Communication 2560- Intercultural Communication

  • True Blue Core Knowledge Domain: Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE) (9hours) 

    • For all catalogs 2024-2025 and beyond, this course (3 hours) satisfies the True Blue Core curriculum requirement for Explorations in Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE). To learn more about TBC requirements: https://w1.mtsu.edu/truebluecore/core.php. 
    • For all catalogs prior to 2024-2025, this course may NOT be used to satisfy general education requirements. Students wishing to switch to the 2024-2025 catalog should see their advisors to discuss the implications of changing catalogs. To learn more about general education requirements for catalogs prior to 2024-2025: https://w1.mtsu.edu/gen_ed/requirements.php 
    • The TBC outcome for Explorations in Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE): Students demonstrate intercultural understanding by building knowledge, self-awareness, and conceptions of global and intercultural perspectives, values, systems, and attitudes. 

Description:

This course offers an overview of the study of intercultural communication by examining how cultures vary and how cultural variations influence the communication process. Students learn the concepts and principles of effective communication across cultural/co-cultural boundaries through reading, lecture, activity, discussion, and various other assignments.

See the sample syllabus

Director of the True Blue Core
Susan Myers-Shirk, Ph.D.
Professor of History

Assistant Director
Dr. Christina Cobb
Associate Professor, University Studies

Administrative Coordinator
Abby Arnold

Graduate Assistant
Molly Walters

Contact Information
core@mtsu.edu
615-898-5624


Institutional Memberships

  • Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)
  • Association for General & Liberal Studies (AGLS)

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