|
||||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
175-006 Cross-Cultural Communication | |
|---|---|
Note | Formerly available as 175-108. Students who have completed 175-108 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. Strict enrolment deadlines apply to subjects taught during the summer semester. Any enrolment in, or withdrawal from, this subject for the summer semester must be made in line with HECS census dates, see HECS census date. |
Availability | 1st year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr Lesley Stirling |
Semester | 2, repeat Summer (view timetable) |
Contact | An intensive 35 hours of lectures and tutorials offered over three weeks in Summer Semester or two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week in Semester 2 |
Subject Description | This subject involves the main components of communicative events across cultures, the main linguistic approaches to analysing them, how they vary in a range of cultures from around the world, and the difficulties and misunderstandings these differences create in inter-cultural and cross-gender communication. Specific topics include body language, titles and respect, turn-taking and turn maintenance, narrative structuring, intonation, requests, disagreement and criticism, information seeking, politeness, and business negotiation. The subject will be organised around case studies of half-a-dozen speech communities from around the world, such as French, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Anglo-Australian, and Aboriginal Australian. |
Assessment | A 1000 word assignment, a 2000 word research essay and a 1-hour exam. Students who complete the subject during the Summer Semester will complete the assessment after the teaching has concluded. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
Status: Official 2002 Last Modified: Tuesday May 07 22:11 SGML to HTML Conversion: Information Technology Services Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email Enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
![[Undergraduate Handbook]](http://www.unimelb.edu.au/img/sitebar/fill.gif){kind=small}
