ATS2250 Communications and cultures in the global era

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Have been exposed to, and have a competent understanding of contemporary scholarship on the relationships between communications and culture;

2. 2

   Have acquired an informed understanding of how different worldviews impact on communications;

3. 3

   Have come to understand the processes of immigrants' economic and cultural adaptations as part of their development of effective intercultural communications;

4. 4

   Have obtained in-depth understanding of nonverbal communications;

5. 5

   Have developed greater capacities to deal with inter-ethnic tension for effective communications;

6. 6

   Have come to understand a range of theories on intercultural communications, e.g., cultural convergence theory, identity management theory, identity negotiation theory, communication accommodation theory, and cultural schema theory;

7. 7

   Have acquired an informed understanding of how ethnic identities and immigrant life are represented through a range of media.