Intercultural communication
- Credits: 10
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 16sC
- Semester: summer
- Year: 1
- Faculty of Applied Languages
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Knowledge:
• To obtain theoretical knowledge of global competencies such as self-regulation, collaborative managing, business anticipation and cultural management in multicultural companies
• To gain knowledge about cultural value dimensions, cultural communities, development of intercultural leading, conception of intercultural communication, development of global thinking
• To achieve knowledge about the task of mentoring education by development of intercultural leading
Competencies:
• To gain skills of effective interaction and mutual cooperation with partners from different environments
• To obtain skills for professional leading and support of a team, combination of knowledge and skills with understanding and sensitivity in a relation with different cultural persuation
• To acquire skills in understanding attitudes and intentions of partners from different cultural environments, and at the same time to realize own subconcious predjudices by means of skills obtained on the basis of knowing cultures‘ clusters and value orientations
• To achieve global thinking, cultural, emotional and social intelligence, manager competencies by cooperation, creativity, innovations, and visions, building teams and partnerships as key factors of sucesss in the multicultural environment.
Skills:
• To gain skills to identify cultural differences in behaviour, thinking, and perception in different cultures
• To obtain skills in identification of differences in verbal and non-verbal communication
• To secure skills of effective applications of cognitive, metacognitive, motivational and behavioral assets in culturally different situations
Indicative content
• Culture as a system of gained meanings and intercultural communication as a model process
• Functions of cultural values and analysis of dimensions of cultural values
• Intercultural competition ability and global competencies of leading workers in culturally different contexts
• Connections between verbal and non-verbal communication and culture
• Impact of the national cultures on the enterprise culture and success factors
Support literature
Basic literature:
1. Ting-Toomey, S. Chung, L. C. (2012): Understanding intercultural communication. New York: Oxford University Press.
2. Rosen, R., Phillips, C., Singer, M., Digh, P. (2000): Global literacies: Lessons on business leadership and national cultures. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Optional literature:
1. Corbett, J. (2022): An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching. New York: Multilingual Matters.
2. Lewis, R. D., Hammerich, K. (2013): Fish Can't See Water: How National Culture Can Make or Break Your Corporate Strategy. Wiley.
3. Livermore, D. (2010): Leading with Cultural Intelligence. New York: American Management Association.
4. Meyer, M. (2014): The Culture Map: Decoding how people think, lead, and get things done across cultures. PublicAffairs.
5. Panocová, R. (2022): Theories of Intercultural Communication. Košice: Šafárik Press.
Requirements to complete the course
The final evaluation is based on the elaboration of the project plan (40%) and the final work (60%).
Student workload
Consultations: 16 hours
Preparation for consultations: 26 hours
Assignment processing: 108 hours
Final study processing: 108 hours
Consultations for the final study: 2 hours
Date of approval: 17.01.2025
Date of the latest change: 17.12.2023

