Cross-cultural Communications:1 (Ritsumeikan GS/IR)
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XCC 1
Course Introduction
Contact Details
Scott Koga-Browes Email: [email protected] Please include 'XCC' in subject line Office: Peace Museum 3f, Rm 319 Office Hours: Thus 1300-1430
Course Aims
Deeper understanding of the concept of 'culture'
Awareness of variety of ways in which 'culture' is constructed and used
Knowledge of elements of 'classical paradigm' of “cross/inter-cultural comms.”
General knowledge of ways in which human culture can vary.
Course Content: 1
1. Introductions and course outline
What is "Cross-Cultural Communication" and why study it?
1. Development of the field of ‘Intercultural Communications’
E.T.Hall, Foreign Service Institute, the IC Paradigm
1. Conceptions of Culture:1
culture as 'growth', culture as a 'standard', mass culture
1. Conceptions of Culture:2
Postwar thinking on 'culture', the culture onion, complexity
Course Content: 2
5. Dimensions of Culture
quantitative approaches, survey methodology, Hofstede and Trompenaars
5. Classifying Culture
culture 'ranking', stereotyping
Example of Hofstede's indexes
Course Content: 3
7. Language and Culture
'language=nation=culture', identity, sociolinguistics
7. World Languages Now
the values of language, linguistic imperialism, language death
7. Non-verbal communication
Proxemics, paralanguage and gesture
7. Perceptions of Time
Chronemics (mono- vs poly-chronic), time related language and gestures
7. Perceptions of Space
Proxemics, conceptions of position and direction
Course Content: 4
12.Culture Shock/Stress
Intercultural encounters, the right to communicate
12.The Politics of Culture
culture as nationalism, gendered and classed cultures
12.Identity, culture and communication
13.Review and Recovery
Sinocentric world map c.1700
Assessment 1 (25%)
Attendance and participation 6 absences or more = FAIL Prepare for class by completing
assignments and reading Be ready to ask questions and contribute
to discussions
Assessment 2 (25%)
Paper Review 1000 word (apx) review of an academic
paper chosen from the supplied list. Marks awarded according to distributed
rubric. Due Friday of week 9 (5pm 6 June)
Assessment 3 (50%)
One essay of minimum 2000 words You choose the topic Stage-by-stage preparation Due Friday of week 15 (5pm 18 July) Deadlines are deadlines!!!!
Turnitin & Plagiarism
Growth in interest
Occurrence of word 'culture' in English language texts in Google Books, 1700-2000. (Google Books Ngram Viewer)
Defining 'culture'
“I don't know how many times I've wished I'd never heard the damn word.”
Raymond Williams (1979)
For next week...
Alfred Kroeber & Clyde Kluckhohn
Culture; a critical review of concepts and definitions (1952)
Revised edition (1963) eventually included 150 different definitions of 'culture'.
For next week...
Go to the research library... Find FIVE different definitions of 'culture'
discuss in class, and hand in. Make sure to note down your sources.
ALSO read Piller “Genealogy of IC”