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During the course, you will need to complete a Cultural Immersion Project where you will need to engage and interact in a cultural experience outside which you identify.
One of the first steps is to find a cultural event, religious service, celebration, activist event, seminar, or workshop to attend. This page will help you with how to find an event or other opportunity to attend, as well as resources that can help you find an event, do preliminary research on the group including to communicate with members of the group, and ultimately help you write your paper.
Finding a Cultural Event: To find a cultural event, it is suggested to look online in your community or local areas to find lists of diversity or cultural events. Contacting an office of tourism or community group organizations could also provide information to identify a cultural event.
Finding a Religious Service or Celebration: To find a religious service or celebration, you can search online for religious organizations of interest and contact them. They will inform you as to what you should know and how you can obtain an informative experience.
Finding a Political or Activist Event: To find a political or activist event, contact the political or activist organization and ask about events in your community.
Interactive Seminar or Workshop Relevant to Your Group: Community centers or group organizations often hold seminars or workshops. To find a seminar or workshop, you can contact them to see what seminars or workshops they are offering or what they know about.
Finding some preliminary research on your group of interest is important to do for this project. The library has an abundance of resources that can help you with conducting this research, and the information here will help you to find it.
Logging Into the Library
To find the most of the resources that the library has available, it is important to log into the library to authenticate as a DMU student. To do this, from the library web page, click on the Library Log-In link from the library's website.
Here is a tutorial on how to log into the library.
Searching for Materials in the Catalog
The best way to start to find preliminary materials on a subject is through searching through the course catalog. This tutorial explains how to run basic searches.
For additional videos/tutorials, please visit our website at https://library.divinemercy.edu/tutorials.
Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery
Because we realize that there may be materials you need for your studies that are not available here in our library, we offer interlibrary loan (ILL) services. Interlibrary loan (ILL) is a cooperative service between libraries. The following table shows what you as a Counseling student can obtain through ILL.
| Physical items, print books, owned by the Thelen Library | Physical items held by other libraries, not owned by the Thelen Library | Articles, Books Chapters (these items are provided electronically and do not need to be returned) |
| Physical items may be mailed to those individuals residing in the United States, with the exception of Hawaii and Alaska | No | Yes |
For more information, please contact the library at library@divinemercy.edu.
These are just a few of the many resources that could be utilized before your immersion experience and when you are writing your paper.
Books
Journals
