COMM 3364 Intercultural Communication

In this course, participants will be introduced to various key theories and thought-provoking real life examples of intercultural communication. The issue of how people communicate within and across cultures will be explored and built around four major themes: culture as context, communication variables, cultural values and cultures within cultures. A varied engagement with the notion of culture and its constructed nature, perpetuated and changed by small acts of communication - particularly by intercultural (mis)communication - and representation is presented and analyzed along with specific media representations of Otherness and Exoticism. For this purpose issues of cultural dealings, discourse and dominance, identity cards and cultural refugees are raised to show how communication is very often governed by presumption and power.

Offered

Summer