Module 11: Intercultural Communication
Ioannis Karras
- Enable understanding of the notions of culture and communication and their interrelationship
- Introduce the notions of cultural dimensions and the way they help us understand cultural characteristics
- Promote critical reflection on issues pertaining to cultural stereotypes, perceptions, racism as barriers to Intercultural Communication
- Analyze the characteristics of verbal and non-verbal communication in culturally and linguistically diverse environments
- Define a framework for the cultivation and development of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC)
- Identify the differences in scope between western and non-western approaches to intercultural conflict
- Establish intercultural communication coping strategies in a cultural heritage context
- Recognize intercultural communication as an ethical process
- Consider the challenges of intercultural communication in a global society
- Enable understanding of the notions of culture and communication and their interrelationship
- Introduce the notions of cultural dimensions and the way they help us understand cultural characteristics
- Promote critical reflection on issues pertaining to cultural stereotypes, perceptions, racism as barriers to Intercultural Communication
- Analyze the characteristics of verbal and non-verbal communication in culturally and linguistically diverse environments
- Define a framework for the cultivation and development of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC)
- Identify the differences in scope between western and non-western approaches to intercultural conflict
- Establish intercultural communication coping strategies in a cultural heritage context
- Recognize intercultural communication as an ethical process
- Consider the challenges of intercultural communication in a global society
- Enable understanding of the notions of culture and communication and their interrelationship
- Introduce the notions of cultural dimensions and the way they help us understand cultural characteristics
- Promote critical reflection on issues pertaining to cultural stereotypes, perceptions, racism as barriers to Intercultural Communication
- Analyze the characteristics of verbal and non-verbal communication in culturally and linguistically diverse environments
- Define a framework for the cultivation and development of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC)
- Identify the differences in scope between western and non-western approaches to intercultural conflict
- Establish intercultural communication coping strategies in a cultural heritage context
- Recognize intercultural communication as an ethical process
- Consider the challenges of intercultural communication in a global society
Syllabus
Course Objectives/Goals
Upon completion of the Course, students should be able to:
CO1. Deal with an intercultural communication phenomenon in terms of current models and theories and distinguish between cultural, institutional, organizational, and communicational aspects of a problem that falls within the territorial scope of intercultural communication.
CO2. Detect and estimate the roles of context and power in studying intercultural communication.
CO3. Recognize the complexity of communication in an intercultural communication exchange.
CO4. Formulate a research question in the field of intercultural communication in (international) organizations and link it to current research and advanced scholarship.
CO4. Demonstrate ability to communicate with people who exhibit a different worldview, value system, and communicative style.
CO5. Reflect upon their own learning process and develop their intercultural competencies.
CO6. Critically understand the importance of the mediation of conflicts over the management and meaning of heritage.
Instructional Methods
The course is designed to develop different parts of the learning process, including asynchronous video recorded lectures, discussions on the online platform for specific and topical topics, developing new ideas, presenting, and solving questions and problems, and self-assessment exercises at the end of each module.
The instructor may upload notes, interactive presentations, quizzes, announcements, as well as any other additional multi-media material (videos, news reports, images, interviews, a/v documentation) on the Course’s webpage, which can be found at the electronic used by Ionian University. Moreover, students are required to use the discussion forum in order to communicate and interact with each other. Please note that, other than written text, your responses can include: hyperlinks related to the topic of discussion, video or other audiovisual material, self-recorded audio or video responses, questionnaires and polls, or, any other interactive resource. Students are advised to visit the platform on a regular basis in order to gain access to any newly uploaded educational material, since the above comprise a virtual learning environment for the Course.
Assessment Methods
The overall academic performance of students is based on the assessment of a written assignment, on a formative assessment, their performance in the final exams and the final assignment. A passing mark in the mid-term assignment is not a prerequisite for his/her participation in the final exams. The final grade awarded to each student is the sum of the grades awarded for the assignment and the final exams. Both the assignments and the final exams are marked in the scale 0 (complete failure) to 100 (absolute success). In order to get a passing mark in the Course, a student must receive a passing mark in the final exams. In a nutshell:
- The grade awarded for the assignment represents the 20% of the Course’s final grade.
- The grade awarded for the formative assessment activities represents the 20% of the Course’s final grade
- The grade awarded for the final exams represents the 60% of the Course’s final grade.
- In order to get an overall passing mark, a student must be graded with at least 50/100 in the final exams.
- Final assignment.
Bibliography
- Avrami E. C., Macdonald S., Mason R., & Myers D. (Eds.). (2019). Values in heritage management: Emerging approaches and research directions. Getty Conservation Institute.
- Dai, X., & Chen, G.-M. (Eds.). (2017). Conflict management and intercultural communication: The art of intercultural harmony (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315266916
- Jackson, J. (2014). Introducing language and intercultural communication (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315848938
- Jeong H.-W. (2008). Understanding conflict and conflict analysis. SAGE.
- Karras, I. (2020). The culture and communication interface. Εκδόσεις Δίαυλος.
- Liu, S., Volcic, Z., & Gallois, C. (2019). Introducing intercultural communication: Global cultures and contexts (3rd ed.). Sage.
- Martin, J.N., & Nakayama, T.K. (2010). Intercultural communication in contexts (5th ed.). McGraw Hill.
- Piller, I. (2017). Intercultural Communication: A critical introduction (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
- Samovar, L. A. Porter, R. E., & McDaniel, E. R. (2014). Intercultural communication: a reader(14th ed.). Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Upon completion of the Course, students should be able to:
CO1. Deal with an intercultural communication phenomenon in terms of current models and theories and distinguish between cultural, institutional, organizational, and communicational aspects of a problem that falls within the territorial scope of intercultural communication.
CO2. Detect and estimate the roles of context and power in studying intercultural communication.
CO3. Recognize the complexity of communication in an intercultural communication exchange.
CO4. Formulate a research question in the field of intercultural communication in (international) organizations and link it to current research and advanced scholarship.
CO4. Demonstrate ability to communicate with people who exhibit a different worldview, value system, and communicative style.
CO5. Reflect upon their own learning process and develop their intercultural competencies.
CO6. Critically understand the importance of the mediation of conflicts over the management and meaning of heritage.
The course is designed to develop different parts of the learning process, including asynchronous video recorded lectures, discussions on the online platform for specific and topical topics, developing new ideas, presenting, and solving questions and problems, and self-assessment exercises at the end of each module.
The instructor may upload notes, interactive presentations, quizzes, announcements, as well as any other additional multi-media material (videos, news reports, images, interviews, a/v documentation) on the Course’s webpage, which can be found at the electronic used by Ionian University. Moreover, students are required to use the discussion forum in order to communicate and interact with each other. Please note that, other than written text, your responses can include: hyperlinks related to the topic of discussion, video or other audiovisual material, self-recorded audio or video responses, questionnaires and polls, or, any other interactive resource. Students are advised to visit the platform on a regular basis in order to gain access to any newly uploaded educational material, since the above comprise a virtual learning environment for the Course.
The overall academic performance of students is based on the assessment of a written assignment, on a formative assessment, their performance in the final exams and the final assignment. A passing mark in the mid-term assignment is not a prerequisite for his/her participation in the final exams. The final grade awarded to each student is the sum of the grades awarded for the assignment and the final exams. Both the assignments and the final exams are marked in the scale 0 (complete failure) to 100 (absolute success). In order to get a passing mark in the Course, a student must receive a passing mark in the final exams. In a nutshell:
- The grade awarded for the assignment represents the 20% of the Course’s final grade.
- The grade awarded for the formative assessment activities represents the 20% of the Course’s final grade
- The grade awarded for the final exams represents the 60% of the Course’s final grade.
- In order to get an overall passing mark, a student must be graded with at least 50/100 in the final exams.
- Final assignment.
- Avrami E. C., Macdonald S., Mason R., & Myers D. (Eds.). (2019). Values in heritage management: Emerging approaches and research directions. Getty Conservation Institute.
- Dai, X., & Chen, G.-M. (Eds.). (2017). Conflict management and intercultural communication: The art of intercultural harmony (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315266916
- Jackson, J. (2014). Introducing language and intercultural communication (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315848938
- Jeong H.-W. (2008). Understanding conflict and conflict analysis. SAGE.
- Karras, I. (2020). The culture and communication interface. Εκδόσεις Δίαυλος.
- Liu, S., Volcic, Z., & Gallois, C. (2019). Introducing intercultural communication: Global cultures and contexts (3rd ed.). Sage.
- Martin, J.N., & Nakayama, T.K. (2010). Intercultural communication in contexts (5th ed.). McGraw Hill.
- Piller, I. (2017). Intercultural Communication: A critical introduction (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
- Samovar, L. A. Porter, R. E., & McDaniel, E. R. (2014). Intercultural communication: a reader(14th ed.). Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
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