COM 3220 - Intercultural Communication

Credits: 4
This course presents an overview of current issues in communicating across cultures. The course examines how people from various ethnic, gender, generational, racial, cultural, national and religious backgrounds exchange meaning. Study will focus on many of the cultural variables in communication as well as how those variables work holistically within cultural systems. Topics include how the interaction between language,
thinking patterns and culture affect communication, the nature of culture, issues of power, verbal and nonverbal codes.

Prerequisites COM-1102 and 57 or more credit hours
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern