CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION IN WESTERN EUROPE

COMARTS 373

The transnational movement of people, goods, and discourses blurs the boundaries between the local and global, making intercultural communication and rhetoric essential to our personal and public lives. We explore how rhetoric and communication function between and across cultures and examine how culture, history, and power constitute our cultural identities, our modes of communication, and how we engage with others.

GENBUS/INTLBUS 320

Develops awareness and knowledge of cultural influences on business. Focuses on various attitudes toward work, time, material possession, business, and the relationship of these attitudes to different social, religious, philosophical, and educational backgrounds of business people from cultures around the world.

GENBUS 360

Develop and practice workplace communication skills: writing, speaking, and listening. A theoretical foundation provides a method of deep audience analysis; apply that analysis when producing a variety of written genres and when preparing content for formal presentations. Research communication and information sources specific to future careers. Strengthen information literacy by developing professional research skills and analyzing sources. Revise written work through a workshop process that requires giving, receiving, and implementing feedback.

FRENCH/INTLBUS 313

Study and analysis of the culture and sociology of professional environments in the French and Francophone worlds, including government, international organizations, NGO's and business. Students develop communication skills through interactive teaching methods in multimedia labs.

ANTHRO/LINGUIS 430

The relationship of language as a communication system to the culture transmitted by it. Principle problems in the interrelations of language and nonlinguistic human behavior.