Description: Main components of communicative events across different cultures, main logistic approaches to analyzing them, and difficulties the differences can create in intercultural and cross-gender communication. Covers historical perspective, political and economic philosophy, social structure, religion, language and education, body language, titles, and respect, turn-taking and turn maintenance. Narrative structuring, intonation, requests, disagreements and criticism, information seeking, politeness, and business negotiation discussed.
Prerequisites: BADM-2600 Introduction to World Trade, or departmental approval.
Hours: 1 Lecture: 1
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