Intercultural Communication . With a goal of understanding the perspectives of other cultures and resolving possible conflicts, students will examine the role of perception, language, belief systems, social structures and culture practices. Applications will be made to specific cultures.
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All ODU students are required to take a basic English writing course like ENGL110. The predominate approach to teaching intercultural communication courses, however, is to discuss intercultural issues, but not take action. The approach in this course is to go beyond talk of how we can form better multicultural communities and actually develop action-oriented communication campaigns that hopefully bring about a better community. Also, any intercultural course should be highly relevant to students in the course. The predominant mode of teaching intercultural communication courses is to focus on the intercultural communication effectiveness and intercultural adaptation for sojourners who travel abroad to other countries.