Courses persons responsible
Marketta Rostedt

Lecturers
John Rogers

Implementations

	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4	Summer
Lecture	-	-	2h h/week	2h h/week	-
Exam

(Timetable for academic year 2007-2008)

Objectives
To study a subject ( When cultures collide ) in English. To come into a deeper understanding of other cultures, how different cultures behave and react in differing situations. How attitudes to time can change from culture to culture. Why are people from other countries always different and WE are so normal?? What's going to happen when I end up working with a colleague from another country? These points will be studied as objectives of the course. Common European Framework of Reference, Level B2.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Categorising cultures. Linear-active, multi-active, reactive culture: what are they and how does their behaviour differ from each other?
2.	The use of time. How attitudes to time differ from culture to culture.
3.	Manners and mannerism. Table manners, protocol, customs, small talk, personal space, TABOOS.
4.	Getting to know each other. English speaking countries. Europe, east and west. Nordic countries. FINLAND - the country and the people, who are they and what do they do? Study of a selected country, students' own choice.
5.	Other countries will be studied, eg. Turkey, Iran, Latin America, China, Malaysia, Thailand, if time allows.

Requirements for completing the course
75% attendance

Evaluation criteria for the course

Prerequisites
Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

Distance learning

- In compiling teaching material, particularly for online use or other electronic media
- In compiling exercise, group or laboratory work
- In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc

- Contact teaching: 60 %
- Distance learning: 40 %
- Proportion of a student's independent study: 0 %

Scaling

Methods of instruction	Hours
Lectures	34
Total sum	34

Last modified	31.01.2007
Modified by	Tiina Suominen