Intercultural Competence – digitaler Selbstlernkurs

The general purpose of the course is to offer a structured, science-based impulse towards the permanent development and cultivation of intercultural communication as a key professional and academic competence. To that end, the course pursues long-term and short-term goals.

Our long-term purposes are to help participants:

1. improve the basic attitudes described in the intercultural competence model (respect, openness, etc.);
2. improve their knowledge (cultural self-awareness, etc.) and skills (observation, evaluation, analysis, etc.), stimulating a shift in their frame of reference (adaptability, empathy, ethnorelative view, flexibility);
3. become more effective and appropriate in the way they communicate and behave in intercultural contexts.

In order to set these long-term learning processes in motion, the contents and exercises of the course focus on short-term learning goals that consist of:

The contents cover among other aspects: