Intercultural communication 1.S2.MLA.11
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
Field of study
Student workload
Study level
Education profile
Type of course
obligatory courses
The semester in which the subject is carried out
Mode
Course coordinators
Term 2023/24-Z: | Term 2024/25-Z: |
Learning outcomes
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)
Assessment criteria
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
Bibliography
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.
Additional information
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