Professional Skills - Intercultural Skills

1.5 EC

Semester 1 & 2, period 1, 4

5224PSIS2Y

Owner Master Biological Sciences
Coordinator P.A. Vromans MSc
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Course manual 2023/2024

Course content

Our workplaces have become more diverse and multicultural. To be successful in the 21st century workplace, we need to be able to communicate and behave effectively with people from other cultural backgrounds. In these interactive training sessions, we will explore how culture influences how we interpret the world, what we expect from our team members, how we communicate, make decisions, our approach to work and deadlines, and much more. We will not only learn what to take into account when working with people from another country, but also other types of diversity such as generation, academic discipline and religion. In addition, you will learn more about yourself, your values, preferences and behaviors. We will develop and practice different intercultural skills, such as switching communication styles, and strategies to be more effective in a multicultural team and workplace. The training takes an experiential learning approach, where we use our in- and out- of-class experiences to learn from them.

Objectives

  • Increase awareness of your own cultural values, behaviors and biases
  • Recognize and understand what motivates others’ behavior in intercultural situations
  • Learn to communicate more effectively in intercultural contexts
  • Learn to work more successfully in multicultural teams

Teaching methods

  • Seminar
  • Self-study

Learning activities

Activity

Hours

Werkcollege

8

Self study & assignments

34

Total

42

(1.5 EC x 28 uur)

Attendance

Requirements of the programme concerning attendance (OER-B):

  1. Attendance during practical components exercises is mandatory.

Assessment

Item and weight Details

Final grade

All assignments should be completed. Pass/fail on the basis of a rubric. 

Inspection of assessed work

On Canvas

Assignments

Weekly assignments are individual. You will receive feedback and assignments will be graded pass/fail with a rubric. 

Fraud and plagiarism

The 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' applies to this course. This will be monitored carefully. Upon suspicion of fraud or plagiarism the Examinations Board of the programme will be informed. For the 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' see: www.student.uva.nl

Course structure

Week Topic Materials Deadline assignment
1 Cultural self-awareness See Canvas 15th September
2 Cultural awareness See Canvas 22 September
3 Intercultural communication See Canvas 29 September
4 Intercultural case See Canvas 6th October 

Timetable

The schedule for this course is published on DataNose.

Contact information

Coordinator

  • P.A. Vromans MSc