Modulbeschreibung

The course aims at:

• Reflecting on the role of culture as a group phenomenon
• Learning on Intercultural Competence as an essential competence in a globalized world
• Developing sensitivity for the cultural influence on your own and other people's values, norms, and habits.
• Reflecting cultural identity
• understand the psychological dynamics of intercultural situations in various professional fields
• developing intercultural competence in order to be able to work productively with people from other cultural backgrounds 

• The different lenses of culture
• Development of intercultural sensitivity
• Reflection on own and foreign cultural values and norms and their impact on professional cooperation
• Dynamics of intercultural encounters:
• Culture and social perception: errors of judgement, stereotypes, prejudice,
• Communication, negotiation and conflict styles
• Dynamics of international assignments
• Migration, Acculturation, Integration
• Conceptual tools for describing cultures: Cultural dimensions, Cultural standards, Cultural styles
• Intercultural Leadership
• Intercultural Teamwork
• Intercultural Engineering
• Intercultural Usability Design
• Intercultural Marketing 

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