The international students from Master of China Studies Program attended the professional and Mandarin courses after experiencing the fantastic freshmen orientation education and the National Day Golden Week. One of the courses is the 2-week intensive course: Intercultural Competence by Professor Mette Thunø, Dean of the Institute of Global Study of Denmark Aarhus University.
The globalization constantly serves to deepen the communication among people from different countries and cultural backgrounds. It is suggested by huge amounts of researches that increasing transnational companies and organizations need directions of the excepts in intercultural communication, in order to function effectively and develop well.Precisely on this purpose have people created the course of Intercultural Competence, which aims at fostering student’s competence of intercultural communication and the tolerance towards different cultures and providing the students with the analytic theories and instrument and improving their intercultural competence, so that they may understand varieties of cultural backgrounds.
The course consists of the Black Board on-line course(10.9-10.13), lectures(10.16-10.20) and workshop. The Black Board involves 5 themes——Introduction to definition and concepts of intercultural competence, Globalization theory, Theories and concepts of culture and identity. The lectures include Global Interactions and Intercultural Competence, Cultural Theories, Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Competence at the Global Workplace.
Mette Thunø delivered a lecture on Global Interactions and Intercultural Competence
More than 40 masters of Chinese Studies from America, Italy, German, Britain and other countries attended this course. Most of them said that they felt the novelty of attending intercultural course in China, as the environment and perspective were fresh new for them. The course archived good effect.
Cultural Theories workshop
The students observed the reactions of people from different cultural background through card game.
