MDL6047 Intercultural Communication in Practice

Aims/Description: This module is designed to develop your intercultural competence with a view to becoming an intercultural mediator and effective communicator in an international/multicultural workplace. It requires participants to combine their knowledge of approaches to intercultural communication with real-time situations, thus enhancing their awareness of the values by which they and others operate. Emphasis will also be placed on the centrality of language in the intercultural communication process. You will take an active role in seminars; these are designed to develop intercultural learning through consideration of critical incidents, materials analysis, simulation, role play, drama, and multilingual discussion. These activities will lead to a deeper understanding of the centrality of language in intercultural encounters; the values carried by language and the participants themselves as intercultural people.

Restrictions on availability: Restricted to MDL, ELL, EAS, and Education students and subject to numbers.

Staff Contact: BAUMGARTEN NICOLE

Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study

Assessment: Course work

Information on the department responsible for this unit (Languages and Cultures):

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