Topics covered include:
- how verbal and non-verbal communication can create barriers that may lead to cultural misunderstanding
- sociocultural norms
- politeness, respect and power, and etiquette.
Our non-credit workshops run on Wednesday afternoons in Weeks 11 and 17 in Autumn and are repeated in Weeks 27 and 30 in Spring (sign up below) and will be repeated in the Spring Term. These workshops do not carry academic credits but are particularly useful if you are planning to study abroad as part of your degree at Kent.
Our credit-bearing module, ENLA4007 Talking Cultures: Exploring Intercultural Awareness Competencies, runs in the Autumn term and the Spring term.
Talking Cultures workshop themes
| Workshop | Code |
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Cultural Knowledge and Identity Autumn: Week 17; Wed 27th November Spring: Week 27; Wed 05th February |
INTL3340 |
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Considerations of and Barriers to Intercultural Communication Autumn: Week 11, Wed 16th October Spring: Week 30, Wed 26th February |
INTL3350
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If you are having difficulty signing up for the workshops or you need further advice, please email globallearning@kent.ac.uk.
Talking Cultures elective module
Talking Cultures can be studied as an elective credit-bearing module in Autumn or Spring:
Talk to your academic adviser if you would like to choose Talking Cultures as an elective module.
Personally, my favourite [workshop] was the culture workshop [...]. It was interesting to see how people who had travelled or moved countries during their childhood (myself included) identified with two or more cultures.