Intercultural Competencies
Courses
Learning Outcome
After the successful participation in the course German-Arab Relations the students are enabled to:
- understand the institutional set-up of bilateral and multilateral development cooperation with special reference to the Arab world
- work with political, economic and cultural objectives and instruments of German-Arab relations.
Content
- Institutional set-up of bilateral and multilateral development cooperation:
- Role of German parliament, ministries for development, environment and economy
- Arab embassies and other organisations shaping and cultivating German-Arab relations
- Socio-political objectives and instruments of German-Arab relations:
- development cooperation between Germany and the Arab world
- nature and volume of German-Arab trade and investments
- historic and present cultural and political relations between Germany and MENA
- Information on objectives and content of German-Arab M.Sc. programmes
Details
- Lecturer: Anke Aref, Marc Selig
- Teaching method: visits to organisations in Berlin, lectures, discussions
- SWS: 2
- Credit points: 2
- Examination: group discussions, (quantity, quality); written report on organisations visited
Learning Outcome
After the successful participation in the course Intercultural Communication the students are enabled to:
- meta-cognitively reflect communication relevant factors in perception and assessment of situations and critical incidents in every day- and project-related communication
- monitor the personal adaptation process
- generate a portfolio of tools for an empathic approach to effectively communicate and work in intercultural teams.
Content
- Intercultural and communication models like E.T. Hall, Hofstede, Schulz von Thun, and others
- (auto)biography
- cross-cultural analysis
- cultural self-analysis of differences
- Situated, contextualized and dynamic issues:
- considering events, phenomena, people etc. as differing and changing along different cultures and different times, culture shock model
- Learning and working in an intercultural environment:
- perception, assessment, inference
- learning diary
- core topic: creative activities on intercultural communication competence
- scientific writing (perspective of the self and other, testimonials, critical incidents)
- Communicating issues of RE in a global world considering local and global knowledge
Details
- Lecturer: Anke Aref
- Teaching method: seminar
- SWS: 2
- Credit points: 2
- Examination: meta-cognitive reflection, references of the reading done, intercultural project; written report
Learning Outcome
After the successful participation in the course German and Arab Language Courses Kassel the students are able to:
- communicate with elaborated formulations and expressions for use in daily life.
Content
- German:
- basic phrases and short sentences for everyday use
- technical terms and expressions in electrical engineering and RE
- basic concepts in High German grammar
- Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Egyptian dialect (EA):
- basic reading, writing, and speaking skills
- solid foundation in formal Arabic grammar (nahu) and morphology (sarf)
- vocabulary of at least 1000 Arabic daily life words
Details
- Lecturer: International Language Center, University of Kassel
- Teaching method: lecture, seminar
- SWS: 2
- Credit points: 2
- Examination: written and oral exam