Coping with Culture

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce students to a discipline-specific (e.g., Hotel and Restaurant Management; Agribusiness; International Finance, Business and Banking; Languages for Vocalists, Scientists, et al.; Travel Industry; Medical Professions, etc.) understanding of cultural differences and to provide them with a limited vocabulary specific to their discipline. It gives students a rudimentary idea of how languages (e.g., French, German, Spanish) work, and helps them achieve a basic level of expression in these languages in situations relative to their profession. In this semester-long course, students rotate every five weeks from one language instructor to another.