Providence Academy for International Studies

Grade 9 - Intercultural Communication
This course is an introduction to how culture affects communication between individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, and strategies for successful intercultural communication. It addresses the challenge of adaptation to new cultural contexts, and builds competencies necessary to successful intercultural and international interactions. Students will develop critical thinking skills to address challenges inherent in culturally diverse groups, analyze written and oral intercultural communication, and apply their learning to authentic intercultural interactions. Students will examine how culture affects forms, conventions, and styles of communicating ideas and information to different audiences for different purposes.

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