Session
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Session Focus
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Reading Assignment
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WK 1A Sept 3
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Introduction to course
Culture Shock
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Textbook: Chapter 1
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WK 1B Sept 5
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What is intercultural communication?
Intercultural Competence
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Textbook: Chapter 11, pp. 381-386
AutoEthnography Assignment handed out
“Assessing Intercultural Competence” in New Directions for Institutional Research, no. 149, Spring 2011. Wiley.
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WK 2A Sept 10
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Intro to Cultural Typologies
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Textbook: Chapter 6, pp. 198-205
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WK 2B Sept 12
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“American Values” vs. the “Other” (Arab, Italian, etc.)
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Lewis, When Cultures Collide pp. 389-433 (on Arab countries), pp. 414415 (on Morocco), pp. 262268 (on Italy), pp. 179186 (on Americans).
Weekly journal due by Friday at 10pm on Moodle.
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WK 3A Sept 17
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Kohls’ “US Values” vs. the “Other” (Arab, Italian, etc.)
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Textbook: Chapter 6 pp. 205-213
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WK 3B Sept 19
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Cultural Typologies: Collectivist vs. Individualist Cultures
Yang Liu’s East Meets West
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Textbook: Chapter 3 pp. 68-72 and 80-91
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WK 3C Sept 20
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(Class added as makeup for Nov. 28)
Moral Foundations Theory
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Haidt and Graham, “When Morality Opposes Justice: Conservatives Have Moral Intuitions that Liberals may not Recognize.”
Moral Foundations quiz: https://www.idrlabs.com/morality/6/test.php and https://www.yourpersonality.net/political/griffin1.pl.
Weekly journal due by Sunday at 10pm on Moodle.
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WK 4A Sept 24
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Cultural Typologies: Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck, and Hall
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Textbook: Chapter 6, 214-222
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WK 4B Sept 26
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Cultural Typologies: Hofstede’s Value Dimensions
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Textbook: Chapter 6, 222-230
Weekly journal due by Friday at 10pm on Moodle.
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WK 5A Oct 1
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Film: Benvenuto al Sud
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“Italy” article from Hofstede website.
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WK 5B Oct 3
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Finish and discuss Benvenuto al Sud
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Weekly journal due by Friday at 10pm on Moodle.
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WK 6A Oct 8
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Intergenerational value “clashes”
Modernization and the Family: Traditional, Modern and Postmodern value systems
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Textbook: Chapter 3 pp 68-89.
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WK 6B Oct 10
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Auto Ethnography presentations and discussion
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Auto Ethnography Papers due via Moodle at class time.
No weekly journal due.
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WK 7A Oct 15
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Midterm Review
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WK 7B Oct 17
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Midterm Exam
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No weekly journal due.
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WK 8A Oct 22
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Generalizations, Stereotypes, and Prejudice: How they work in the brain
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Textbook, Chapter 7, pages 243-255.
Virgo, Sabrina. “The Criminalization of Poverty.” Crossroads Magazine, October, 1991.
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WK 8B Oct 24
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Media Representation
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Shaheen, Jack. “Hollywood’s Misrepresentation of Arabs.”
Weekly journal due by Friday at 10pm on Moodle.
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WK 9A Oct 29
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Generalizations, Stereotypes, and Prejudice:
The Clash of Civilizations: “Islam” vs. “The West”
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Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?," Foreign Affairs, Vol 72, No. 3 (Summer 1993), pp. 2249
Edward Said, "The Clash of Ignorance", The Nation, October 4, 2001.
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WK 9 B Oct 31
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“Islam” vs. “The West” (Butterfly Mosque activity)
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Esposito, John L. What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam. Oxford University Press, 2011. (Excerpt on religious violence)
(This weekend, start reading: The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh)
Weekly journal due by Friday at 10pm on Moodle.
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WK 10A Nov 5
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Toward a Multicultural Europe: Immigration, Identity and Citizenship
The Mediterranean Refugee Crisis
Video: Religion News Service
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Montali, Riva, Frigerio and Mele “The representation of migrants in the Italian press,” Journal of Language and Politics 12:2. pp. 226250. (2013).
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WK 10B Nov 7
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Toward a Multicultural Europe: Immigration, Identity and Citizenship
Film: 18 Ius Soli
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“It's Not Islam That Drives Young Europeans to Jihad, France's Top Terrorism Expert Explains,” Haaretz. June 4th, 2017.
Weekly journal due by Friday at 10pm on Moodle.
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WK 11A Nov 12
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The Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Maoz, Ifat. “Does contact work in protracted asymmetrical conflict? Appraising 20 years of reconciliationaimed encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinians Journal of Peace Research. 48 (1, pp. 115125). 2011
Extra credit: watch the film Promises and send me a short reflection
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WK 11B Nov 14
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The Arab-Israeli Conflict (cont’d)
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Zaharna, R.F., “An Associative Approach to Intercultural Communication Competence in the Arab World” in Sage Handbook of Intercultural Communication Competence, 2009.
Weekly journal due by Friday at 10pm on Moodle.
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WK 12 A Nov 19
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Interpersonal and psychological origins of cultural conflict
Personality types, conflict style, empathy and resiliency, trauma.
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The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Take quiz links posted on Moodle:
MBTI: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
Conflict style
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WK 12 B Nov 21
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Interpersonal and psychological origins of cultural conflict
Attachment style.
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The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Take quiz for attachment style: https://dianepooleheller.com/attachment-test/ or http://www.web-research-design.net/cgi-bin/crq/crq.pl
Weekly journal due by Friday at 10pm on Moodle.
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WK 13 A Nov 26
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Gender relations, roles, and stereotypes
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Eckert, Penelope and McConnell-Ginet, Sally, “Language and Gender.” (Excerpt)
Recommended:
Walby, Sylvia. “Structuring Patriarchal Societies.”
(No weekly journal due over Thanksgiving.)
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WK 14A Dec 3
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Gender in religion
Film: Jilbab
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Esposito, John L. What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam. Oxford University Press, 2011. (Excerpt on gender in Islam).
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WK 14B Dec 5
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Review
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Weekly journal due by Friday at 10pm on Moodle.
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Final Exams week
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FINAL EXAM
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Date & location will be listed on MyJCU
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