Intercultural Communication Summer Course

4 Weeks Course

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4 weeks

This practical summer course provides 4 weeks of knowledge, successful practices, field trips and case studies.

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Udayana University

All lectures will take place at the Bukit Jimbaran Campus of Udayana University Bali.

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3 Credit Points

Within this summer course you can achieve up to 3 ECTS credit points awarded by Udayana University in Bali.

Summer School: Intercultural Communication

This 4 weeks course offers a comprehensive knowledge on intercultural communications. It is designed to study social attributes, thought pattern and culture of different groups of people, which will lead participants not only to theoretically understand and value cultural differences but also to having skills of intercultural communications. Identity and culture are also studied within the discipline of communication to analyze how globalization influences ways of thinking, beliefs, values and identity within and between cultural environments.

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Summer School Facts

Study fees EUR 2190

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Summer School 2019:

May 20th

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Course Dates

Summer School 2019:

July 7th - August 2nd

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Course Content

Course Objectives
Course Objectives
Course Objectives

To comprehend the intercultural communications skills
To understand and value cultural differences within the society
To comprehend globalization as a historical process and its aspects
To comprehend the concepts of social change and understand it theoretically
To introduce the issues of social changes in Bali as the impacts of globalization
To understand the local perspectives in seeing the issues and conflicts arising from social changes
To develop the competency to manage the issues of social changes in Bali from wider perspectives
To develop understanding of public use of communal space
To study and discussed many aspects of Bali’s conflict management and how Balinese facing the dynamic conditions came from globalization that also bought many different values on it.
To discuss ecological distribution conflict, i.e., socio-environmental conflict which arises from uneven distribution of the benefit and cost of environmental change using the Benoa Bay conflict as a case study
Course Topics
Course Topics
Course Topics

Intercultural Communications skill; understanding culture with mindfulness, verbal and non verbal communications
Globalization and Social Change
Communal Space
Conflict Management
Political Ecology
Field Trips
Field Trips
Field Trips

Tenganan Pengringsingan Village (3 days 2 nights)
French Community School
Benoa Bay
Bali Arts Festival

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Intercultural Communicaton as well as Conflict Management are two very important topics in Bali where people from many different cultural, religious, social and ethnical backgrounds live together. Therefore this summer school will include a series of activities and trips during which you will be able to observe a wide range of communication processes and daily challenges that appear within such a society. Main focus will be on the question how problems and conflicts appear from the cross-cultural interaction and how the people in Bali can deal with these conflicts.