Section 1. Guidelines for cross-cultural communication
Intercultural understanding is both an approach and an outcome of the learning process. It promotes critical sensitivity to cultural differences among peoples within nations as well as across nations. This approach promotes equal value in all human life and serves for preparation for membership in a diverse and pluralistic global community. Students are encouraged to develop the knowledge and skills required to negotiate and flourish in a diverse, transnational environment and to continue their engagement in critical analysis of cultural relationships both across and within nations. They are to achieve goals that promote intercultural understanding:
· Disposition towards lifelong learning that includes a critical engagement with cultures.
· Recognition and value for one’s own cultures as well as the cultures of others.
· Knowledge of cultural differences among peoples within nations as well as across nations.
· Development of global citizens and preparation for active membership in a diverse and pluralistic global community.
· Development of skills to negotiate and flourish in a culturally diverse environment.
Text 1-10. HOW TO TEACH MULTICULTURAL COMMUNICATION
(After B. Saint-Jacques’ Worldview in Intercultural Communication. A Religio-Cosmological Approach. In L. Samovar, R. Porter, E. McDaniel, (Eds.),InterculturalCommunication. A Reader)