Diversity and Intercultural Communication Skills
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Diversity and Intercultural Communication Skills

Issued by Northeastern State University

Badge earners address communication patterns influenced by perceptions, beliefs, values, and norms of behavior that vary among people of different cultural, racial, and national backgrounds. Content focuses on increasing understanding as well as improving the ability to facilitate intercultural interactions, focusing on inclusive engagement and diverse perspectives. Badge earners must complete the following course: COMM 2543 Intercultural Communication.

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  • Level Foundational
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Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Critically explore culture and diversity in one’s own life; Successfully analyze various cultural conflicts and, using communication, provide and enact plausible solutions; Interpretintercultural communication and apply meaning outside one’s own culture; Respect and collaborate with diverse others to accomplish empathetic and inclusive communication goals; Successfully apply intercultural communication concepts to achieve personal needs.
  • Explore the concept of culture by examining popular cultural artifacts and cases in their everyday lives.
  • Identify intercultural conflicts, stereotypes, and communication problems and reflect on the possible solutions.
  • Understand the important role of “language” in intercultural communication and develop the ability to decode the meanings of a ritual, a phrase, or a gesture in different symbolic systems.
  • Achieve personal communication goals in an intercultural context.