The document outlines a four-week introductory course on intercultural communication that aims to define the topic, explain its importance, and cover popular subjects like collectivism/individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and facework. Students are assigned weekly readings, videos, discussion posts, a self-introduction, a group movie analysis, and a reading response paper. The recommended textbook is Intercultural Communication in Context by Martin and Nakayama. The instructor hopes students actively participate, complete all tasks, learn to understand and respect different cultures.

1. The Introduction Of the
Course

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.

7. Enjoy the course!