COMM 3800 - Communication Industries and Organizations Abroad

• Athens: Irregular

• Students will be able to connect key issues that are reshaping non-U.S. communication industries and organizations to prior academic knowledge.
• Students will be able to see and make connections between communication usage across disciplines and cultural perspectives while studying away.
• Students will be able to adapt and apply skills, abilities, theories, or methodologies gained in prior communication coursework to international communication industries and organizations.
• Students will be able to create an assignment using a format that communicates and enhances the meaning of their study away experience.
• Students will be able to demonstrate a developing sense of self as a learner and build on prior experience to examine, compare, and contrast national and transnational industries and organizations.
• Students will be able to critically evaluate and explain insights about their own cultural rules and biases related to communication industries and organizations.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of historical, cultural, political, and socio-economic factors that shape communication industries and organizations.
• Students will be able to interpret intercultural experience from their own and others’ worldview and to recognize the effects of those experiences on current trends and challenges transforming communication industries and organizations.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication between their home culture and the geographic location of study and to negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences.
• Students will be able to analyze complex questions regarding communication within other cultures and to articulate answers to these questions that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will be able to initiate and develop interactions with culturally different others while suspending judgment in valuing their interactions with national and transnational industries and organizations.