Course: Intercultural Communication II

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Course title Intercultural Communication II
Course code KGER/KN14
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hrdličková Jana, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Liebig Linda
Course content
1. Introduction, plan of the course 2. The terms intercultural communication (Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink), interculturality, multiculturality and transculturality; 3. Nelly Sachs: "Kommt einer von ferne" (1959) 4. Staying abroad and returning home with respect to interculturality 5. Irena Brežná: Die undankbare Fremde (2012) 6. Tourist guidance and interculturality theoretically I (Marcella Costa) 7. Tourist guidance and interculturality theoretically II 8. - 9. Mediation of knowledge of culture during a guided tour with the aspect of interculturality: training in guided tours of Ústi nad Labem by the students of German department in German 1. Introduction, plan of the course 2. The terms intercultural communication (Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink), interculturality, multiculturality and transculturality; 3. Nelly Sachs: "Kommt einer von ferne" (1959) 4. Staying abroad and returning home with respect to interculturality 5. Irena Brežná: Die undankbare Fremde (2012) 6. Tourist guidance and interculturality theoretically I (Marcella Costa) 7. Tourist guidance and interculturality theoretically II 8. - 9. Mediation of knowledge of culture during a guided tour with the aspect of interculturality: training in guided tours of Ústi nad Labem by the students of German department in German

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course folows the seminar "Intercultural Communication I". In its first, theoretical part the terms intercultural communication, interculturality, multiculturality and transculturality will be discussed. Then it focuses on the problems connected with long term staying abroad and returning home and with dual career couples. At the end the course is dedicated to the topic of tourist guiding theoretically as well as practically. The students will be encouraged to guide internationale guests in Ústí nad Labem in German.
Students - are able to work with basic terms of intercultural communication and are acquainted with its theory - are able to read secondary literature in German and to outline its basic theoretical outcome of international tourist guiding and to apply it in practice.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Active participation in seminars, a paper and presentation on a given topic
Recommended literature
  • COSTA, Marcella. Stadtführungen unter der Bedingung von Fremdheit und Fremdsprachigkeit. In: Costa, Marcella/Müller-Jacquier, Bernd (Hg.): Deutschland als fremde Kultur: Vermittlungsverfahren in Touristenführungen. München, 2010.
  • Jana Hrdličková. Interkulturelle Kommunikation II. Ústí nad Labem, 2021.
  • Lüsebrink, H.-J. Interkulturelle Kommunikation. Stuttgart/Weimar, 2012.


Study plans that include the course
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