609.001 (16W) Intercultural skills
Overview
- Lecturer
- Course title german Interkulturelle Kompetenzen (Intercultural skills)
- Type Course (continuous assessment course )
- Hours per Week 1.0
- ECTS credits 2.0
- Registrations 10 (35 max.)
- Organisational unit
- Language of instruction no language of instruction was specified
- Course begins on 23.11.2016
- eLearning Go to Moodle course
Time and place
Course Information
Intended learning outcomes
Development of intercultural competence. Being able to reflect the situation of Expats Differ between Expats,Impats and other status of international employees.Knowing theoreticalapproaches to cultural dimensions. Knowing about the procedure in the onboarding process.
Teaching methodology including the use of eLearning tools
Epistemic Approach AND Meeting of Expats, Impats and their partners at the CIC Networking Session. Dates will be given.
Course content
The course will provide a cosmopolitical view to the daily life inglobal operating industrial companies in Carinthia and examine howintercultural/transcultural aspects are handled within diversity management inthose companies. Expats, Impats and their situation after relocation will bediscussed. For companies cultural diversity is crucial as heterogeneous teamsare the normality. Participants will learn about the implementation ofintercultural tools in diversity management in companies and are expected tounderstand the differences of transcultural, intercultural, pluralicultural andmulticultural approaches. Locomotion records and biographies will give aninsight into the situation of Expats and Impats. Group discussion will focus onthe advantages of intercultural competences.
Topics:
- Developing intercultural competences
- Tools of Diversity Management in regard to intercultural aspects
- Support measures for international employees
- Impact of Hofstede's work on Business
- Culture shock
- Factors that influence expatriate failure
Literature
Diversity Compass ofthe CIC Carinthian International Club Presentations uploaded in moodle • AckerlKonstantin, Katrin/Krautzer Rosalia. (2011). Innovative Kulturkonzepte undKunstprojekte im Kontext von Migration in Kärnten. In: Jahrbuch Friedenskultur2011, Bettina Gruber/Daniela Rippitsch (Hg); Klagenfurt/Celovec: Verlag Drava •Ackerl Konstantin, Katrin/Kopeinig, Rosalia. (2014). Bewegende Räume. In: ErolYildiz/Marc Hill (Hg.); Nach der Migration. Postmigrantische Perspektivenjenseits der Parallelgesellschaft, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag
Examination information
Grading scheme
Grade / Grade grading schemePosition in the curriculum
- Bachelor's degree programme Applied Business Administration
(SKZ: 518, Version: 14W.3)
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Subject: Internationale Kompetenz
(Compulsory subject)
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§9(3) Interkulturelle Kompetenz (
1.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
- 609.001 Intercultural skills (1.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
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§9(3) Interkulturelle Kompetenz (
1.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Internationale Kompetenz
(Compulsory subject)
- Master's degree programme Media and Convergence Management
(SKZ: 150, Version: 13W.2)
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Subject: Options
(Optional subject)
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Options (
0.0h XX / 6.0 ECTS)
- 609.001 Intercultural skills (1.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 3., 4. Semester empfohlen
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Options (
0.0h XX / 6.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Options
(Optional subject)
Equivalent courses for counting the examination attempts
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Sommersemester 2024
- 609.003 KS Intercultural Skills (parallel) (1.0h / 2.0ECTS)
- Wintersemester 2023/24
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Sommersemester 2023
- 609.003 KS Intercultural Skills (parallel) (1.0h / 2.0ECTS)
- Wintersemester 2022/23
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Sommersemester 2022
- 609.001 KS Interkulturelle Kompetenz (Intercultural Skills) (1.0h / 2.0ECTS)
- Wintersemester 2021/22
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Sommersemester 2021
- 609.001 KS Interkulturelle Kompetenz (Intercultural Skills) (1.0h / 2.0ECTS)
- Wintersemester 2020/21
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Sommersemester 2020
- 609.001 KS Interkulturelle Kompetenz (Intercultural Skills) (1.0h / 2.0ECTS)
- Wintersemester 2019/20
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Wintersemester 2018/19
- 609.001 KS Interkulturelle Kompetenzen (Intercultural skills) (1.0h / 2.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2017/18
- 609.001 KS Interkulturelle Kompetenzen (Intercultural skills) (1.0h / 2.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2015/16
- 609.001 KS Interkulturelle Kompetenz (1.0h / 2.0ECTS)
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Sommersemester 2015
- 609.001 KU Interkulturelle Kompetenz (1.0h / 2.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2014/15
- 609.001 KU Interkulturelle Kompetenz (1.0h / 2.0ECTS)