104年第1學期-0189 文討：從東西文化差異談溝通 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
Attendance	20
report	50
written exam	30

教育目標

Students should develop awareness that in order to understand a foreigner, one should first examine thoroughly one’s own culture. To do so they will have to be able to distinguish which criteria are important to introduce their own culture to the foreigner. Thirdly, they will realize that any judgment about a foreigner culture has first to be questioned as why and how it works. Furthermore they will have to realize that any encounter with a foreigner is first of all meeting an individual not a passport.

課程概述

When individuals coming from Western cultures come to live in Taiwan or in China they encounter many difficulties. Among them, the most complex to deal with are rooted in culture. It is true as well for Taiwanese and Chinese people going to a Western country. In this innovative course, I will teach all students the main features of socializing in a Chinese oriented culture like face, networking, social values, social representations, etc. Then students will work in group sharing their understanding of their native culture and the nature of the problem they are facing when they interact with their foreign counterpart. They will be asked to make a report about their finding and then the theoretical aspect of the course will be examined in the light of their own conclusion.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：2-0
上課時間：五/3,4[LAN004]
修課班級：外文系3,4
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：畢業前須修兩門文討 需填申請單

參考書目

They will be given a list of books to read and to report on.