LM- 1481, Intercultural Communication, is a required course for the degree of Bachillerato en Inglés and Bachillerato en la Enseñanza del Inglés. It is the final oral course taken by English majors. A number of foreign students also register and as a result, the course is multicultural or bicultural, depending on the arrangement of the group. This course provides an overview of the study on culture and its relation to language and communication. It is designed to promote language fluency through cultural awareness on the premise that language is always used in context; therefore, the comprehension of cultural issues promotes effective and positive intercultural encounters.
The fundamental objective of this course is for students to:
Increase understanding of both their own cultural patterns of behavior as well as of those of people from different cultures and of the importance of cultural conditioning in language, behavior, and values.
This course is student-based. This means that it will be as interesting and challenging as the students make it. The topics discussed are often controversial and / or problematic, so the class also demands openness to new ideas and the ability to respectfully defend one's strongest ideological beliefs.
MATERIALS TO GET AS SOON AS POSSIBLE:
1. Course anthology: ready under the professor's name at "Copymundo."
2. "Limon Blues" by Ana Cristina Rossi: available at LibroMax and Libreria Internacional.
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Culture does not define an individual;rather, it affects the manner in which s/he feels, thinks, and acts, by dictating guidelines specific to a context.
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ResponderEliminaras I read the article about stereotypes, I realized how racist we are and we continue making jokes of some groups. As an anecdote I would like to say that yesterday I was having some fun with friends and we decided to go and take a look to a show in one hotel we were staying. after watching the show, we were shocked on how racist it was. They were making fun of many people, Chinese and Spanish mainly and what got our attention was the fact that they just got up and left the show and later we found out about the show and they saud they were offended instead of being entertained.
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