Intercultural Competences
What can you learn in this course?
- You can explain why cultural awareness and managing cultural diversity successfully matter.
- You gain awareness about your intercultural challenges and the difficulties of cultural change.
- You can describe what culture and the cultural iceberg is.
- You know the insights and the limits of the classical intercultural studies.
- You can apply the Bolten model (zooming in/zooming out), the Berardo model (5Rs) and the PSC model which help you to cope with intercultural challenges and the difficulties of cultural change.
- You know the essential German cultural standards,
be also aware that people may deviate from these standards and you can
apply strategies of how to best interact with different German partners.
- You get some information about studying at Technische Hochschule Lübeck and about living and travelling in Germany.
Outline
Chapter 1: Organisation
Chapter 2: The importance of intercultural competences (First online meeting)
Chapter 3: The facets of culture and how to embrace them (First self-study unit)
Chapter 4: "I am what I am and your are what you are...so what does that mean for us?" (Second online meeting)
Chapter 5: Classic intercultural studies and their limits (Second self-study unit)
Chapter 6: Classic intercultural studies, their limits and recent approaches (Third online meeting)
Chapter 7: Tach zusammen! Grüß Gott! Moin! Meet the Germans... (Third self-study unit)
Chapter 8: Enlarge your intercultural tool kit (Fourth online meeting)
Chapter 9: Setting sails for the future
Further authors
Dr. Gabi Kratochwil is a top expert and trainer in the field of intercultural competences with over 25 years experience.
Target group
International students, prospective students