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KS International Management 1

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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
3 ECTS M2 - Master's programme 2. year Business Administration Robert Breitenecker 1 hpw HSE Nishnij Novgorod
Detailed information
Original study plan Master's programme Joint Master's Program Global Business - Russia/Italy 2020W
Objectives The course is competence oriented and designed to help the students to develop their cross-cultural awareness in interpersonal and professional communications. The course encompasses a theoretical and a practical part.
The theoretical part is be based on major theories and approaches in intercultural communications that have been developing from the time of its appearance as a scholarly discipline and includes the American and European experience (Edward T. Hall, Geert Hofstede, Richard D.Lewis) as well as the Russian one (Svetlana Ter-Minasova, Valerii Zusman and others).
The practical part of the course is incorporated into lectures and focuses on case studies, discussions and cross-cultural problems solving, which acquires an additional acuteness in the multicultural context of the programme.
The uniqueness of the course is in the combination of traditional and novel approaches to intercultural issues involving the approach suggested by Nizhny Novgorod scholars (who have been developing their own view on the cross-cultural communication matters since 2000). That is why some of the information studied in the course could be obtained only through listening lectures or reading the sources in Russian.
Subject The short-term aim of the course is to help students the students to cope with the cultural shock they are experiencing during the programme, especially at its beginning.
The long-term orientation of the course is to develop the intercultural awareness which will help the students in their professional activities.
Criteria for evaluation Class work (50%)

  • Team project “Russia is…”
    For the team assignment and presentation students are expected to give their own view and experience of the Russian culture with the reference to the theoretical part of the course (Hall’s cultural parameters, Hofstede cultural dimensions, Lewis cross cultural communication model etc).

Final test (50%)
The final test will consist of 10 mixed (multiple choice and non-multiple choice) questions on the theoretical part of the course.

Grading:
Grading will be based on the presentation and the final test. Although students will not be evaluated based on class participation, attendance is expected in all classes, and constructive participation in class discussions is highly encouraged

Methods Class Work (50%)
Final Test (50%)
Language English
Study material Edward, T.Hall (1990) The Hidden Dimension. N.Y. http://www.google.ru/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDMQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcourses.arch.ntua.gr%2Ffsr%2F137555%2FHall-The-Hidden-Dimesion.pdf&ei=WavTUo9tx8niBLTugMgM&usg=AFQjCNHAePyzDNcm2gOglkLzp7EQhtPZOw&bvm=bv.59026428,d.bGE&cad=rjt accessed August 18, 2013.
Hofstede, Geert (1991) Cultures and organizations. Software of the mind. Maidenhead. http://home.arcor.de/katrin4u/downloads/Hofstede.pdf accessed August 18, 2013.
Lewis, Richard Cross-cultural Communication is the Basis for Successful Business. Lecture at StPetersburg European University 24.01.2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip4PrF3iwsw accessed August 10, 2013.
Additional Literature
Edward T.Hall (1990) The Silent language. N.Y. http://globalsociology.ucoz.ru/_ld/0/3_SilentLanguage0.pdf accessed August 18, 2013
Hofstede, Geert Dimensionalizing Cultures: The Hofstede Model in Context. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture. Unite 2. Theoretical and Methodological Issues, Subunit 1 Conceptual Issues in Psychology and Culture. Article one. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=orpc accessed August 18, 2013.
Rogers, Everett M., Hart, William B., Mike, Yoshitaka (2002) Edward T. Hall and The History of Intercultural Communication: The United States and Japan. Keio Communication Review No. 24,: 3-26. http://www.mediacom.keio.ac.jp/publication/pdf2002/review24/2.pdf accessed August 18, 2013
Зинченко В.Г., Зусман В.Г., Кирнозе З.И.(2008) Межкультурная коммуникация. От системного подхода к синергетической парадигме. Москва. Изд.2
Тер-Минасова С.Г. (2008) Война и мир языков и культур : вопросы теории и практики межъязыковой и межкультурной коммуникации. Москва. Тер-Минасова С.Г. (2008) Язык и межкультурная коммуникация. Москва. http://www.gumer.info/bibliotek_Buks/Linguist/Ter/_Index.php accessed August10, 2013.
Changing subject? No
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 40
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority