Intercultural Communication 02.06-S2-EN-IC

Course content:

A. Workshops:

1. Basic concepts: Culture, Communication, Identity
2. Intercultural Communication as an Interdisciplinary Field of Studies
3. Applied Intercultural Communication: practical contexts
4. Identity and Culture
5. Media and Culture
6. Case studies: Local and Incoming Student’s Experiences in Opole
7. Theorizing Cases (group work)
8. Designing Case Studies (group work)
9. Fieldwork (group work)
10. Discussing results
11. Submitting reports

Supplementary literature

Fuchs, Christian. 2016. Critical Theory of Communication: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet. London: University of Westminster Press Bennett et al (eds) New Keywords - a Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society

Course coordinators

Borys Cymbrowski

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Student:
• Understands the interdisciplinary character of intercultural communication and its relation to sociology.
• Knows the relationships between the communication and culture on micro and macro levels and understands the links between them.
• Knows the multifaceted notion of identity and understands its importance in intercultural communication process.
• Knows the concept of culture and its significance in the everyday lives.

Skills

Student:
• Can use the knowledge in practical contexts in order to attempt to solve real-life issues.
• Is able to identify controversial issues of local or regional communities of Opole region.

Social competences

Student:
• Can identify the norms and values of different groups and can act upon them to solve problems related to them.
• Is open to different ideas and ways of seeing things. Is eager to engage in productive conversation with the other.
• Understands that it is crucial to discuss and approach problems from different perspectives. Both: theoretical and the stakeholder’s groups points of view.
• Willingly engages in group work.
• Can use advanced sociological knowledge to identify and attempt to solve social problems.
• Identifies social inequalities and can reflexively address them.

Assessment criteria

• In class group work
• Conducting case studies
• Final report

Basic criteria:

• Satisfactory if the student takes part in the classes and delivers a final report with minimum information.
• Good if the student contributes to the class discussion and submits an elaborate final report.
• Very good if the student participates in the classes with a meaningful input to the discussions and turns in an elaborate, innovative, critical and insightful final report.

Bibliography

Anastacia Kurylo (ed.), Intercultural Communication, 2013

Additional information

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