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Course Catalog 2013-2014

KIE-08006 Intercultural Communication Skills, 3 cr

Additional information

Students will be enrolled on the course according to the time of sign-up, priority given to TUT students to whom the course is compulsory. Places at the course will be divided as follows: - 16 students from degree programmes in Finnish - 12 students from international master's degree programmes - 4 exchange students

Person responsible

Galyna Dubova, Elina Nurminen

Lessons

Study type	P1	P2	P3	P4	Summer	Implementations	Lecture times and places
Lectures	4 h/week	+4 h/week				KIE-08006 2013-01	Monday 14 - 15, $lesson.place Wednesday 14 - 16, K2108 Monday 14 - 16, K2108
Lectures			4 h/week	+4 h/week		KIE-08006 2013-02	Monday 12 - 14, K2108 Wednesday 12 - 14, K2108

Study type	Hours	Time span	Implementations	Lecture times and places
Lectures Excercises	24 h/week 24 h/week	01.08.2014 - 15.08.2014 01.08.2014 - 15.08.2014	KIE-08006 2013-03	Friday 8 - 12, K2108 Monday 8 - 12, K2108 Tuesday 8 - 12, K2108 Wednesday 8 - 12, K2108 Thursday 8 - 12, K2108

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course the student will be able to identify the main components affecting intercultural communication. Students will be able to apply theories of intercultural communication in various situations. The students can take cultural sensitivity into account when communicating with people from other cultures and understand how to operate in multicultural groups.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Basic components of intercultural learning
2.	Models of intercultural awareness and sensitivity
3.	Factors affecting in intercultural verbal and nonverbal communication
4.	Models of intercultural adaptation

Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes

To pass the course students must participate on the lessons and finish all the assignments.

Assessment scale:

Evaluation scale passed/failed will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)

Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

More precise information per implementation

Implementation	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
KIE-08006 2013-01	Group1		Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %
KIE-08006 2013-02	Group 2
KIE-08006 2013-03	Group 3

Last modified

02.04.2014