Unit 4

Culture

UNIT LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • Define intercultural communication, including beliefs, values, and norms.
  • Discuss co-cultures and how they play a part in intercultural communication.
  • Consider 1st order and 2nd order realities and their effect on perception.
  • Define cultural practices in different cultures, including context, time, talk, silence, nonverbal communication, and the dimensions of culture.
  • Understand how organizational and occupational culture interplay with culture in general.
  • Practice cross-cultural communication through communication competence.
  • Understand how to learn about cultures.
  • Discuss international cultures co-existing within communities.
  • Analyze problems within cross-cultural communication.
  • Understand cultural issues and perception within multiple types of relationships.
  • Understand the effect of age, generation, race, gender, and disability in cultural communication.
  • Define Communication Accommodation Theory.
  • Discuss how CAT has been used in research between cultures, ages, and gender.

Table of Contents

Module 1: Culture and Communication

  • Intercultural communication defined
  • 1st order and 2nd order realities
  • Social Practices
  • Organizational culture
  • Occupational culture

Module 2: Cross-Cultural Communication

  • Communicating across cultures
  • Competence and cultural learning
  • Problems in cross-cultural communication
  • Biases
  • Improving cross-cultural relationships

Module 3: Communication Accommodation Theory

  • Principles of CAT
  • Use of CAT

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Shannon DeBord