Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION UİLT356 6. Semester 2 + 0 2.0 4.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Elective
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors Engin SARI
Assistants
Goals The aim of this course are to teach student the theories of intercultural communication, to get them sensitiveness to cultural diversity and differences, to give a perspective of interculturality in their daily life, to domanstrate how to analyze the case and events of intercultural communication.
Course Content Intercultural Communication Course focuses on the importance of culture in our everyday lives and national and global media cultures. The culture effects communication processes and is constructed by communcative actions. We live in an era of rapid globalization in which being able to communicate across cultures is imperative to our ability to function in a diverse workplace, city, and world. This course is designed to understand, analyze and increase our sensitivity to other cultures.
Learning Outcomes 1) The student knows the basic concepts and theoritical frames of intercultural communication and get acquainted with the main sources and sample cases about interculturality.
2) The students learn that interculturality is not to be taken and thought in term of nation-state paradigm. The students explain the transformation of interculturality in differnt social formations throughout history.
3) The students explain the experinces of interculturilty in both media contents and daily life and discuss diffrent cases in intercultural contexts conceptually.
4) The students analyze the intercultural and multicultural forms of new citizenship in terms of globalization process in various media content and artistic texts.
5) Have an approach and theoretical knowledge about the analysis of intercultural communication situations in popular culture.
6) Knows the contemporary problems of communication with the other and develops solutions to them.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Course description and Introduction to basic concepts about intercultural communication. Lecture
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week The general maps of cultural theory from clasical social theory to postmodern approaches. Lecture
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week The history of intercultural comminication studies. Lecture
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Kültürlerarası İletişim Kuramları-I: Enformasyon Sistemleri Kuramı Lecture
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week Theories of intercultural comminication 2: the culturality of space and time. Lecture
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week Midterm Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Midterm Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week Theories of intercultural comminication 4: The theories of cultural relativities versus THE theory of communicative action. Lecture
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week The identiy and conflict in the context of cultural differences. Lecture
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week İntercultural communicaiton competence in various social contexts. Lecture
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week Ethics in intercultural communication. Lecture
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week Intercultural communication in populer culture: nonfiction media content. Lecture
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Homework
13. Week Intercultural communication in populer culture: media fictions. Lecture
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week Intercultural communication in populer culture: literature and audivisual art texts. Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
15. Week Final Exam Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Fay, Brian (2001). Çağdaş Soysal Bilimler Felsefesi Çokkültürlü Bir Yaklaşım. Çev. İsmail Türkmen. İstanbul: Ayrıntı
Kartarı, Asker (2001). Farklılıklarla Yaşamak. Ankara: Ürün Yayıncılık.
Smith, Philip (2005). Kültürel Kuram. Çev. S. Güzelsarı, İ.Gündoğdu. İstanbul: Babil Yayıncılık.
Touraine, Alan (2001). Eşitliklerimiz ve Farklılıklarımızla Birlikte Yaşayabilecek miyiz? Çev. Olcay Kunal. İstanbul: YKY.

ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 2 14
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 4 14
Homework 1 10
Midterm Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 1 8
Final Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 8
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course
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