KSCB728 Intercultural Communication

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
doc. Wei-lun Lu, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Wei-lun Lu, Ph.D.
Department of Chinese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Wei-lun Lu, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Chinese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 8:00–9:40 K23
Prerequisites
TYP_STUDIA ( N )
Students should be sufficiently proficient in Chinese (CEFR B1.2 or close to HSK 5), as collaboration in multi-cultural team is an essential part of this course, where Chinese is expected to be the main working language.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course is designed based on the principle of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), where students learn a subject and a second language at the same time. The course aims to equip students with:
- a critical attitude to cultural differences,
- analytical framework of communication across cultures,
- opportunities to discuss typical cases of cultural differences,
- compentence in mediating between cultures and in working in a multi-cultural team.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
- examine norms, values, beliefs, and social practices.
- recognize linguistic and attitudinal barriers to intercultural communication.
- master skills and strategies to work in a multi-cultural team.
Syllabus
  • Weekly reading materials and discussion topics will be announced in class.
  • 12.9: Week 1 (Course overview)
  • 19.9: Week 2 (dialects and accents)
  • 26.9: Week 3 (religion and intercultural communication)
  • 3.10: Week 4 (translation and intercultural communication I)
  • 10.10: Week 5 (literature and intercultural communication)
  • 17.10: Week 6 (literature and intercultural communication)
  • 24.10: Reading Week (NO CLASS)
  • 31.10: Week 7 (translation and intercultural communication II)
  • 7.11: Week 8 (food-related expressions in culture, with FJU)
  • 14.11: Week 9 (regional specialties of food and Brno's best, with FJU)
  • 21.11: Week 10 (gender from a socio-linguistic point of view, with FJU)
  • 28.11: Week 11 (grammatical gender and thinking, with FJU)
  • 5.12: Individual consultation
  • 12.12: Week 12
Literature
  • YAN, Xuetong. Ancient Chinese thought, modern Chinese power. Edited by Daniel Bell - Zhe Sun - Edmund Ryden. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, xiv, 300. ISBN 9780691148267. info
  • LAKOS, William. Chinese ancestor worship : a practice and ritual oriented approach to understanding Chinese culture. First published. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge scholars publishing, 2010, viii, 147. ISBN 9781443824958. info
  • Chinese migrants abroadcultural, educational, and social dimensions of the Chinese diaspora. Edited by Michael W. Charney - Brenda S. A. Yeoh - Chee Kiong Tong. River Edge, N.J.: World Scientific, 2003, xxv, 277 p. ISBN 9812380418. info
  • The remaking of the Chinese character and identity in the 21st centurythe Chinese face practices. Edited by Wenshan Jia. Westport, Conn.: Ablex Pub., 2001, xiv, 196 p. ISBN 1567505554. info
  • Encountering Chinese networksWestern, Japanese, and Chinese corporations in China, 1880-1937. Edited by Sherman Cochran. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2000, xii, 257 p. ISBN 0520216253. info
  • NYIRI, Pal. New Chinese migrants in Europe : the case of the Chinese community in Hungary. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999, vii, 144. ISBN 075461154X. info
  • NATHAN, Andrew J. Chinese democracy : Chinese democracy : an investigation into the nature and meaning of "democracy" in China today. With a report on the remarkable but short-lived democracy movement (Rozšíř.). 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985, xiii, 313. ISBN 0-394-51386-X. info
Teaching methods
Week 7-10 taught in hybrid form (co-taught with Dr. Emma Li of Fujen University, online + in person), the rest taught in person; online and in-person discussion in Chinese; most readings in English.
Assessment methods
- Two absences tolerated;
- The student should collaborate with Taiwanese students and produce two video clips, to upload to the Homework Vault of the IS: @ One clip on cultural elements in Brno, dubbed in Chinese. @ The other clip on Taiwanese culture, dubbed in Czech.
Language of instruction
Chinese
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2021, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2022, recent)
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