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Adviser's Seminar "Current Paradigms of Inter- and Cross-Cultural Communication"
Type:
Compulsory course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)
Area of studies:
Linguistics
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
Where:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
1 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies:
distance learning
Online hours:
10
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Мошняга Елена Викторовна
Master’s programme:
Иностранные языки и межкультурная коммуникация
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
32
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The seminar is aimed at a deeper exploration of basic paradigmatic issues of intercultural and cross-cultural communication: Self and Other, Otherness and Otherisation, In-groups vs. Out-groups, Social and Cultural Identity, Mentality, Basic Personality, Paradigms of seeing or making sense of the world, Values – Beliefs – Attitudes – Norms – Worldview, Paradigm of ideology, Intercultural dialogue, Intercultural mediation, Cross-cultural communication as cross-cultural research. The seminar also targets the design of students' trajectories in the field. It focuses on educational and professional standards (e.g., ethics) as well as their personal contribution to theoretical and practical research. Projects in the field of communication are highlighted. An important aspect of the seminar is discussing preliminary and final outcomes of students' dissertation research.
Learning Objectives
- The purpose of the course is to provide for the academic and research capacity-building of master’s degree students in the spheres of intercultural and cross-cultural communication: to facilitate building systematic, consistent and fundamental knowledge, designing of students' research trajectories, assisting them in their personal contribution to current research issues, advising in the choice and application of research methods, designing analytical reviews, reports and articles, developing projects and theses.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Students distinguish cultural paradigms and can explain the differences.
- Students use relevant terms and concepts of intercultural and cross-cultural communication in academic discourse.
- Students analyze key trends and current issues in intercultural and cross-cultural communication studies.
- Students detect research gaps in the domains of culture, identity and discourse while studying intercultural and cross-cultural communication.
- Students choose appropriate methods to do research on the topic.
- Students apply parametric models to do cross-cultural research.
- Students distinguish novelty and innovation in research.
- Students apply critical thinking and creativity while doing research.
- Students develop research hypotheses and apply the principle of triangulation while doing research.
- Students apply multidisciplinary , interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches while doing research.
Course Contents
- Basic cultural paradigms. Key terminology and conceptology in the fields of intercultural and cross-cultural communication
- Key issues and trends in intercultural and cross-cultural communication studies
- Doing cross-cultural research
- Innovation and creativity in intercultural and cross-cultural research
- Strategies and perspectives of completing theses in the fields of intercultural and cross-cultural communication
- Semiotic analysis in intercultural communication research.
- Conceptological analysis in intercultural communication research.
- Discourse analysis in intercultural communication research.
- Content analysis in intercultural communication research.
- Methods of cross-cultural communication in comparative research.
Assessment Elements
- Class participation
- Practical and analytical assignments
- Report presentation
- Analytical survey
- Article review
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 4th module0.3 * Analytical survey + 0.1 * Article review + 0.1 * Class participation + 0.1 * Class participation + 0.1 * Practical and analytical assignments + 0.1 * Practical and analytical assignments + 0.2 * Report presentation
- 2025/2026 3rd module0.1 * Class participation + 0.3 * Practical and analytical assignments + 0.6 * Report presentation
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- A tale of two cultures : qualitative and quantitative research in the social sciences, Goertz, G., 2012
- Conducting research in educational contexts, Basit, T. N., 2010
- Doing cross-cultural research : ethical and methodological perspectives, , 2008
- Methods and data analysis for cross-cultural research, Vijver van de, F., 1997
- Performing gualitative cross-cultural research, Liamputtong, P., 2010
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Cross-cultural research methods in psychology, , 2011
- Designing research in the social sciences, Maggetti, M., 2013
- Quantitative research in linguistics : an introduction, Rasinger, S. M., 2011