Subject description
ELL230 explores issues in communication among people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Culture is used broadly, to encompass dimensions such as class, gender, sex, professions, institutions, and national boundaries. This interdisciplinary subject will raise students awareness of how culture, cognition, and communication are intermeshed in complex ways, touching on … For more content click the Read More button below.
Enrolment rules
Pre-Requisite
Equivalence
LING210 - Communication Across Cultures
ELL 210 - Communication Across Cultures
Tutorial enrolment
Students can enrol online via the Tutorial Enrolment link in SOLS
Delivery
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Engagement hours
Contact hours:1 hr lecture, 2 hr tutorial
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:
1.
Understand and gain an understanding of the key concepts in intercultural communication such as: culture, coculture, communication and language and how these apply to intercultural communication;
2.
Describe differences in how people from various cultural groups interact with each other, including different styles of thinking and of communicating;
3.
Develop greater confidence in communicating and interacting in a diverse cultural context
4.
Construct a diverse range of communicative forms, such as reading reports, class activities and major projects
Assessment details
Report
Design and Presentation
Quizzes
Project
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