in the tool's evolution: creation of a face-to-face cross cultural course at the University of Houston in 1978, its appearance as a multi-media boxed Toolkit in 2004, and now an online course at Auburn University in 2020. The authors describe the changes in each stage that contributed to the effectiveness of the course as well as the explicit changes that were necessary to move from face-to-face training onto a fully digital platform. Finally, they provide specific examples of how online access to "Culture Bump™: A Toolkit for Culture & Communication" can be a resource for faculty members in various disciplines to teach not only cultural and communication skills but secondary skills of self reflection, evaluation, analysis, synthesis, detachment and emotional intelligence.