Foundations of Culture and Communication
The University of Queensland
This course will introduce you to the main concepts and theories in cross-cultural and intercultural communication. It focuses on diversity not only among cultures, but also within cultures and within our social interaction, both verbal and non-verbal.
About this Course
This course will introduce you to the key concepts that can help explain the differences and similarities between various cultural contexts. It's overarching objective is to provide you with the tools to examine your own behaviours and those that you observe in society. As a result, you should be able to explore different cultures from their cultural perspectives, thus acknowledging that there are no 'wrong' or 'bad' cultures, only different ways of seeing the world. In order to reach the main objective, in this course you will: show understanding of the intercultural communication research; apply theories to own experiences in relation to different cultural and linguistic contexts; explain the key factors facilitating and hindering intercultural communication; evaluate the intercultural communication awareness of self and others.
What You'll Learn
- show understanding of the intercultural communication research;
- apply theories to own experiences in relation to different cultural and linguistic contexts;
- explain the key factors facilitating and hindering intercultural communication;
- evaluate the intercultural communication awareness of self and others.
Instructors
Valeria Sinkeviciute
Dr