Research Seminar "Intercultural Communication in the Asia-Pacific Region"

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

6

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Management

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 3, 4 module

Instructor

Veselova, Liudmila S.

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course provides students with fundamentals of intercultural context together with complex knowledge of modern development of Asia. It is also devoted to communication between different cultures and includes the study of theoretical aspects of intercultural communication, covering the key-concepts with a wide variety of examples, supported by a comprehensive reading list. The course will focus on: differences between “interaction” and “communication”, “intercultural”, “multicultural” and “cross-cultural”; basic categories of Asian traditional cultures and their modern interpretations; stereotyping in the process of Intercultural Communication in Asia; national character and main features of Asian business etiquette; intercultural communication and dialogue of cultures in the sociocultural space of modern Asia.