INTR 562: Foundations of Intercultural Communication

This course will help you gain a deeper understanding of what it means to communicate the Gospel in another culture. This includes an increased ability to identify and accept diversity in other cultures, empathize more effectively with persons of different cultures, identify the principal cultural values and world view of your own culture as well as the cultures of others, and employ more effective intercultural communication skills.

In this course, we will seek to:

• Explain the process of intercultural communication.

• Present several aspects of culture which are critical in intercultural communication, including contextuality, individualism vs. collectivism, power distance, and gender roles.

• Examine factors necessary for developing competent intercultural communication skills.

• Combine all of the above in examining selected aspects of intercultural communication, including communicating Christ, developing friendships, and dealing with conflict in the intercultural setting.

Click here for online INTR 561 materials (the first half of INTR 561 is the same as INTR 562)

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 3:15 - 5 p.m.

Credit, Concurrent Enrollment: Two semester hours or noncredit. This course may be taken with any course or combination of courses offered at ICCT.