Intercultural communication

obowiązkowe

studia drugiego stopnia

Master of Liberal Arts

semestr 1

studia stacjonarne

profil akademicki

obowiązkowe

Realizowany w sali

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties:

total number of ECTS = 3

1 ects = 30h in class

0,5 ects = 15 h for consultations

1,5 ects = 45 h for preparation for class

Course description

The course in Intercultural Communication develops students’ awareness of differences and peculiarities in communication patterns in various cultural and national contexts. It makes them aware of what is acceptable and what is offensive in a given culture and its public discourse. It gives them practice in co-operating with foreigners and reflecting about cultural diversity.

Course objective

- raising students' awareness of characteristics of intercultural communication

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Course content:

Bussines NLP skills for influence, persuasion and effective communication

The 4Cs: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication and Collaboration in Schools

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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity:

power point presentations, group discussion, pair-work activities, individual reflective activities, report writing; ICT tools - MS Teams, moodle.uni.opole.pl

Reading list

Riding the Waves of Culture, Understanding Diversity in Global Business, Fons Trompenaars, Charles Hampden-Turner, 2012.

Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures

Gert Jan Hofstede, Paul B. Pedersen, Geert H. Hofstede

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2002.

Supplementary reading

Cultures and Organizations : Software for the Mind: Software for the Mind

Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, Mcgraw-hill,2004

Hoffman, E. Lost in Translation. Harmons 1990.

Jandt, F.E. Intercultural Communication. An introduction 2000.

Learning outcomes acc to PRK 2019

Knowledge:

Students know and understand

1. relations between language and society and its cultures in an integrated system of dependencies and influence (k_W02/P7S_WG)

2. differences in stylistic conventions of linguistic communication and various rhetorical traditions (across cultures) (k_W03/P7S_WG)

Skills

Students can

3. formulate and test hypotheses related to appropriate language uses as well as simple research problems, particularly with interdisciplinary approaches (k_U06/P7S_UW)

4. apply a normative cultural paradigm in order to explain and solve a selected problem and relate the solution to a particular category of cultural relations (k_U10/P7S_UW)

Social competences

Students are ready to

5. critically self-assess one’s own linguistic knowledge and communicative skills and strive to self-improve (k_K01/P7S_KK)

6. take account of and respect cultural differences and diverging opinions in the professional, academic and public sphere (k_K09/P7S_KO)

Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes

1. Active class participation - up to 70% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,4,6)

2. Individual presentation followed by discussion - 30% of the final grade (outcome 3,5,6)

Criteria of evaluation:

60% = 3 (pass)

80% = 4

100% = 5