Topics to be covered

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