CAC Syllabus and Deadlines
Aug 30, 2023
CAC
This course offers a critical approach to the field of Cross-Cultural Communication by introducing students to ideas of ‘culture’ and ‘identity’. An
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Aug 22, 2023
CAC & Writing
Introduction (TOPIC - explain what you are going to do) (BODY - do what you said you were going to do) First body para Second body para Third body
CAC 1
Aug 16, 2023
CAC
Who am I? Who are you? What is this course about? What is it not about? Nothing to prepare for the first week. Before the class ends, here will be a
CAC Essay Information
Aug 16, 2023
CAC
As noted in the syllabus there are two parts to the final grade for this course, participation (30%) and a final essay (70%). The ‘final essay’
CAC 2
Aug 15, 2023
CAC
This session looks at the birth of studies of ‘Cross/Intercultural Communication’. E.T. Hall and the Foreign Service Institute. “The Silent
CAC 3
Aug 14, 2023
CAC
Changing conceptions of the notion of ‘culture’. How did we get to where we are now? Culture as ‘growth’, culture as a ‘standard’, the emergence of
CAC 4
Aug 13, 2023
CAC
Postwar thinking on ‘culture’, the culture onion. Norms, values and beliefs. Cultural relativism and complexity. Download slides - PDF Dahl, S.
CAC 5
Aug 12, 2023
CAC
Quantitative approaches, survey methodology. The influence of Hofstede and Trompenaars. Read the McSweeney paper below Look through the slides
CAC 6
Aug 11, 2023
CAC
This week we take a look at how academics, and others, have tried to find ways to identify and discuss some sort of ‘proxy’ for ‘cultural’
CAC 7
Aug 10, 2023
CAC
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, languages and perception, national languages. Leave a comment on the manaba forum telling us about useful words and
CAC 8
Aug 9, 2023
CAC
This session introduces some basic approaches and findings from the field of ‘Sociolinguistics’: how societies and social groups use language to
CAC 9
Aug 8, 2023
CAC
Facial expressions, proxemics, gesture and ‘paralanguage’ as bearers of social meaning. As usual, check out the materials. Leave a comment in the
CAC 10
Aug 7, 2023
CAC
Feedback and discussion of essay topics
CAC 11
Aug 6, 2023
CAC
What is ‘time’? What do human beings around the world think about time? Do we all agree on how time works? Also a brief look at ‘Chronemics’ and
CAC 12
Aug 5, 2023
CAC
Proxemics. The culture and conceptions of position and direction. Language and space. Read the reading, Brown and Levinson 1993 look through the
CAC 13
Aug 4, 2023
CAC
read the reading look through the slides Download slides - PDF ‘Transition Shock’ in Bennett, M. J. (1998). Basic concepts of intercultural
CAC 14
Aug 3, 2023
CAC
Read the reading Check out the slides. Prepare to hand in “Reflection Paper 4” Get ready to hand in that final essay - feel free to get in touch by
CAC 15
Aug 2, 2023
CAC
Awareness of multiplicity of ‘identity’ Freedoms and constraints in identity choice Distinguish personal and social identity Introduction to