Description
MC286 Intercultural Communication 3 credits
The intent of this course is to expose students to the dominant theories and concepts with the field of intercultural communication and to foster students? understanding of key differences between cultures. Communicating across cultural coungaries, through both interpersonal and mediated means, has become extremely commonplace in our increasingly globalized world. This course will serve as an introduction to intercultural communication by examining how incultural interactions affect diverse groups of people, their relationships, and their identities. This course intends to familiarize students with the leading principles and skills within the discipline of intercultural communication, to provide students opportunities to examine and analyze issues in intercultural interactions through the use of case studies, and to instill a sense of the importance and impact of interpersonal and mediated culture between and across cultures. Prerequisite: