LFU:online

This course will enable students to define culture and understand its meaning on a micro- as well as macro level. In this course students will be asked to reflect upon their own perceptions of culture and will also be provided with new insights regarding intercultural and multilingual communication, with both a theoretical background as well as in practice.

In the globalised world, inter- and intracultural communication is a vital part of every contemporary society. Even though the dynamics of communication and language are ever-changing, the cultural system is yet based on fixed social, communicational, and moral/ethic rules. This course aims at providing its participants with new insights, using the resources of intercultural and multilingualism research and theory in order to open new horizons both for Erasmus and native Austrian students.

Blended learning: online assignments (OLAT), compulsory classes, group work.

Continuous online home assignments, group project assignment and presentation, participation in class.

Jandt, F. E. (2015). An Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Identities in a Global community. Sage Publications Ltd.; 8th Edition.

All further literature will be announced in the first class.

This class will be held in English.
First Class: 09.03.2017
There are only five sessions in class during the semester. Please note that attendance is mandatory for all the sessions.

Ranking of registration: Incoming students are preferred. Students will be ranked according to semesters, higher ranked semesters are preferred. In case the decision has to be made between two students with the same amount of semesters, the one with more ECTS is preferred.