Code: | LA013 | Acronym: | ICINT |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Cultural Studies |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Department of Germanic Studies |
Course/CS Responsible: | Bachelor in Applied Languages |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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LA | 80 | LA - Study Plan | 1 | - | 6 | 52 | 162 |
LRI | 95 | LRI - Study Plan | 1 | - | 6 | 52 | 162 |
This course unit sets out to provide the theoretical and practical knowledge required for intercultural communications. Students will develop the ability to contextualise their individual cultural experience within the wider scope of foreign cultures, which will enable them to have a broader grasp of the extensive system of existing cultural standards. Awareness of certain aspects of so-called foreign cultures should enable them to reflect on their own cultural habits and standards. This unit will see the start of the development of a new professional profile of the cultural mediator (the material in this course unit can be dealt with in greater depth in the 2nd cycle), which can be very important in cultural and business activities, as well as in the major field of translation studies.
1. Approaches and meanings of “culture”;
2. Cultures in contact: culture shock, acculturation, identity and otherness;
3. Intercultural sensitivity;
4. Cultural dimensions, concepts and criteria for the comparison of “cultures”;
5. Culture and language: direct and indirect communication;
6. Culture and body: multimodalities of face-to-face interaction;
7. Interpreting cultural values from different kinds of material (films, pictures, adverts, written texts).
A secondary reading list will be handed out in class.
Classes will be student-centered, stimulating the sensibility to understand the dynamics of cultures, considering different habits, different forms of interpersonal communication and differences of perceiving and interpreting the world.
Individual participation, critical thinking and problem solving will be encouraged, avoiding the lecture. Apart from brief exposures and theoretical explanations, much of the content will be introduced alongside the observation and analysis of different materials.
Main attention is given to the active participation in class, by submitting small projects on different thematic issues.
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Exame | 70,00 |
Participação presencial | 30,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Designation | Time (hours) |
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Estudo autónomo | 108,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 54,00 |
Total: | 162,00 |
positive note in all acessment components
Exam = 70%
Presentation of a topic, active participation in class, exercises = 30%
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