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This is one in a series of tutorials on intercultural communication. Click on "mobile page" at the bottom right side of the page for alternative views. You may create a print version by clicking on the "print all" link at the top of the page. Note that additional learning resources are linked in the sidebars.

Anticipated completion time for this tutorial (excluding reading chapter): approximately 100 minutes. Note that you can stop and come back and your score on completed items will be retained.

Learning Objectives

The objectives below can be achieved through working with the assigned readings, watching the presentations, doing the tutorial exercises, and posting to the discussion forums. Achievement of the objectives will be measured through the score achieved on the exercises (questions can be answered more than once), on the Blackboard quiz for this unit, and on the quality of contributions to the course discussion forums.dolphines_espanol.png

By successfully completing this unit, students should be able to...
  • List and discuss the benefits of intercultural communication
  • Recognize the increasing racial and ethnic diversity in the U.S.
  • Discuss the role that technology is playing today in communication
  • Identify and discuss the different dimensions of communication
  • Define and discuss the nature of culture
  • Discuss intercultural communication as an academic discipline
  • Identify/discuss the different contexts in which intercultural communication takes place
  • Discuss the relationship between intercultural communication, uncertainty, and anxiety
  • Identify and discuss key fundamental assumptions of intercultural communication

Resources for this unit

  • Chapter 1, Neuliep, Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach
  • Key terms from the chapter (last page of this tutorial)
  • Chapter summary (in Blackboard: Course Library > Textbook Resources)
  • 2 presentations, 10 exercises, & 1 self-assessment survey (in this tutorial)
  • External readings by Thurston and Covarrubias (see info in Blackboard)
  • Discussion forum: What's in a name
  • Unit Opener: Turkish-German Rap (next page)

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