Topics:
Course topics will include the following:
1. Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication: The Components and
Characteristics of Communication
2. Fundamentals of Intercultural Communication: Forms of Intercultural
Communication and Models of Intercultural Communication
3. Culture and Perception: Beliefs, Values, and Attitudes; American Cultural
Patterns; Diverse Cultural Patterns; Hofstede’s Value Dimensions, Kluckhon, and
Strobeck’s Value Orientation, Hall’s High and Low-context Languages
4. Cultural Perspectives: Diverse World View, Family Religion, and History
5. Language and Culture: Importance and Nature of Language, Language and
Meaning, Language and Co-cultures
6. Nonverbal Communication and Culture: Importance and Functions of Nonverbal
Communication; Time, Kinesics, Haptic, Proxemics, and Paralanguage
7. Intercultural Issues: Domestic and International Problems, Prejudice,
Racism, and Discrimination
8. Intercultural Communication Settings: Business and Education
9. Culture Shock
10. Improving Intercultural Communication: Skills to Learn How-To-Learn,
Self-Perception, Intercultural Training Programs, Stress Management
References
1. Communicating Between Cultures, 2nd ed. (Larry A. Samovar and Richard E.
Porter, Wadsworth, 1995)
2. Increasing Multicultural Understanding: A Comprehensive Model (Don Locke,
Sage, 1992)
3. Communicating in Multicultural Organizations (Richard L. Wiseman and Robert
Shutter, eds., Sage, 1994)
4. Intercultural Communication: A Reader, 7th ed. (Larry A. Samovar and Richard
E. Porter, Wadsworth, 1994)
5.
Martin, Judith N. and Thomas K. Nakayama. (latest edition) Intercultural
Communication in
Contexts. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.
6.
Bennett, M. J. (Ed.). (1998). Basic Concepts in Intercultural Communication:
Selected Readings. Yarmouth, ME:Intercultural Press.
7.
Condon, J. and Yousef, F. (1975). An Introduction to Intercultural
Communication. New York, NY: Macmillan
