Intercultural Dialogue (winter semester)

Timetable

Wednesday
13.30-15.00
Collegium Maius
Fredry 10 Street
room 218

dr Borys Szumański 

email: borysszumanski@amu.edu.pl

Classes Schedule 

 

1. Wednesday 4th of October — Integration, plans and expectations
   Literature: —
   
2. Wednesday 11th of October — On culture and different approaches to studying it
   Literature: Delanoy W. (2020). What is culture? [In:] The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication, ed. by G. Rings, S. Rasinger, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 17-34

 

3. Wednesday 18th of October — How to learn basing on experience? (Workshop)
   Literature: —

 

4. Wednesday 25th of October — Describing differences — Intercultural psychology
   Literature: Hofstede, G. (2011). Dimensionalizing Cultures: The Hofstede Model in Context. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.9707/2307-0919.1014

 

5. Wednesday 8th of November — Communication skills (Workshop)
   Literature: —

 

6. Wednesday 15th of November — Ethnocentrism and Ethnorelativism
   Literature: Bennett, M. J. (1986). A developmental approach to training for intercultural sensitivity. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 10(2), pp. 179–196.
7. Wednesday 22nd of November — On Acculturation
   Literature: Berry, J. W. (2006). Contexts of acculturation. [In:] D. Sam, J. W. Berry (Red.). The Cambrigde handbook of acculturation psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 27-43. 

 

8. Wednesday 29th of November — Intercultural stress management (Workshop)
   Literature: —  

 

9. Wednesday 6th of December — Language and Culture I - Universalism
   Literature: Wierzbicka, Anna. (2001) Introduction [In:]. What Did Jesus Mean?.Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 3-26. 

 

10. Wednesday 13th of December — Language and Culture II - Translation Turn
    Literature:
    a) Eeven-Zohar, I. (1990). The Position of Translated Literature within the Literary Polysystem. [In:] Polysystem Studies. Durham NC: Duke University Press, pp. 45-51.
    b) Toury, G. (1995). Translations as facts of a ‘target’ culture. An assumption and its methodological implications [In:] Descriptive Translation Studies and beyond. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins,  pp. 17-34.

 

11. Wednesday 20h of December — Food, cuisine and culture
    Literature:
    a) Levi-Strauss C. (2008). The culinary triangle [in:] Food and Culture: A Reader. Londyn, Routledge, p. 40-48.  

 

12. Wednesday 10th of January — Gender in intercultural context (Workshop)
    Literature: —
13. Wednesday 17th of January — Intercultural communication in pop culture
    Literature:
    a) Sapkowski, A. The Edge of the World, (2007). In: The Last wish. London: Orion Publishing Group.
    b) The Witcher Netflix Series, ep. 2. „Four Marks”, Lauren Schmidt, 2019.

 

14. Wednesday 24th of January  - What have we learned? Summing up and afterthought
    Literature: — 

 

15. Wednesday 31th of January - Final test 

Course credit conditions: What do I need to do in order to get credit?

— You have to earn at least 51% points during the final test
— You have to make a short presentation of a Critical Cultural Incident during classes

Module aim (aims)

• basic issues and vocabulary related to the theory of culture and intercultural communication
• analysis of cultural texts and situations in which intercultural content appears

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

• competence in the field of the student’s native culture
• ability to establish and maintain contact with representatives of other cultures

Syllabus

Course learning content:

Culture and acculturation

Core assumptions of intercultural communication

Auto- and heterostereotypes

The concept of multiculturalism

Intercultural differences in the language and texts of culture

Analysis and interpretation of texts

 

Reading list

1. T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension, 1990.
2. The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication, ed. by G. Rings, S. Rasinger, Cambridge
3. Stier, Intercultural communication and intercultural competence, January 2009, „Journal of Intercultural Communication” 11.
4. Cultures of Economy in South-Eastern Europe. Spotlights and Perspectives, ed. by Murašov, D. Beganovic, A. Lešic, Bielefeld 2019.
5. Wierzbicka, Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, Japanese, 1997.
6. Wierzbicka Cliff Goddard, Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures, Oxford 2014.