HENB10581U Interacting across cultures: developing awareness, critical reflection and skills
Interacting across cultures: developing awareness, critical reflection and skills
This course focuses on students’ development of intercultural communicative skills through interaction with peers from other Nordic universities throughout the semester.
The course consists of three parts focusing on “Navigating academic cultures”, “The role of language in intercultural communication”, and “Engaging with and reflecting on culture(s)”, which are taught by teachers from the participating Nordic universities.
Synchronous activities, such as online teaching and group discussions, will take place Fridays 12:00-14:00 (Danish time).
Part 1: Navigating academic culture
This first part of the course introduces students to an academic
approach to learning and university studies. Focus will be placed
on relevant theories and understanding of academic cultural
differences, both in text and context. The students will reflect
and discuss how to handle the transition between explicit and
implicit cultural expectations, including communication between
teachers and students, teaching, examinations, independent
learning, and initiative-taking.
Part 2: The role of language in intercultural
communication
This part focuses on intercultural communication, especially the
linguistic aspects of communication. Students will have the
opportunity -- individually and in a group -- to reflect and
process their own experiences of cross-language communication.
Topics include intercultural communication, communicative norms,
and communicative bias.
Part 3: Engaging with and reflecting on
culture(s)
This part provides theoretical grounding to support practical
cultural analysis, based on an intercultural toolbox and activities
that challenge cultural assumptions and may cause cultural
dissonance. Guided and spontaneous meta-cognitive/meta-emotional
reflection has a core role throughout the course.
A crucial tenet of the course is that students experience a safe space for open, critical and complex, at times difficult, discussion of intercultural themes and related thoughts, emotions, perspectives, and ideas.
Materials provided by the teacher during the course. |
Students will engage in and be responsible for brainstorming, discussion, contextualization, and reflection in the virtual classroom.
The course is based on both synchronous and asynchronous activities, and the students will be expected to participate actively throughout the semester. Synchronous activities will take place Fridays from 13:00.15:00 (Danish time). Asynchronous activities will be based on the learning platform Digicampus (hosted by the University of Helsinki).
The language of the course is English.
This course is open to Bachelor students from all faculties, including exchange students.
Please note that students from Engerom cannot register for this course without an approval from the study board.
- Kategori
- Timer
- Holdundervisning
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- Forberedelse (anslået)
- 162
- I alt
- 204
Bemærk, at studerende på Engerom ikke kan tage kurset uden en dispensation fra studienævnet.
Please note that students from Engerom cannot participate in the course without an approval from the study board.
- Point
- 7,5 ECTS
- Prøveform
- Undervisningsdeltagelse med opsyn.
- Krav til indstilling til eksamen
Form of exam: Active participation that consists of:
- Written assignments (total of 4-6 standard pages)
- One oral presentation of 20 minutes plus discussion
- Group discussions
- Hjælpemidler
- Alle hjælpemidler tilladt
- Bedømmelsesform
- bestået/ikke bestået
- Censurform
- Ingen ekstern censur
Kursusinformation
- Sprog
- Engelsk
- Kursuskode
- HENB10581U
- Point
- 7,5 ECTS
- Niveau
- BachelorBachelor tilvalg
- Varighed
- 1 semester
- Placering
- Efterår
- Kursuskapacitet
- 30
Studienævn
- Studienævnet for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk
Udbydende institut
- Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk
Udbydende fakultet
- Det Humanistiske Fakultet
Kursusansvarlige
- Slobodanka Dimova
(slobodanka.dimova@hum.ku.dk)
Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (CIP)
Undervisere
The course will be offered as a virtual course with teachers from the four participating universities: Stockholm, Helsinki, Reykjavik and Copenhagen. Synchronous activities, such as online teaching and group discussions will take place Fridays 12:00-14:00 (Danish time).