EDUC41730: Intercultural Communication

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• Students will gain a critical understanding of the theories, approaches, concepts and practices of intercultural communication in the contemporary world, including engaging with people from other horizons.

• The following topics are covered in the module: intercultural communication as embodied in communication, culture, context, globalisation and power; identity (and all its complexities); stereotyping, prejudice and ethnocentricity; nonverbal communication, intercultural transitions (migration, study abroad); relationality; intercultural conflict; intercultural competence; language and intercultural communication; multilingualism.

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• demonstrate critical understanding of theories, approaches, and practices of intercultural communication.
• demonstrate critical understanding and application of these theories, approaches, and practices to intercultural communication phenomena in the contemporary world.

Subject-specific Skills:

• identify and critically evaluate scholarly research within the field of intercultural communication;
• articulate and employ key terminology/concepts in the field of intercultural communication;
• identify and critically consider problems, issues, challenges and implications for intercultural communication;
• communicate effectively, orally and in writing, within an intercultural setting.

Key Skills:

• work on ideas and issues independently and as part a group;
• communicate and present ideas effectively through class presentation and writing;
• engage reflectively and critically with research-based literatures;
• search for and summarise/review key research literature;
• apply knowledge and learning to empirical examples and research.

• Teaching will be in the form of nine 3-hour workshops that combine a lecture-style tutor-input approach with seminar discussion and group work. The fifth workshop will be assigned as a group reading and preparation workshop for the assignments. During workshops, the tutor will present some of the key theories, concepts, debates, approaches and practices of intercultural communication through a series of key topics. Students are expected to engage with the themes and issues covered through interaction and critical discussion, student presentations of the literature, and group work activities.

Verbal feedback is given to students' contribution during class teaching sessions. A group presentation delivered by the students in week 9 will provide the bases for specific oral feedback directly related to the theoretical development and analytical skills needed for the academic written summative essay.

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