FL 1 - Culture and Communication in German for Advanced Students

  • Credits: 3
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 2C
  • Semester: summer
  • Year: 2
  • Faculty of International Relations

Teachers

Included in study programs

International Economic Relations

Teaching results

Language Knowledge: Understanding the impact of culture on communication and manifestations of culture in communication, primarily in intercultural interactions stemming from mastering basic terminology and comprehension of selected theories of culture and communication.
Language Skills: Ability to adequately assess and analyse a communication encounter in an intercultural context so that its understanding results in successful communication at the relevant level of the German language command.
Language Competence: Built-up basic cultural sensitivity a developed cultural awareness.

Indicative content

1. Culture: definitions, research methodology
2. Culture: forms and ideologies
3. Structure of a culture
4. Values and value systems, changes in values and factors leading to them
5. Perception of stereotypes, prejudices
6. Culture shock and its handling
7. Communication: definitions, the structure and levels of a communication process
8. Intercultural communication
9. Intercultural competence
10. Selected theories of culture
11. Selected characteristics of culture
12. Culture of Germany and German-speaking cultural area

Support literature

KUCHAROVÁ, J., KUNOVSKÁ, I.: (2017): Grundbegriffe der Kultur und Kommunikation. Bratislava: Ekonóm, 129 s.
BOLTEN, J.: (2007): Einführung in die Interkulturelle Wirtschaftskommunikation. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & amp; Rupert,
Aktuálne materiály relevantných databáz vládnych a medzinárodných organizácií, prípadové štúdie z praxe, relevantné monografie a vedecké časopisy z oblasti kultúry a komunikácie

Requirements to complete the course

Project (assessed work) and its presentation – 40%
Final examination – 60%

Student workload

26 hours – participation in sessions
20 hours – project and presentation preparation (assessed work)
32 hours – preparation for the examination

Language whose command is required to complete the course

German

Date of approval: 08.03.2024

Date of the latest change: 15.12.2021