Введение в межкультурную коммуникацию

2024/2025

Статус: Маго-лего

Кто читает: Школа иностранных языков

Когда читается: 1, 2 модуль

Онлайн-часы: 20

Охват аудитории: для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ

Преподаватели: Мошняга Елена Викторовна

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 6

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Abstract

The "Introduction to Inter- and Cross-cultural Communication" adaptation course is aimed at forming theoretical and practical foundations of intercultural communication, i.e. students' basic knowledge and practical skills of intercultural communication. The course has the following tasks: 1) to provide students with the key concepts of intercultural communication theory, such as 'culture', 'communication', 'intercultural communication', 'cross-cultural communication', 'interdiscourse communication', structure and models of intercultural communication, verbal, non-verbal and paraverbal communication; 2) to teach the basics of intercultural adaptation: acculturation and overcoming culture shock; 3) to reveal the main trends in intercultural communication in the modern world. Simultaneously with the main course, an online course is studied.

Learning Objectives

The purpose of the discipline is providing theoretical and practical introduction in the sphere of intercultural interaction within the conceptual perspectives of Self and Other; capacity-building for the students’ communicative competence involving verbal, paraverbal, and non-verbal communication, cultural awareness and intelligence, identity discourse comprehension.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Students can conceptualize the phenomenon culture from different perspectives.
Students can analyze and interpret culture as communication.
Students can model the processes of enculturation and socialization cross-culturally.
Students can draw distinction between the phenomena of “intercultural”, “cross-cultural”, “inter-discourse”, “international”, and “global” communication.
Students can analyze the concepts of “Other”, “Otherness”, “Otherization”.
Students can model communication of cultures from the perspectives of utilitarianism, rejection, or equality.
Students can conceptualize intercultural communication as a system.
Students can do the encoding and decoding of messages cross-culturally.
Students can develop models of the communicative process.
Students can analyze the “feedback” element of communication.
Students can project the 4 Cs of communicative acts in different settings.
Students can analyze the phenomenon of “noise” and its types in communication.
Students can draw distinction between verbal, paraverbal, and non-verbal types communication.
Students can analyze communicative behavior from verbal, paraverbal, and non-verbal perspectives.
Students can model verbal, paraverbal, and non-verbal communicative behavior cross-culturally.
Students can distinguish the phenomena of acculturation and enculturation.
Students can explain the differences and forecast the specific forms of acculturation in different settings and contexts.
Students can analyze the causes and outcomes of “culture shock” instances.
Students can model U-curves and W-curves of cultural adaptation contextually.

Course Contents

Culture and Communication: Concepts and Meanings
Intercultural Communication: Concept and Meaning
Intercultural Communication as a System
Types and Forms of Intercultural Communication
Acculturation and Cultural Adaptation. "Culture Shock" Phenomenon

Assessment Elements

Class participation
Practical and analytical assignments
Report presentation
Case study
Online course

Interim Assessment

2024/2025 2nd module
0.15 * Case study + 0.125 * Class participation + 0.125 * Class participation + 0.1 * Online course + 0.125 * Practical and analytical assignments + 0.125 * Practical and analytical assignments + 0.25 * Report presentation

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Acculturation : psychology, processes and global perspectives, , 2014
An introdution to intercultural communication : identities in a global community, Jandt, F. E., 2013
Cross-cultural and intercultural communication, , 2003
Cultural adaptation, , 2010
Exploring intercultural communication : language in action, Hua, Z., 2014
Intercultural communication : a contextual approach, Neuliep, J. W., 2015
Intercultural communication : a practical guide, Novinger, T., 2001
Intercultural communication, , 2017
Introducing intercultural communication : global cultures and contexts, Liu, S., 2011
The Cambridge handbook of acculturation psychology, , 2018
The Routledge handbook of language and intercultural communication, , 2012
Understanding intercultural communication, Ting-Toomey, S., 2012

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Communicating globally : intercultural communication and international business, Schmidt, W. V., 2007
Culture shock : a handbook for 21st century business, McInnes, W., 2012
Globalisation, education and culture shock, , 2017
Intercultural communication : a new approach to international relations and global challenges, Sadri, H. A., 2011

Authors

Moshniaga ELENA VIKTOROVNA

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