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SoSe 18: Intercultural Conflicts and Communication

Grit Rother

Information for students

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Additional information / Pre-requisites

Course admission is restricted. Information on course registration please read in "Kommentar".

Comments

Learning Environment and Group

This course is meant to be an interactive workshop with a diverse group of participants. Half of the group will be regular degree-seeking students; the other half will be made of international exchange students from various countries.

Course Description

Our societies are constantly becoming more diverse. Whether at home or abroad, whether in our spare time or in professional situations, there are many occasions when we meet people from different parts of the world. Most often, those people show values, expectations and attitudes different from ours. Such diversity makes intercultural encounters interesting and enriching, but may, on the other hand, easily result in irritations, misunderstandings, and even conflict.

In this workshop we wish to train our intercultural sensitivity. We will experience how our own culture shapes our assumptions, perceptions and judgments, and how the world may look different from another culture’s eyes. We will look at different ideas about individual liberties and societal obligations, at different attitudes towards rules and time, at different communication styles, and at other diverging values.

The goal of this workshop is to develop skills and strategies that help us deal with cultural diversity, to prevent misunderstandings in unfamiliar situations, to deal with conflict in intercultural encounters and to master intercultural interactions with sensitivity and confidence.

Teaching Methods:
This course is a professional skills course. We will discuss the explanatory power of theoretical models from cultural anthropology and social psychology and we will apply them to our own intercultural experiences. However, we are not going to discuss research methods, work with empirical data, or develop own research projects.

Our focus will rather be on problem-based and experiential learning. Teaching methods will be highly interactive with group discussions, group presentations, role plays, case simulations, and other forms of games and exercises.

Restricted Enrollment

yes (that means that the number of participants is limited and that you might not get a place in this course)

Course Registration

Please write an e-mail to the course instructor g.rother@fu-berlin.de by Friday, April 13th, 2018, 12 p.m. (noon). The International Office at the Law Department is going to enroll all students on Campus Management who have been admitted by the course instructor.

De-Registration from this Course

Please contact the International Office at the Law Department if you do not longer wish to take part in this course.

Exam

This is a pass / non-pass course. There will be no exam. For a passing grade, you will be required to attend the course regularly and to take part in various forms of exercises. close

14 Class schedule

Regular appointments

Wed, 08:30 - 10:00 7 Class schedule

Wed, 2018-04-18 08:30 - 10:00

Lecturers:
Grit Rother