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Credit Hours: 3 Effective Term: Fall 2012 SUN#: None AGEC: Cultural (Ethnic/Race/Gender) Awareness Oral Communications Social and Behavioral Sciences |
Credit Breakdown: 3 Lectures Times for Credit: 1 Grading Option: A/F Cross-Listed: |
Measurable Student Learning Outcomes |
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1. (Application Level) Describe and demonstrate how the individual elements of the communication process including encoding, decoding, message, noise, context, and channels contribute to a transactional exchange.
2. (Comprehension Level) Identify and describe the relationship between cultural values and communication behaviors 3. (Comprehension Level) Describe the unique qualities of the intercultural context and differentiate between intercultural and intracultural communication. 4. (Comprehension Level) Describe the impact of cultural differences on decoding, perception and listening in a wide-variety of communication situations and contexts. 5. (Comprehension Level) Explain the power of verbal communication and its ability to construct, reflect, and transmit the world view of a culture. 6. (Analysis Level) Describe and identify avowed and ascribed cultural, co-cultural, and social identities, analyze the impact of popular culture on identity development, and explain the development of one's own identities according to a model of identity development. 7. (Analysis Level) Describe the influence of a wide-variety of cultural value patterns such as those identified by Geerte Hofstede, Florence Klukhohn and Fred Strodtbeck, Edward T. Hall, or Shalom Schwartz on verbal and nonverbal communication and analyze situations of cultural conflict using these theoretical patterns to explain the dynamics. 8. (Comprehension Level) Identify how both qualitative (ethnography) and quantitative (scientific method) research methods have contributed knowledge to the field of intercultural communication. 9. (Analysis Level) Analyze the impact of psychological barriers such as ethnocentrism, stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, and privilege on intercultural interactions and discuss how to overcome these barriers. 10. (Application Level) Demonstrate the ability to achieve communication goals while being a confident and competent communicator when sending and receiving messages in intercultural contexts. 11. (Application Level) Demonstrate the ability to effectively adapt communication appropriately for interacting with people from a variety of cultures. 12. (Analysis Level) Describe the nature of intercultural relationships and analyze the challenges that occur within them. 13. (Analysis Level) Analyze ethical issues inherent to intercultural situations. 14. (Synthesis Level) Appreciate cultural differences and describe positive impacts of diversity. |
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