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Intercultural & Transcultural Communication (IHSM-EU-HEM-E2.2.2)

Department
  • Master's Program International Health & Social Management
Course unit code
  • IHSM-EU-HEM-E2.2.2
Level of course unit
  • Master
Year of study
  • Spring 2025
Semester when the course unit is delivered
  • 2
Number of ECTS credits allocated
  • 5.0
Name of lecturer(s)
  • Guibert Isabelle, MA MA
Learning outcomes of the course unit
  • • Gain awareness of
    - the interconnection between peace, conflict, health
    - the different meanings and expressions of violence
    - the plurality of peace and your personal understanding of peace
    - conflict as a potential for transformation
    - inner peace as a prerequisite to better interact with others
    - your own needs and feelings
    - culture and intercultural communication
    • Practice communication tools for conflict transformation
    • Explore your own conflicts, and hence increase your empathetic qualities
    • Gain insight into your communication styles to identify mechanisms leading to dysfunctional communication and generating misunderstandings/conflicts in the private sphere, at work, in society
    • Improve your listening and expressing skills
    • Get out of comfort zone to see through new lenses and take a step back from your own (cultural) worldview.
    • Enhance your abilities by balancing mental, physical, emotional, spiritual skills
    • Learn through experiencing
Mode of delivery
  • -
Recommended optional program components
  • none
Course contents
  • PEACE, VIOLENCE, CULTURE – Conceptual aspects
    - Paradigm shift in the understanding of peace and health since 1945 (UNESCO/WHO) | Plurality of peace | Negative and positive peace
    - Meaning and dimensions of violence | Personal, structural, cultural violence
    - Possible strategies for dealing with conflict and for ensuring peace
    - Insight into culture and interculturality

    CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION – Practical methods
    - Mindfulness
    - (Defensive) Communication Styles
    - Active Listening
    - Nonviolent Communication
    - Theatre of the Oppressed/Theatre for Living
Recommended or required reading
  • Available on Sakai/Resources:
    - DIETRICH, WOLFGANG (2005): "Peace - Remarks on the Difficult History of a Key Cultural Term", SOSKinderdorforum, Vol. 30 (Innsbruck), 11-15
    - ESTEVA, GUSTAVO (2011): "Intercultural Inspiration: The Life and Work of Raimon Panikkar" in Dietrich, Wolfgang and Others (Eds.): The Palgrave International Handbook of Peace Studies: A Cultural Perspective, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 570-585
    - GALTUNG, JOHAN (1969): "Violence, Peace and Peace Research", Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 69, 167-191
    - LEDERACH, JOHN PAUL (2003): The Little Book of Conflict Transformation; Intercourse, Good Books
    - MARMOT, MICHAEL, WILKINSON, RICHARD G. (2003): The Solid Facts. Copenhagen: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe
    - ROGERS, CARL R. & RICHARD E. FARSON (1987): "Active Listening". In R.G. Newman, M.A. Danzinger, M. Cohen (eds). Communicating in Business Today. D.C. Heath & Company
    - ROSENBERG, MARSHALL (2003): Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, PuddleDancer Press.
    - SATIR, VIRGINIA (1988): The new peoplemaking, Palo Alto, CA: Science and Behavior Books
    - SEARS, MELANIE (2010): "Preface" and "A Crisis in Health Care", in Humanizing Health Care: Creating Cultures of Compassion in Health Care with Nonviolent CommunicationPartly available on Sakai/Resources:
    - BRAUD, WILLIAM AND ROSEMARIE ANDERSON (1998): "Conventional and Expanded Views of Research", in Transpersonal Research Methods for the Social Sciences: Honoring Human Experience, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 3-26
    - EUROPEAN COMMISSION (1998): What? Me? A Racist? Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
    - FREIRE, PAOLO (1972): Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books
    - INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMICS & PEACE (2023): Global Peace Index 2023: Measuring Peace in a Complex World, Sydney
    - WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT (2023), New York, Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
  • • Interactive teaching and participatory learning
    • Unconventional teaching approaches involving mind, body, spirit, heart (mindfulness/meditation)
    • Inputs and open discussion
    • Individual and collective work (research, reflection, exchange, creativity, diverse forms of communication and expression)
Assessment methods and criteria
  • ASSESSMENT
    • Check-in post in Forum. Deadline Fri 12.04.2024. Weighting: 20%.
    • Personal report. Deadline Sun 05.05.2024. Weighting: 80%.
    • Active engagement throughout the course. Weighting: up to 5 bonus points.

    PREREQUISITE
    Since the course builds up progressively, is process and systemic-oriented, and involves group work, it is required to attend ALL course dates from 03.04-06.05.2024, and to keep the afternoons after class from 22-26.04.2024 free for tasks outside class.

    INDICATION
    This course focuses on inner peace.
Language of instruction
  • English
Work placement(s)
  • none

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