How can SMEs demonstrate awareness of social responsibility, cultural diversity, and function both effectively and constructively from a global perspective? Please refer to the marking rubrics below as a guide in answering this part v.

Global Perspective refers to a person’s ability to demonstrate awareness of their own culture, cultural diversities, social responsibilities, global contexts, and ethical values.

Global Perspective (10%)	Excellent (8,9,10)	Good (6,7)	Fair (4,5)	Poor (1,2,3)
Demonstrate awareness of one’s own culture.	Articulate insights into own cultural rules and bias (e.g., seeking complexity; aware of how her/his experiences have shaped these rules, and how to recognize and respond to cultural biases, resulting in a shift in self-description)	Recognize new perspectives about own cultural rules and biases (e.g., not looking for sameness; comfortable with the complexities that new perspectives offer).	Identify own cultural rules and biases (e.g., with a strong preference for those rules shared with own cultural group and seeks the same in others).	Show minimal awareness of own cultural rules and biases (even those shared with own cultural groups(s)) (e.g., comfortable with identifying possible cultural differences with others).
Show an understanding of social responsibility.	Take informed and responsible action to address ethical, social, and environmental challenges in global systems and evaluates the local and broader consequences of individual and collective interventions.	Analyze the ethical, social, and environmental consequences of global systems and identifies a range of actions informed by one’s sense of personal and civic responsibility.	Explain the ethical, social, and environmental consequences of local and national decisions on global systems.	Identify basic ethical dimensions of some local or national decisions to have global impact.
Appreciate cultural diversity.	Demonstrate evidence of adjustment in own attitudes and beliefs because of working within and learning from diversity of communities and cultures. Promotes others’ engagement with diversity.	Reflect on how attitudes and beliefs are different from those of other cultures and communities. Exhibits curiosity about what can be learned from diversity of communities and cultures.	Have awareness that own attitudes and beliefs are different from those of other cultures and communities. Exhibits little curiosity about what can be learned from diversity of communities and cultures.	Express attitudes and beliefs as an individual, from a one-sided view. Is indifferent or resistant to what can be learned from diversity of communities and cultures.
Function effectively and constructively in a global environment and in a variety of contemporary global contexts.	Apply knowledge and skills to implement sophisticated, appropriate, and workable solutions to address complex global problems using interdisciplinary perspectives independently or with others.	Plan and evaluate more complex solutions to global challenges that are appropriate to their contexts using multiple disciplinary perspectives (such as cultural, historical, and scientific).	Formulate practical yet elementary solutions to global challenges that use at least two disciplinary perspectives (such as cultural, historical, and scientific).	Define global challenges in basic ways, including a limited number of perspectives and solutions.
Demonstrate a knowledge and respect of ethics and ethical standards.	Maintain a high level of ethical integrity by always prioritizing ethical values over self-interest.	Commit to ethical integrity by sometimes prioritizing ethical values over self-interest.	Consider ethical integrity over self-interest occasionally when facing ethical dilemmas.	Prioritize self-interest over ethical integrity when facing ethical dilemmas.

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