FL 1 – Culture and Communication in French for Advanced Level

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

Teachers

Included in study programs

International Economic Relations

Teaching results

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.
Skills: Ability to adequately assess and analyse a particular communication encounter in an intercultural context so that its understanding results in successful communication at the relevant level of the French language command.
Competence: Built-up basic cultural sensitivity and developed cultural awareness.

Indicative content

1. Culture: definitions, research methodology.
2. Culture: forms and ideologies; cultural dimensions.
3. Selected theories of culture.
4. Stereotypes and prejudices.
5. Culture shock and its handling.
6. Communication: definitions, the structure and levels of a communication process.
7. Verbal communication.
8. Nonverbal communication.
9. Intercultural communication.
10. Intercultural competence.
11. Culture of France and French-speaking cultural area
12. Selected topics of French culture.

Support literature

1. BOURSE, M. – YÜCEL, H. (2019): Communication interculturelle : mode d’emploi. Paris: L’Harmattan.
2. DAHL, O. (2021): Communication interculturelle. Une introduction. Oxford; Bern; Berlin; Bruxelles; New York; Wien: Peter Lang.
3. PRETCEILLE, M. (2020): La communication interculturelle. Entre pertinence et impertinence. Paris: L’Harmattan.
4. REGNAULT, E. – COSTA-FERNANDEZ, E. (2016): L’interculturel aujourd’hui. Perspectives et enjeux. Paris: L’Harmattan.
5. SAUQUET, M. – VIELAJUS, M. (2014): L’Intelligence interculturelle. Paris: Éditions Charles Leopold Mayer.
6. SCHMITT, F. (2015): Les cultures française et slovaque. Analyses comparatives de représentations sociales. Louvain-la-Neuve: EME Modulaires.

Requirements to complete the course

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

Student workload

78 hours
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

French

Date of approval: 08.03.2024

Date of the latest change: 12.01.2022