COMM 1051 - Intercultural Communication

1. Definitions: communication, intercultural communication, culture
2. Concepts: connection between culture and communication, dimensions of difference, cultural generalizations
3. Culture-general theory: models, cultural-variability scales
4. Culture-specific analysis: description, differences, and comparisons.
5. Doing business across cultures: local, national, global levels
6. Crossing cultural boundaries: culture shock; images; the experience of tourists, expatriates, and refuges/immigrants
7. Culture-specific interactions
8. Intercultural relationships
9. World citizenship and contemporary global issues

1. describe how cultural identity shapes, and is shaped by, communication.
2. compare/contrast patterns of thought, value, belief and behavior (verbal and nonverbal) exhibited in different cultures.
3. define the role of perception and bias in intercultural communication interactions.
4. articulate the skills needed to manage various intercultural communication contexts.
5. communicate with people from cultural groups different from one’s own.
6. articulate one’s own cultural standpoint and how it affects communication, world view, and our roles as world citizens.
7. explain the need for intercultural communication competency in our global and ever-changing world.

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