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Course Description
This course is designed to help students strengthen intercultural communication awareness and skills. Reading materials include a reader from an MIT senior seminar course and authentic research publications on intercultural communication and intercultural competences.
There will be two major group projects: 1) working in small groups to research on a "cultural other" and then create video lessons to present your findings; 2) working in regular groups to teach a lesson on a research article about intercultural communication.
Individual-based assignments will be more challenging than before, including a "summary and response" paper (750 w), a research paper (conference paper about 12 pages), and an annotated bibliography on the research topic of personal choices.
Generally speaking, this semester will help students learn: 1) how to read faster and understand better research articles; 2) how to plan a research and prepare an annotated bibliography, and 3) how to write summaries, reviews, and extended research papers. Class discussions and online peer workshops are purported to stimulate your critical thinking and help your revise the argumentative research paper.
The SPOC session aims to promote the e-learning environment. It will provide courseware for your preview and review, discuss and peer evaluation. It is an indispensable part from off-line activities. Therefore, students' individual participations will count as 10% of the semester grade.
Major Assignments and Evaluation
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Participation in class | 5 |
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SPOC submitted reading journals (6 entries each >500 w) on research articles in Samovar, et al., Intercultural Communication | 10 | (9/21, 10/19, 11/23) |
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Essays | Research paper topic proposal (optional) |
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Summary and response paper (750 w) | 10 | Oct.. 12 |
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Annotated bibliography (8-10 sources published since 2005) | 10 | Nov. 2; 16 |
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Research paper (1,500 w) | 15 | Dec. 15 |
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Research project “The Cultural Other” | 5 | Sept. 14; Oct. 26 |
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Team Teaching (lesson plan; ppt and supporting materials Dec. 15) | 5 | 11/30; 12/7; 14; 21 |
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Final Exam: In-Class Close-Book Writing about ICComm | 5 | Dec. 21 |
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Speaking & Listening | 25 | TBA |
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Grade Final Exam | 10 | TBA |
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Total | 100 |
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Grading Scheme
Excellent | Good | Satisfactory | Poor | Minimal Pass | Failure |
A = 90-100 | B+ = 85-89 | C+ = 75-79 | D+ = 65-69 | D = 60-64 | F = 59 or less |
| B =80-84 | C = 70-74 |
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I will grade and return your submitted assignments within two weeks.
Your final grade will be based on your work in the course. If you are concerned about a grade, come to see me by appointment.
You are responsible for all assignments in this course and must complete ALL required work to receive a passing grade.
NO more than 15 % of one paper is allowed to be written by or quoted from others.
Tentative Course Schedule
W | D | Discussion Subjects | Class Activities | Handouts & Readings | Paper due |
1 | 9/7 | ° Course Introduction; ° Approaches of cultural studies ° Globalization | ° Semester overview; ° New team leaders; ° Discussion on the course design | ° Syllabus and course schedule ° Xu, Unit I, Rdg 1, “Intercultural communication” (pp. 3-9) ° Li, Study resources on SPOC ° Prompt: “The Cultural Other” ° S & R paper prompt | Reading journals from the summer |
2 | 14 | ° Culture and cultural patterns; ° Environment and culture | ° Defining culture; ° Discussion on cultural patterns; ° Approaches to cultural studies | ° Xu, II.1: “What is culture?” pp. 39-43; III.2: “Comparing and contrasting cultures” pp. 85-89 ° McDaniel et al. in Samovar et al., pp. 1-17 | Topic report for “The Cultural Other”（about countries or regions） |
3 | 21 | ° Religion and cultural identity ° Doctrine of Christianity | ° Case study (1): Exploration of religion and cultural history | ° Hughes, “Salvation”; ° Film Crash
| Reading Journal (2 entries) |
4 | 28 | ° Cultural identity ° Issues of belonging ° Post-colonial culture
| ° Mapping different cultural values ° Case study (2): Antigua | ° Kincaid, “Girl” ° Film Babel
| Research topic proposal (optional) |
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6 | 10 /12 | ° Language and cultural identity | ° Case study (3): Chinese American ethnic and cultural identity | ° Tan, “Mother Tongue”; ° Films Eat a Bowl of Tea and Joy Luck Club ° Research paper prompt | S&R paper due
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7 | 19 | ° Language and Communication ° Elements of communication | ° Cross-cultural problems in communication;
| ° Xu, II.2 “Elements of communication; ° Xu, IV.1-2 pp. 118-123; 128-132; ° Paper prompt for “Annotated Bibliography” | Reading Journal (2 entries) |
8 | 26 | ° Language and culture ° Verbal Communication | ° Case analysis | ° Xu, V.1 “Understanding the cultural of conversation,” pp. 157-160; V. 2 “The way people speak,” 164-169 | “The Cultural Other” (Project due） |
9 | 11/2 | ° Culture and Non-verbal Communication | ° Group reports and evaluation of “The Cultural Other” | ° Xu, VI.1 “An overview of non-verbal communication,” pp. 190-199 | Annotated bibliography due online |
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| 11/9 | ° Time and Space across Cultures | ° Cultural conceptions of time; ° Cultural use of space | ° Xu, VII.1, 2: “The heartbeat of culture,” “The language of space,” pp. 229-232; 239-243; ° Research paper prompt | Team Teaching articles |
11 | 16 | ° Cultural Conflicts; ° Culture Shock; ° Intercultural Adaptation | ° Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism; ° IC sensitivity and comm effectiveness | ° Xu, VIII “Cross-cultural perception”; ° Xu, IX “Intercultural adaptation” | Annotated bibliography (revision in print) |
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| 23 | ° Acquiring ICComp; ° Writing research paper | ° Culture & education; ° Cultural and social responsibility | ° UNESCO, Intercultural competences: Conceptual and operational framework | Reading Journal (2 entries) |
13 | 30 | ° TBA | ° Team teaching (1) | ° TBA |
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° TBA | ° Team teaching (2) | ° TBA | |||
14 | 12/7 | ° TBA | ° Team teaching (4) | ° TBA | 1st draft for research paper |
° Peer review workshop | ° Research paper review and revise | ° Video lesson “How to write an extended paper?” | |||
15 | 14 | ° TBA | ° Team teaching (4) | ° TBA | Team Project (Lesson plan; ppt ) |
° TBA | ° Team teaching (5) | ° TBA | |||
16 | 21 | ° TBA | ° Team teaching (6) | ° TBA | Research paper |
° Final Exam | ° In-class writing |
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TBA | Grade Final Exam |
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One-year study of "College English Integrated Course"
Required Textbooks
Li, H. (2016). College English Writing. Beijing: Higher Education Press.
Samovar, L. A., R. E. Porter, and E. R. McDaniel. (2015). Intercultural Communication: A Reader. 12th ed. Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Xu, L. (2013). Intercultural communication in English. Revised ed. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education.
Supplementary matericals (including newspaper articles, fiction, films, songs…)
References
Brown, H. D. (2013). Tips for teaching culture: Practical approaches to intercultural communication. Beijing: Tsinghua Univ. Press.
Davis, L. (2010; 2001). Doing culture: Cross-cultural communication in action. Beijing: Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Kim, Y. Y. (2014). Becoming intercultural: An integrative theory of communication and cross-cultural adaptation. Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Martin, J. N. and T. K. Nakayama. (2009). Intercultural communication in contexts. 4th ed. Beijing: Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Mo, A. and Mo, F. (Eds.) (2016). Intercultural Communication: Theory and Practice. Beijing UP.
Samovar, L. A., R. E. Porter, & E. R. McDaniel. (2010; 2007). Communication between cultures. 7th ed. Printed in Canada. Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
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