I guess that as a high-school teacher, you will be able to set up your own syllabus. But at a college level,dealing with culture in a daily way seems to me pretty challenging. Perhaps you have some ideas you can share. I would be curious to have some reactions. As foreign language teachers, we need to think of our language classes as culture classes.
Culture is language and vice versa.
If we expect our students to learn the language of a people they are not familiar with, we need to provide them with some information on which to base the language. When I was in high school, my favorite part of my German classes were the sections about culture. I loved comparing and contrasting the cultures and imagining what it would be like to actually be part of that culture. When I studied in Germany for a year, I think I learned more about the language because I wanted to be able to understand the culture I was living in. In order to do that, I had to be able to communicate with the natives.