Intercultural Communications and Global Awareness
Fall & Winter 2024-25
This course aims to introduce you to the field of Intercultural communication (ICC)—the exchange of information and understanding between people from different cultural backgrounds—to thereby improve your ability to communicate and connect on the local/global stage.
Objectives:
Learn the theory: from the interrelatedness of culture, language, and socialization, to nonverbal mis/communication across cultures; from the mechanisms of power and identity in and around intercultural conflict, to the complex arena of intercultural relationships, and global citizenship.
Understand and debate about complex phenomena such as political scapegoating, hip hop beefs, intercultural dating/relationships, the global workplace and more.
Plan and carry out, as a class, your very own cross-cultural project!
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Meet your professor
Profe Felipe Quetzalcoatl Quintanilla
Welcome to the course! I am Prof. Felipe Q. Quintanilla..
I am a native speaker of Spanish, originally from Mexico City, with teaching experience in the fields of cultural studies, film studies and second language acquisition at the post secondary level, both in Canada and the across the US (from Vermont to California, to Pennsylvania).
Please always reach out with any question or suggestions.
Looking forward to meeting you in person,
Profe Q.
Prof. Felipe Q. Quintanilla
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Department of Languages and Cultures
The University of Western Ontario
Email: fquinta@uwo.ca
