- •Developing Skills in Intercultural Communication Read and analyze the cases. For your analysis use the “Guidelines for Analyzing Cases” in Handout 9.
- •American Hosts
- •Наши в Америке
- •Was Somebody Saying No?
- •Most Misunderstood Passenger
- •U.N. Survey
- •Peggy’s Expectations
- •Central Asia’s Magic Bus Ride
- •Cultural shock, or welcome to Kazakhstan
- •How not to be clever. By George Mikes
- •The Russian Style of Business
- •From Headlight, Russia, 2000
- •To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II:
- •A Peruvian’s Experience
- •An Overseas Transfer
- •The Shinto Priest
- •My African Posting
- •Visiting a Japanese Home
- •Korean vs. American Values
- •Caregiver
- •American Character
- •Missing Her Appointment
- •Efficiency
- •Understanding Another Person
- •Chinese Guests
- •Living in a Foreign Country
- •A Honolulu Barbershop
- •An Obsession
- •Challenges of Traveling
- •Misunderstandings
- •What Was It that You Said?
- •Gender Issues
- •Reflection
Reflection
Now that you have finished your course in Intercultural Communication, take some time to reflect on what you have experienced and learned.
1. This course is useful for your future profession
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___ No
___ I don’t know
2. You study this course …
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___ for academic purposes
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3. Your overall impression of the Intercultural communication course is that it is…
___ very useful for professional career
___ fairly good
___ useless
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4. You find most difficult to …
___ meet the deadlines
___ do home assignments
___ do SIS tasks
___ follow the teacher’s instructions in class
___ do tests or quizzes
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5. What you like most in the course is …
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6. What you dislike most in the course is ….
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7. You suggest improving the course by ….
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Summarize your leanings and thoughts (this is for yourself):
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Write a few thoughts to yourself about what you plan to do as a follow-up to your Insights:
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Circle one as a commitment to yourself for the next three months.