Intercultural Communication

Intercultural Communication

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Free Open Courses

Diversity and Difference in Communication-This free course, Diversity and difference in communication, explores the ways in which difference and diversity impact on the nature of communication in health and social care services.

Lumen-Introduction to Communication

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

  • Identify your own cultural identity.
  • Understand how communication, identity, and culture are related.
  • Describe research methodologies specific to the study of intercultural communication.
  • Identify cultural representations in popular culture artifacts.

Open Textbooks and Materials

Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies

Chapter 8: Culture and Communication
8.1 Foundations of Culture and Identity
8.2 Exploring Specific Cultural Identities
8.3 Intercultural Communication
8.4 Intercultural Communication Competence


Intercultural Communication-Survey of Communication Study-Wikibooks

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

• Identify your own cultural identity.
• Understand how communication, identity, and culture are related.
• Describe research methodologies specific to the study of intercultural communication.
• Identify cultural representations in popular culture artifacts.


Barriers to Listening-Boundless Communications

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify ways in which an effective communicator will approach communicating with a person from another culture
  • Distinguish between communicating in a feminine style with communicating in a masculine style

Intercultural and International Business Communication-Business Communication for Success

Learning Objectives:

  1. Define and discuss how to facilitate intercultural communication.
  2. Define and discuss the effects of ethnocentrism.
  3. Describe strategies to understand intercultural communication, prejudice, and ethnocentrism
  4. Understand the concept of common cultural characteristics and list several examples of such characteristics in your life.
  5. Discuss divergent cultural characteristics and list several examples of such characteristics in the culture(s) you identify with
  6. Describe international communication and the global marketplace, including political, legal, economic, and ethical systems.
  7. Understand and discuss how various styles of management, including Theory X, Y, and Z, influence workplace culture.

Diversity Communication Essentials-Professional Communication e-textbook

Pages 434-459


Open Access Journals

Communication and Culture Online– Communication and Culture Online is a free-access double-blind peer-reviewed electronic journal whose aim is to promote different ideas in the fields of linguistics, literature, communication, culture, interculturality and similar fields.

Supplemental Material-Free material for use in educational purposes but not openly licensed.  Please refer to each source individually for specific copyright information.

 

Culture Matters: The Peace Corps Cross-Cultural Workbook-Culture Matters,-The Peace Corps first extensive cross-cultural workbook for the volunteers which represents a major effort forward in cross-cultural training. 

Culture Matters:Training Guide