KIE-08007 Intercultural Communication Skills, 3-5 cr

Implementation KIE-08007 2019-02

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. This implementation of the course has less contact lessons in the classroom and more online work than other implementations.

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.

This implementation of the course will take place on Thursdays (Period I and 2) from 9.15 - 12.00 in room PC110, Hervanta. Notice that we do not meet in the classroom every week because we work more online that in other implementations of the same course.

You can find information about the dates for the learning events below:
Thu 05.09
Thu 19.09
Thu 03.10
Thu 24.10
Thu 14.11
Thu 28.11

Lessons

Assessment scale

Numerical evaluation scale (0-5)

Requirements

Students need to complete a minimum attendance of 80% of the learning events. In the beggining of the course, students can choose to obtain and work for 3, 4 or 5 credits. The grade will be based on participation, individual and teamwork done face to face and online.The course consists of short assignments done in the classroom and in the Moodle site of the course. In addition, students need to work on a final work and short presentation in a small team.

Additional information of course implementation

Preference will be given to students whose this course is compulsory and to those who enrolled earlier. Please enroll even if you are in the waiting list as some students cancel their seat in the course at the last moment. For more information and questions, please contact Carlos Mendoza (carlos.mendozasantana@tuni.fi).