Week 1:
January 8th

No online meeting... please do Discussion Board #1.

Welcome to Intercultural Communication! Please login to the UCLA Extension Blackboard Link. There you will find a tab for Discussion Boards. Do the readings and then do the first one.

TEXT

• Chapter 1 - Why study Intercultural Communication?
• Chapter 2 - The History of the Study of Intercultural Communication

READER

• Reader #18: Key Concepts in Intercultural Communication - Hall & Hall (This reading is also available online through the following links):
  • Key Concepts - part 1
  • Key Concepts - part 2
  
  

Week 2: January 15th

CULTURE/CONTEXT/POWER & HISTORY

Meet ONLINE @ 8 p.m. - UCLA Extension Blackboard Link

TEXT

• Chapter 3 - Culture, Communication, Context, & Power
• Chapter 4 - History and Intercultural Communication
  

READER

• Reader #32 - Intercultural Friendships as Interpersonal
  Alliances Mary Jane Collier
  
• Reader #3 - Worldview, Religion and Intercultural
  Communication – Nakayama & Martin  

Week 3:
January 22nd

IDENTITY

No online meeting... please do Discussion Board #2 instead.

TEXT

• Chapter 5 - Identity

READER

• Reader #4 - On being biracial in the US – Nance & Foeman
• Reader #7 - My three cultures – Gust Yep
  
  

Week 4: January 29th

WHITE PRIVILEGE

Watch: The Color of Fear  

DUE: Intercultural Journals - I

Please turn in your journals through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m. - UCLA Extension Blackboard Link
                                                           
ONLINE:

• Unpacking the invisible knapsack - Peggy McIntosh
• Kathryn Sorrells - Ch. 3 - The Body in the Global Context
  - This reading is available under the "Sorrells Reading " tab within Blackboard.
  
  

Week 5: February 5th

LANGUAGE, ETHNOCENTRISM ...

+ EXAM

No online meeting... please do Discussion Board #3 instead.

TEXT

• Chapter 6- Language and Intercultural Communication
                                

READER

• Reader #6 - Happy to be Nappy – Regina Spellers
• Reader # 8 - Learning to see what I was never supposed
  to see   - Jacqueline Martinez  
• Reader #10 - Crossing an Irish Border – Frederick Corey    

Midterm Exam:

• Covers 1st half of class on Chapters 1-5 + Readings
• Available from 6-8 p.m. through Blackboard

Week 6: February 12th

Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m. - UCLA Extension Blackboard Link

TEXT

• Chapter 7 - Nonverbal Communication
• Chapter 10 - Intercultural Relationships  

READER 

• Reader #31 - I, we, they – Hofstede
• Reader #33 - Performing Commitment – Jacqueline Taylor

INTERCULTURAL TRANSITIONS

No online meeting... please do Discussion Board #4 instead.

TEXT

• Chapter 8 - Intercultural Transitions
  

READER

• Reader #27 - The cycle of cross-cultural adaptation & re-entry
                                                                                  - Shelley Smith
• Reader #28 -Translated enactments – Radha S. Hegde

Week 8:
February 26th

POPULAR CULTURE &

INTERCULTURAL CONFLICT

DUE:Intercultural Journals – II

Please turn in your journals through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m. - UCLA Extension Blackboard Link

TEXT

• Chapter 9 - Popular Culture
• Chapter 11 - Intercultural Conflict

READER

• Reader #24 - Looking at the Front Door – Orbe & Hopson
• Reader #25 - The Seige & media portrayals of Arabs – Marouf Hasain
• Reader #38 - Ethical Issues in IC Communication - Martin, Flores & Nakayama

                     

Week 9:
March 4th

CLASS WRAP UP

DUE: Other-Culture Interaction Paper

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m. - UCLA Extension Blackboard Link

• Wrap up of Class

ONLINE EXAM 2 @ 6 p.m.

The test will be based on the second half of the readings assigned for this class as well as on all in-class discussions and materials presented (all material after the midterm). The exam will consist of a variety of multiple choice and essay questions that allow you to demonstrate your understanding of the concepts.