LING30220 Intercultural Communication

Academic Year 2024/2025

This modules explores communication across cultures and languages. It examines concepts of culture, focusing on non-essentialist perspectives and its role in the construction of (self) identity and other's identities. Focusing on both face-to-face and non-face-to-face, including digital communication, the module explores how people with different cultural backgrounds communicate and the issues that are likely to arise in cross-cultural communication.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

- critically examine lay and academic conceptualizations of culture
- relate concepts of cultures, identity and representations
- explore the relationship between culture and language
- develop intercultural awareness

Indicative Module Content:

Main themes covered in the module:
- Definition of culture
- ICC models (Iceberg/onion model, etc.)
- Verbal and non-verbal communication (kinesics, paralanguage, etc.)
- Digital communication (websites, ads, social networks through different cultures)
- Cultural dimensions (power distance, etc.)
- Otherness
- Cultural shock
- Facework

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Seminar (or Webinar)

24
Specified Learning Activities

20
Autonomous Student Learning

56
Total

100
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
- Student-centered approach based on multiple group activities, interactions, fieldwork observation, etc.

Blended approach as well (face-to-face + online learning) 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Group Work Assignment: Contrastive analysis of several media (ads/websites) n/a Graded No

70
Portfolio: Weekly learning Journal n/a Pass/Fail Grade Scale No

30

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.