2. The Aims
What is Intercultural communication?
Why we study Intercultural
communication?
Understand some popular and important
topics in intercultural communication.
3. Four-week course
The first week--- the introduction of
Intercultural communication
The second week--collectivism/individualism
The third week---uncertainty avoidance
The Forth week---facework
4. Assignments
Reading the required reading material;
Watch the videos;
Making a self-introduction video and introduce yourself
with highlighting the characteristics of your cultural
background;
Write reading response paper for the required reading
material;
Coordinate with classmates to analyze a movie from
intercultural perspective;
Discuss the topic of every week on the discussion board
and post your own experience of intercultural
communication, at least 4.
5. The recommended text-book
Intercultural communication in
Context, by Judith N. Martin & Thomas K.
Nakayama (2013), the six edition.
6. Some hopes
During the studying process, I hope all of
you can participate in the discussion
actively and complete all of tasks.
After the study, I hope you learn how to
understand a different culture, and how to
respect differences.
