KIE-08006 Intercultural Communication Skills, 3 cr

Implementation KIE-08006 2018-04

Description

This course develops students' intercultural communication skills through short lectures, practical exercises and multicultural teamwork in face-to-face and online environments. The multicultural groups consist of both local and international students, which allows the students to learn and practice intercultural communication with each other in each class and teamwork.

At the end of the course students will be able to:

identify different cultural communication patterns, concepts of time, politeness and work values in social, academic and professional environments .
describe adaptation processes to cultural foreign environments and to multicultural settings.
identify the influence and importance of nonverbal communication and the relation of language and thought in cross-cultural collaboration.
apply strategies to enhance collaboration in multicultural teams
independently explore, analyze, and give suggestion to overcome critical incidents in social, professional and academic settings.

Lessons

Assessment scale

Numerical evaluation scale (0-5)

Requirements

To achieve the learning outcomes, students will:

complete a minimum of 80% attendance in the face-to-face lessons scheduled in the course.
watch videos/read material and then take part in group discussions online and face-to-face.
give and receive feedback from other students and the instructor.
work actively in a multicultural team with local and international students.
elaborate a final group project related to intercultural communication.


Grading scale is numeric 0-5

Additional information of course implementation

For more information and questions, please contact Carlos Mendoza (carlos.mendozasantana@tut.fi).