Undergraduate - UnitATS3064 - Intercultural communication: Developing competences in a multicultural context

This research-led intensive unit aims at equipping students with some conceptual clues to better adapt themselves to an internationalised environment and to challenge their superficial perceptions of "others". With campuses and centres located in Asia, in Africa and in Europe, Monash University is a perfect environment to provide students with strategic tools to understand and manage their intercultural experience in multicultural context(s). Combining personal enrichment and future career development, the course will familiarize students with key concepts on Intercultural Communication. The unit will provide the critical tools for ethnographic research and will engage students through face-to-face and online activities (case studies, role plays, simulations, reflective journal, forum). Designed to follow principles of experiential learning, the course will allow students to complete guided cultural interactions and to produce self-reflection on their cultural experience. It will also give them a range of skills in intercultural management which are relevant in a wide range of disciplines, and which will increase their employability profile for international positions.