This course provides an introduction to how people communicate across cultures. It will look at examples of, and the reasons for, successful and unsuccessful cases of intercultural communication. This course aims to provide students with the tools they need to become competent and confident communicators across a range of intercultural communication contexts. There will also be a focus on how communication and culture shape each other, and how various socio-cultural factors and issues affect and are affected by communication.

CILO-1: Understand, describe and use key theories of intercultural communication. CILO-2: Use their theoretical understanding to conduct a basic analysis of specific intercultural communication practices. CILO-3: Use those principles and knowledge in their own intercultural encounters and practices. CILO-4: Describe and explain the contexts of intercultural communication. CILO-5: Function effectively in intercultural communication contexts.