Session

Fall 2024

 Term

F

Format

ONLN (Fully Online)

Instructor

Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite

This course focusses on intercultural communication for students from an English language learning background. Students will develop critically reflective strategies to build intercultural awareness and apply intercultural communication strategies in a range of contexts. The course will examine notions of culture and the relationships between language use, culture, power dynamics and identity, contextualized within a global, local and Canadian context. Prerequisites: AP/ESL 1000 or AP/ESL 1450, AP/ESL 2000, AP/ESL 1010 or AP/ESL1015, or permission of coordinator.Open to: undergraduate students whose first language is not English.Not open to: students who speak English with native proficiency.

Course Start Up

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