COMM 226 Intercultural Communication

Highlights a critical approach to intercultural communication. Explores cultural-general concepts, power dimensions, and macro-structures of society to demonstrate how culture affects communication. Raises self-awareness and other-awareness concerning cultural group memberships and personal identities. Emphasizes respect for diverse ways of communicating in different cultural situations. Develops skills to communicate effectively with others.

Credits

Notes

Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course

General Education Requirements

AAOT Speech, AAS Communication, AS Diff, Power & Oppress Found

Outcomes

Identify personal cultural group memberships and explain the importance of these identities. Define important concepts in the field of intercultural communication. Experience and analyze a new cultural situation. Synthesize course concepts by creating a realistic intercultural communicative situation. Explain how ascribed differences are socially constructed, change over time, and impact our and others’ lived experiences. Articulate—using historical and contemporary examples—how ascribed differences, combined with inequitable distribution of power across cultural, economic, social, and/or political institutions, result in racism and intersect with other forms of systemic oppression. Describe how assets and resilience demonstrated by members of systematically marginalized communities and cultures play a role in dismantling racism and other systems of oppression.