Intercultural Encounters: Skills and Concepts

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Intercultural skills and awareness are essential in our increasingly globalised lives. This module will introduce key issues and concepts in intercultural studies. You’ll examine these issues from cultural, historical, political, and theoretical perspectives. You’ll also have the opportunity to develop your intercultural skills. The module explores intercultural practices in digital environments. In particular, you’ll consider issues of power, creativity and manipulation. Some of the key questions the module addresses include:

How can ‘culture’ and the ‘intercultural’ be problematic concepts?
How has the field of intercultural communication developed historically?
What is ‘nation branding’ and what is soft power?
You’ll also learn research techniques in intercultural studies. You’ll begin to reflect on intercultural encounters from your own experience. This module usually includes a walking tour of ‘Little Germany’ in Bradford. During the field trip you’ll examine the city’s multicultural past and present.

Module subject to final approval.

Please note, the Leeds International Summer School runs for four weeks (2 - 30 July 2022). You can choose to study with us for two weeks or for the full four-week programme. Each module lasts two weeks so you study one module if you choose to attend for two weeks and two modules if you choose to attend for four weeks.

Course leader

Corinne Painter

Target group

Undergraduate/Bachelor students

Course aim

TBC

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