Session
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Session Focus
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Reading Assignment
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WK1A
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Introduction to course
Intensity factors of intercultural experience
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Recommended:
Ch.1 from: Intercultural Communication in Contexts.
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WK 1B
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Culture Shock
Social Scripts
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1. Meng, Hongdang. “Social Script Theory and Cross-Cultural Communication.”
2. Peng, Mei. “A Contrastive Study of Gift-Giving Between Chinese and Germans.”
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WK2A
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Cultural Typologies: Collectivist vs. Individualist Cultures
Intercultural Competence
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Samovar et. al. Ch. 6 , “Cultural Values, Guidelines for Behavior” , pp. 172-184
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WK 2B
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Stereotypes and Generalizations
Kohls “American Values”
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1. Kohls, Values Americans Live By (recommended, not required)
2. Zatsepina, Olga; Rodriguez, Julio. “American Values through Russian Eyes.”
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WK3A
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Continue: Kohls “American Values”,
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1. Bassetti, Pierro. “Italicity: Global and Local” (recommended, not required)
2. R. Lewis. When Cultures Collide. “Italy” p. 262-268, “Russia” p. 372-380.
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WK 3B
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Individualism and Collectivism
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Auto-Ethnography Assignment handed out, due week 7A
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WK4A
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Cultural Typologies: E.T. Hall’s High and Low Context Culture
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Discussion of Yang Liu’s East Meets West
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Samovar et. al. Ch. 6 , “Cultural Values, Guidelines for Behavior”
Read: At least the sections on High and Low Context Culture, begin studying whole chapter.
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WK4B
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Marketing in High and Low Context Cultures
Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s Value Orientations
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Samovar et. al. Ch. 6 , “Cultural Values, Guidelines for Behavior”
Read: At least section on Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck, continue studying whole chapter.
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WK 5A
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Hofstede’s Value Dimensions
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Samovar et. al. Ch. 6 , “Cultural Values, Guidelines for Behavior”
Read: At least section on Hofstede, continue studying whole chapter.
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WK5B
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Hofstede’s Value Dimensions: The Italian Case
Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, and Masculinity
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Tavanti, Marco. “The cultural dimensions
of Italian leadership”
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Wk 6A
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High vs. Low Context Italian Values
Start film: Benvenuti al Sud
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WK 6B
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Finish & discuss film: Benvenuti al Sud
Other Comparing Cultures examples
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Comparing Cultures Assignment handed out: Due in class Week 11A
Samovar et. al. Ch. 6 , “Cultural Values, Guidelines for Behavior” (study whole chapter for assignment)
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WK 7A
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Auto Ethnography discussions and optional presentations
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Auto Ethnography Papers due in class (printed please!)
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WK7B
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Nonverbal Communication
Proxemics
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Recommended:
Martin and Nakayama. “Ch. 7. Nonverbal codes and cultural space”. Intercultural Communication in Contexts
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WK 8A
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Review
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Wk 8B
EXACT DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED IN CLASS
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Midterm Exam
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WK 9A
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Gender and Modernization: Traditional, Modern and Postmodern cultural systems
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Recommended:
Inglehart and Baker, “Modernization, Cultural Change and the Persistence of Traditional Values.”
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WK 9B
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Communication and Culture: Representation
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Hall, Stewart. Hall, Stuart, Representation & The Media”Lecture Transcript, Media Education Foundation, 1997.
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WK
10A
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Generalizations, Stereotypes, and Prejudice
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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. 226-250. (2013).
Recommended: Martin and Nakayama. “Ch. 12. Striving for Engaged And Effective Intercultural Communication”, Intercultural Communication in Contexts
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Wk 10B
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If weather permits – Walk in Rome’s Jewish Ghetto OR Film: 18 IUS Soli
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Recommended: “Ch. 5., Identity and Intercultural Communication,” in Martin and Nakayama. Intercultural Communication in Contexts
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WK 11A
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Comparing Cultures papers discussion
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COMPARING CULTURES ASSIGNMENT DUE
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11B
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Social In/Exclusion in Europe
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“It's Not Islam That Drives Young Europeans to Jihad, France's Top Terrorism Expert Explains”, Haaretz. June 4th, 2017.
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12A
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The Clash of Civilizations or the Clash of Ignorance? “Islam” vs. “The West”
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Edward Said, "The Clash of Ignorance", The Nation, October 4, 2001.
Recommended: Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?," Foreign Affairs, Vol 72, No. 3 (Summer 1993), pp. 22-49
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Wk 12B
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The Mediterranean Refugee Crisis
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Recommended: Martin and Nakayama. “Ch. 8. Understanding Intercultural Transitions, Intercultural Communication in Contexts
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WK 13A
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Gordon Allport’s “Contact hypothesis”
Film: Promises
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Maoz, Ifat. “Does contact work in protracted asymmetrical conflict?” Journal of Peace Research. 48 (1, pp. 115-125. 2011
Recommended
Martin and Nakayama. Intercultural Communication”, Intercultural Communication in Contexts . Pages 149-152
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WK13B
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Finish Film: Promises
- discussion
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Recommended:
Martin and Nakayama. “Ch. 12. Striving for Engaged And Effective Intercultural Communication”, Intercultural Communication in Contexts
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WK 14A
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catch up day
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WK 14B
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Review for final exam
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Exam Week
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FINAL EXAM
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Date & location will be listed on MyJCU
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