Communication and culture 1
Theory of culture and communication
The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to- give an account of and reflect on different ways of viewing culture from a communicative perspective
- discuss the relationship between culture, the individual and society, taking specific utterances as a starting point
- use tools from theories of culture and communication in analyzing different cultures in a contemporary perspective
Text
The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to- elaborate on and discuss the relationship between text and society, taking contemporary texts from different parts of the world as a starting point
- analyze the communicative functions of texts
- create texts that are adapted to various communicative situations
- assess their own and others’ texts with the aid of different theories about language and texts
Communication
The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to- elaborate on and discuss how communication is affected by social factors such as power, gender, age and social and economic background
- give an account of how different media create different conditions for communication
- analyze the relationship between a specific communicative activity, the situation in which it occurs, and the cultural and social frameworks involved
- elaborate on and discuss the various challenges posed by intercultural communication
- present a topic – factual or artistic – that is adapted to a given communicative situation
- assess communicative aspects of their own and others’ presentations and give constructive feedback to others
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