COMM 604 - Cross Cultural Communication

3 Credits

The course examines cultural differences in communicative practices (verbal, embodied) across multiple contexts and how we understand those practices to reflect culture. Students also explore the resulting possibilities for misunderstandings and conflicts and how they may be mediated. Students engage diverse discourses including research texts, social media images, advertisements, media programs and other sites of public communication. Discussions of culture require interrogation of subjects such as politics, power, and identity (race, class, gender, sexuality, religion). Students will conduct independent ethnographic research. The class provides a theoretical and practical knowledge that inform an ongoing critical awareness of the complexity of culture and communication.

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Every Spring

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