Study Guide

Objective

Upon successful completion of the course participants will be prepared for tasks in a multicultural environment. They will have an understanding of the complex and pervasive nature of culture; and of cultural differences as described in the Cultural Dimensions models of Geert Hofstede and Fons Trompenaars. They should also understand the challenges which refugees, immigrants and their host societies face in adapting to each other.

Content

The course is helpful for anyone aiming at working in a multicultural environment (for example, but not exclusively, social sciences, education and political sciences). It includes: approaches to intercultural communication; definitions of culture; culture acquisition as socialization; culture as a set of responses to environmental factors; the workings of human perception; the culture dimensions models of Geert Hofstede and Fons Trompenaars; the limits of culture learning as an approach of intercultural communication.

Teaching methods

Face-to-Face

Further information

If you miss the first class session and have not discussed your absence with the teacher, your place can be given to the first person on the waiting list.
Remember to cancel your registration if you will not be taking the course.

A degree student attending the Lapland University of Applied Sciences can register free of charge for LUC studies offered by the University of Lapland, if the studies can be linked to their own degree. Enrollment takes place through the Applicant’s Desktop of the University of Lapland: https://hakeutuminen-lay.peppi4.lapit.csc.fi/web/hakijan-tyopoyta/. From the left hand menu, first select "Study selection" and then "LUC studies YO”, and you will see the entire offering. Choose the study unit in question and register.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

5–1/fail