LC-0610 - Intercultural Communication L, Lecture, 28.2.2023-4.4.2023

Topic outline

• Welcome to our course!
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• Resources
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  In this section you will find the links to join our online lessons and main book that we will use in this course. In addition, you will find the guidelines to do the journal, discussion leading task and final project.
  

  
  

• Week 1 Intercultural Communication: Why, what and how
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  Lesson on the 28.02 (classroom Y307) topics include:
  

  • Course introduction
  • The what, why , and how of intercultural communication
  • Essentialist vs non-essentialist approaches to culture and intercultural communication 
    
  • Diverse diversities (identities): culture, language, gender, age, field, nationality(s)  
  • Intercultural encounters
    

  
  

• Week 2 Language-nation and their relation to culture
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  Lesson on the 7.03 (classroom Y307) topics include:
  

  
  

  • Relation between language and culture
    
  • Nationalism and 'banal nationalism'
    
  • Internationalization at home and abroad  
  • Interculturality: me, the other, and us 
    

  
  

• Week 3 Intercultural Communication in a Multilingual World
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  Lesson on the 14.03 (classroom Y347) topics include:

  
  

  • Undertanding multilingualism: language choice and language learning
    
  • Beliefs about language practices & the political economy of languages
  • Cultural an linguistic misunderstandings
    
  • Commercial language regimes in law and the commercialisation of language teaching
    

  
  

• Week 4 Intercultural Communication in a Transnational World
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  Lesson on the 21.03 (classroom Y307) topics include:

  
  

  • Mobility
  • Linguistic-cultural aspects of group belonging
    
  • Integration in the labour-market of transnational migrants and their descendents
  • Inclusive language and industrial policies in culturally diverse societies
    

  
  

• Week 5 Becoming and intercultural mediator & Working on the final project
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  Lesson on the 28.3 (classroom Y307) topics include:
  

  
  

  • Reflecting on your own experiences with and roles in intercultural communication
    
  • Getting feedback for the final project in small groups
    

    

  
  

• Week 6 Final presentations of the research projects
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  Lesson on the 4.4 starts at 10.15 (classroom Y347). During this lesson students will present their final projects.