First impressions about class

I've just started with the August Intercession class today. First, I note that the Cross Cultural Awareness course tends to be more practical than the American Culture course that I followed the last summer. It seems that it focuses not only on the academic aspects of the student's life, but it also includes many other activities that they regularly practice out of the sphere of their purely academic life. Moreover, it seems that the main goal is to give students capacity or ability to communicate better with people that they may encounter in different places on campus as Johnson Commons, the Library, the Union, the IEP, etc.

Including these differences, the both courses although share something in common. They're essentially based on culture. "Culture" is the principal subject over which they're both shaped or conceived. Finally, American Culture and Cross Cultural Awareness are complementary courses.