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Dec 12, 2024
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2024-2025 College Catalog
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CMN 200 - Intercultural Communication 3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours 3 lecture periods 0 lab periods The study of intercultural communication comparing cultures and communication styles with a focus on developing intercultural communication competence in interactions with culturally dissimilar people. Includes strategies for managing intercultural communication conflict; avoiding stereotypes and prejudice in intercultural encounters; for dismantling racism and discrimination. Also includes communication skills to achieve intercultural communication competence.
Prerequisite(s): CMN 102 or CMN 110 . Gen-Ed: Meets AGEC - Options; Meets CTE - Options.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Articulate the connection between culture and communication.
- Demonstrate the ability to be culturally self-aware.
- Explain the role of cultural patterns, cultural identity, cultural bias, verbal and nonverbal codes in the development of intercultural interpersonal relationships.
- Demonstrate communication skills that improve intercultural communication competence in interactions with culturally dissimilar others.
Outline:
- Communication and Intercultural Competence
- Introduction to Intercultural Competence
- The demographic imperative
- The technological imperative
- The economic imperative
- The interpersonal imperative
- The challenge of communicating in an intercultural world
- Culture and Intercultural Communication
- Defining culture
- Forces that maintain cultural differences
- Cultural differences in communication
- Cultural taxonomies and intercultural communication
- Intercultural communication competence
- The United States as an intercultural community
- Components of intercultural competence
- Basic tools for improving intercultural competence
- Cultural Differences in Communication
- Foundations
- Defining cultural patterns
- Components of cultural patterns
- Characteristics of cultural patterns
- Taxonomies
- Hall’s high- & low-context
- Hofstede’s cultural dimensions
- Schwartz’s cultural taxonomy
- The Globe cultural taxonomy
- Cultural identity
- The nature of identity
- The formation of cultural identity
- Characteristics of cultural identity
- Cultural Biases
- Social categorization
- Ethnocentrism
- Stereotyping
- Prejudice
- Discrimination
- Racism
- Coding Intercultural Communication
- Verbal Intercultural Communication
- The power of language
- Definition of verbal codes
- Language, thought, & culture
- Nonverbal Intercultural Communication
- Characteristics on nonverbal codes
- Cultural universals in nonverbal codes
- Cultural variations in nonverbal codes
- Nonverbal functions & messages in intercultural communication
- The Effects of Code Usage in Intercultural Communication
- Preferences in the organization of messages
- Cultural variations in persuasion
- Cultural variations in the structure of conversations
- Communication in Intercultural Relationships
- Intercultural Competence in Interpersonal Relationships
- Cultural variations in interpersonal relationships
- The maintenance of Face
- Improving intercultural relationships
- Episodes, Contexts, & Intercultural Interactions
- The social context
- The healthcare context
- The educational context
- The business context
- The potential for Intercultural Competence
- Intercultural contact
- Power differences between groups
- The ethics of intercultural competence
Effective Term: Fall 2024
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