In line with the UL strategy to broaden the curriculum, this module will offer students in a range of different disciplines an opportunity to engage in learning about language and intercultural communication. In our increasingly multicultural and multilingual society, communities and organizations are faced with a number of difficult challenges as they strive to provide a respectful, safe and harmonious environment for all. It is crucial that students have opportunities to understand and appreciate their own culture and make connections to appreciate the cultures and experiences of others. To this end, the module aims at developing students' intercultural communication competence and is aimed at non-traditional language students. The module will bring the concept of intercultural learning to life in a way that is engaging and allows students to critically evaluate the importance of culture and language in intercultural communication. The first part of the course explores views of identity, culture, and intercultural communication including the role of language. Students will look at representations of 'us' and 'them ', drawn from a range of genres including: the media, websites, embassy and business publications as well as representations in art and film. Students will reflect on their own cultural identities and how these might have informed their interpretations of the "other". In the second part of the course students will carry out a collaborative project of intercultural learning. They will be paired with native-speakers from other cultures and be required to carry out tasks aiming at raising intercultural learning.

This module aims at developing students' intercultural communication competence. The module will bring the concept of intercultural learning to life in a way that is engaging and allows students to critically evaluate the importance of language in intercultural communication. Students will attend an individual advisory session with a language tutor where they will reflect on their current language level and intercultural awareness; this will allow sudents to identify learning goals and create a programme of learning including telecollaborative tasks in order to achieve these goals. Students will tkae responsibility for the organisation of their own learning, establish and maintain contact with their partners and seek and offer information and opinions to enable development of intercultural communicative competence. Students will demonstrate in-depth reflection on their learning process through the keeping of a learner diary, in which they will record progress made, plan their next steps and reflect on their development during the semester.

Having successfully completed the module, students will be able to: • Illustrate, contrast and explain differences in both verbal and nonverbal communication in and across different cultures, as emergent resources in intercultural communication, • Reflect on, describe and clarify the configuration of cultural identities in intercultural communication, including your own • Define intercultural competency in terms of empathy, cultural adaptability, cultural relativisation, negotiation and mediation, • Problematize definitions of culture and language in intercultural communication, especially in global lingua franca communication contexts • Make connections between theories of intercultural communication and your own intercultural experiences,

Having successfully completed the module, students will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: • Constructions and negotiations of cultural identities in intercultural communication, including stereotypes of "native" and "other" cultures, Demonstrate and practice skills of intercultural communicative competence, cultural awareness and intercultural awareness. • Embrace with deeper understanding people from different cultural backgrounds in real life situations.

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The module will be taught using blended learning combining traditional face-to-face lectures,tutorials and on line delivery. The online learning component will include the use of digital media to allow students actively engage in communication with a speaker of the target language. Students will mak use of innovative intercultural learning methods which include tellecollaborative learning via Skype or other computer-mediated communicaiton tools "Telecollaboration refers to the application of online communication tools to bring together (...) learners in geographically distant locations to develop their foreign language skills and intercultural comptence through collaborative tasks and project work" (O'Dowd, 2011: 342). The telecollaborative component will draw on a simial project funded by AHSS where a programme of telecollaborative learning was developed and piloted by the Language Learning Hub in the Autumn smester 2014 to prepare a groups language students for their period of studfy aborad. The module will contribute to the development of the graduate attributes in a number of ways. Students will be involved in a collaborative project which will aid in the development of skills found under the headings of responible, articulate, creative, pro-active and knowledgeable. The module will equip students with the know how of engaging with real world intercultural problems allowing them to be socially responsible and make a positive difference.