Textbook: Samovar L.A., Porter R. E., McDaniel, E. R., and Roy, C. S. (2013/2010). Communication
between cultures. (8th edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning
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Part 1 Importance of Intercultural Communication in Personal, Social and Political Life (Chapter 1, 300 words minimum)
Q1. Read the assigned chapter, and summarize and review your reading. Please be specific with the key notions and their page numbers. How would you state the importance of intercultural communication? (Hint: the importance should be best summarized in different points and explained with supportive details.) In other words, your response should prove that you have finished the reading assignment so make sure you provide your reading review with specific page numbers.
Q2. In which ways can you relate the importance of intercultural communication to your own personal, social life, and political life? Please give examples from your own experiences.
Part 2 Importance of Intercultural Communication in Professional setting or Working Life (Chapters 6 or 10, 200 words minimum)
Q1. What have you learned from the assigned chapters? Please be specific with the key notions and their page numbers in the textbook.
Q2. Why do we have to prepare ourselves for a culturally diversified working place? Why do we need to learn how to work as a team with people of different cultures? Please try to use your firsthand experiences or observation in your own professional or working relationships.
Q3. In managing professional or workplace conflicts, how would you differentiate conflicts due to cultural differences from conflicts due to personal differences? If you have your own experiences, please review, analyze and share them. If not, please do some research to read others’ discussion on this issue. If you do research please make sure you cite your references in APA (standard communication style manual) or MLA.
Part 3. Cultural DNA (Chapters 3 & 4, 500 words minimum) Q1. Chapters 3 & 4 are a must read. Read the chapters, and summarize and review your reading. Please be specific with the key notions and their page numbers. In other words, your response should prove that you have finished the reading assignments so make sure you provide your reading review with specific page numbers.
Q2. In which ways our cultural deep structure (e.g. family and history) and our intercultural encounters interact and influence with each other? In which ways they can impact or even re-shape each other? give concrete examples from your own experiences of such mutual impacts.
Or if you do not have any of your own experiences, you can do some research on the topic. If you do research please make sure you cite your references in APA (standard communication style manual) or MLA.
