KIE-08007 Intercultural Communication Skills, 3-5 cr

Implementation KIE-08007 2019-03

Description

This implementation of the course targets outgoing and incoming exchange students in Tampere University during the spring semester 2019-2020. See more information on the section of "Additional information". 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 and apply strategies to study and live in a new cultural environment.
make a plan of activities and goals to accomplish during their studies abroad.
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

Students need to attend the two learning events scheduled in period II and participate in Skype meetings with other exchange students around the globe. Students need to complete the individual and group tasks in Moodle and participate in forums to discuss tasks and experiences abroad. Finally, students will present an evaluation of the activities done during the course and during their exchange studies.

Additional information of course implementation

This implementation of the course targets outgoing and incoming exchange students in Tampere University. Students taking this implementation of the course have two face-to-face meetings in the second period and they continue in an online environment during their exchange abroad (period III, and IV). Incoming exchange students in TAU can do this course when they are doing their exchange in Tampere. The credits of this course can be counted as part of the studies abroad. For more information contact the instructor. carlos.mendozasantana@tuni.fi.