3807714: CF_Intercultural Communication

Description

• Concepts, theories and models of intercultural communication
• Intercultural management, leadership
• The dimensions in national cultures
• The value systems in cultures and their relationship to human behaviour
• Eurocentrism versus ethnopluralism
• Stereotypes, xenophobia and multiculturalism

Learning Outcomes

Participants are able …

• to explain the basic concepts and theories of intercultural communication
• to analyse intercultural communication situations
• to describe their own and foreign value systems
• to apply intercultural insights in a work environment
• to do presentations in English

Lectures Method

• Activity-oriented motivating workshops with lecture segments

Admission Requirements

• Recommended: Conversation level of English knowledge

Literature

Trompenaars, F., Hampden-Turner, Ch. (2012). Riding the Waves of Culture - Understanding Diversity in
Global Business. London: McGraw-Hill.
Gibson, R. (2010). Intercultural Business Communication. Berlin: Cornelsen.
House et. Al (2004). Culture, Leadership, and Organization. The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Materials

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Comments

Cross-faculty elective subject:
Notice the special Multi-stage allocation process.