Modern Languages and Intercultural Competence

Catalog description

The course is delivered in English with a specific focus on one or more other modern languages. It is divided into four basic modules: intercultural communication and understanding otherness; comparative linguistics and how language, geography, and cultural history shape thinking; cultural aesthetics, artistic analysis and comparison; and multicultural audiences and communicating effectively for different purposes, places and people. Students are trained in rhetoric in an intercultural context, and will advance their oral and visual communication skills through assignments that require them to consider their own positions, present audience-appropriate messages and arguments, and acknowledge multiple and contradictory perspectives.