Title

Using An Interdisciplinary Course To Teach Intercultural Communication: Helping Students And Faculty Bridge Disciplinary Divides

Keywords

Disciplinary divide; Global citizenship; Intercultural communication; Interdisciplinarity; International education; Team teaching; Transdisciplinarity

Abstract

There is great value in helping students bridge both cultural and disciplinary divides as we prepare them for the challenges of citizenship in the twenty-first century. This paper describes, Global Perspectives, an interdisciplinary course taught by a faculty member in a technical communication program together with a faculty member in a political science department. The course focused on issues of power and communication as they relate to global issues: world hunger, environmental concerns, world health, and human rights. Through this course, the faculty members addressed a major concern in higher education today: the need to educate students to be global citizens capable of meeting the serious challenges facing the world in the 21st century. This concern is relevant for all college students regardless of their majors.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

5th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics, IMCIC 2014 and 5th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, ICSIT 2014 - Proceedings

Number of Pages

103-108

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

85034255267 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85034255267

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