Cross-Cultural Communication: Critical Incidents and Cases

Cross-Cultural Communication: Critical Incidents and Cases (3 cr., fall term every year) 

Course Aim: to form the understanding of intercultural communication difficulties arising from communication between people of different cultures and subcultures, and possible ways to overcome them.

Course Objectives: 

-   to provide the necessary knowledge and skills of successful interaction with other cultures;
-   to generate a sufficient level of cultural and intercultural competence to effective cross-cultural communication;
-   to study types, forms, shapes, patterns, and structural components of intercultural communication;
-   to master methodological tools of communicative behavior;
-   to develop the features of communicative behavior in all spheres life;
-   to apply the methods of intercultural communication.