Interview: Student Reflection#2 on the UNSDG Renewable Assignments for "Across Borders, Across Cultures: A Quest for Health and Well-being"
Year
2025
Semester
Fall
Today's Date
12-1-2025
Description
This interview was the second recorded as part of the UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship to explore student perspectives on the renewable assignment utilized in the Fall 2025 Cross-Cultural Psychology class: Across Borders, Across Cultures: A Quest for Health and Well-Being.
- The interview focused on reviewing a multidisciplinary student assignment exploring cross-cultural perspectives on health and wellbeing, with Mariah Turner presenting her research on traditional medical practices and health disparities in minority communities.
- Mariah proposed a health initiative combining traditional and modern medical approaches, particularly for underserved populations, and discussed her findings on the intersection of cultural practices and mental health care.
- The discussion highlighted the importance of integrating both physical and spiritual health aspects in medical care, with emphasis on meeting community needs through education and awareness.
Course
SOP 3723
Professor
Grace White
Keywords
cross-cultural psychology, exercise science, mental health and well-being
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Accessibility Status
Closed captioning is available for the video.
STARS Citation
White, Grace and Turner, Mariah, "Interview: Student Reflection#2 on the UNSDG Renewable Assignments for "Across Borders, Across Cultures: A Quest for Health and Well-being"" (2025). UN SDG Open Pedagogy Faculty Fellowship: Renewable Assignments. 23.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/unsdg-openped/23
Notes
The assignments discussed in the interview were created during the 2025 session of the UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship in collaboration with Michelle Jung at Mesa Community College (Arizona).
"The Across Borders, Across Cultures: A Quest for Health and Well-being" portfolio assignment explored in this interview is a compilation of the three-part renewable SDG assignments which included:
These assignments are available as part of the UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship and are free to use, adopt, or amend under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Portions of the original UN SDG assignments discussed here were adjusted to meet the needs of the online course structure and number of students enrolled in the course for the Fall 2025 semester of Cross-Cultural Psychology at the University of Central Florida.