2024/2025
Introduction to Inter- and Crosscultural Communication
Type:
Mago-Lego
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
1, 2 module
Online hours:
20
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Мошняга Елена Викторовна
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Course Syllabus
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 module0.15 * 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