Culture-Intercultural Communication and its fundamental principles
This seminar will provide an overview of the key notions of culture. It will examine the importance of cultural awareness and cultural understanding through various cultural dimensions. Moreover, it will cover key concepts and principles of intercultural communication. Examples of how communication is impacted in a culturally diverse milieu will be provided. How culture influences verbal and non-verbal communicator will be discussed. Other focus areas include culture shock, cultural stereotypes and prejudices will be covered.
Teacher: Dr. Ioannis Karras
Language Attitudes, Culture, Identity and Power or Us and the Others
Language attitudes affect a continuum constituted by language, society and culture as its central notions. Language attitudes are actually the feelings people have about their own language or the languages of others, and further defined, as the individuals' psychological construction regarding their own language and/or the languages of others. Because the political, cultural or economic situation of a country may change at any time, language attitudes are also changing and may produce a different language status among its speakers and/or potential speakers. As a consequence, the changing speaker's attitude as a non-linguistic parameter of the political, social and cultural contexts is a very important topic in language attitude studies and affects language status with its niches and needs.
We will examine the different components coming from different scholars, which determine a language's status and power with regard to language production e.g. in major and minor languages, cultures and literatures as well as domain loss in scientific writing.
Teacher: Prof. Dr. Anastasia Parianou
So you think you know about culture and diversity in communication!
In this seminar we will look at the role 'culture' plays in intercultural communication. The seminar will have both theoretical and experiential elements. Beginning with a historical review towards understanding culture and the role it has played through history in terms of communication, we will move onto identifying the determinant of culture and how they relate to one's identity and how that colors what and how we see things. Experiential activities geared towards enabling the participants to understand their cultural and social identities and how these play critical roles in successful intercultural communication.
Teacher: Dr. Julia A. Spinthourakis
At the crossroads: Intercultural awareness through literature
This two-day hands-on, interactive workshop centers on raising intercultural awareness by weaving the cultural, linguistic and thematic strands of world literature into a multicultural tapestry, working within the theoretical framework of reader-response criticism, transformative learning and diversity.
Teacher: Dr. Vasilios Zorbas
