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Intercultural Communication
Module
COIL EXPERIENCE
REHNUMA KARIM
Department of Recreation and Leisure
Road Map
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CELT’s role
Brief Overview of the course
Significance of these courses
Challenges
Overview
Brockport
Bangladesh
Instructor: Rehnuma Karim,
Ph.D
College of Brockport, State
University of New York, USA,
Semester: Fall, 2015
32 Students (All disciplines)
Course : International Tourism
Instructor :Quazi Ahmed
Institute of Business Administration
Dhaka University, Bangladesh
60 Students
Course :Business Communication
Duration: 6 Weeks
Common Module
Intercultural Communication
COURSE DESCRIPTION
• The COIL module is designed to develop
awareness among the students on the
importance of intercultural
communication in this global society.
The course will encourage students to develop
knowledge and skills that will allow them to
communicate effectively in collaborative
learning environment..
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students will be able to:
• Identify major cultural differences and similarities through interactive
discussion and collaborative tasks addressing biases, stereotypes and
lifestyles in both cultures.
• Explore the importance of cross-cultural awareness and the dynamics of
online communication etiquette while interacting with each other
exchanging individual world views, images and videos among themselves.
• Acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes that will contribute to develop
intercultural competence to communicate effectively in collaborative
online learning environment and heighten their ability to respect and
understand cultures different than their own
ASSESSMENT AND GRADING
• Self-Introduction
activity through an Ice
Breaker session
• Collaborative
assignments on shared
Reading Materials
• Discussion on posts
through Facebook
• Self-Reflective paper
Google Docs
VIBER APP
Generalization
Diversity Quiz
World View
mies. Everyone has their own beliefs and its really nice to see that these people have a more unity based world view. There's always going to be people wi
emies. Everyone has their own beliefs and its really nice to see that these people have a more unity based world view. There's always going to be people
FACEBOOK DISCUSSIONS
https://www.facebook.com/InterculturalCommunication-USA-BD1674678652813769/?fref=nf
Our World-Views
Interesting Observation:
The Cohorts seemed to reflect on more
Unity-based World-view in the last two
semesters than from the Years 2012 to
2014
Significance of Cross-Cultural
Collaborative Learning
Developing cross-cultural
sensitivity
Discussion taking place outside
class-room setting with peers
and family members
Expanded their global
perspective on different
issues
Became interested in study
abroad programs to
experience foreign culture
Overcome fear of
communicating with
individuals from different
culture.
Effectiveness of Assignments
Global Awareness
Few Student Reflections
• What is my world View?
• Has my worldview change or will
change?
• Where did my worldview come
from?
• What would I need to do if I want
to change my world view?
• After reading the article on
“World View”, discuss and
compare your world views with
your COIL partner answering
the following questions
“I don’t believe the differences in our world
views lead to ineffective communication. The
main reason for that is we respect each other.
I have respect for Arif and Shubhashish and
they both have respect for me. We both
understand we have different thoughts on
things because we are from different places
“All of us realize that at the end of the day, it
is essential for people to be connected and
united. Just like how connected we are within
our families, and friends. In addition, my COIL
partners and I also believed in the idea of
change”.
Challenges
Personal
• Time
• Lack of Recognition
• Creating Pedagogical insight
Institutional
• Infrastructure
• Leadership
Cultural
• Learning and
communication style
• Concept of time
Reflections
In just a few short weeks of getting to
know my COIL partners, I have seen
two people of different religions
(whom have violently feuded with
each other in the past I am told)
become close friends, as well as two
people of different religions planning
to intermarry. No prejudices stand in
the way of this on either side.
Of course I would recommend this
program; in fact I already plan to as
some of my political science friends
were excited that we would have
Bangladeshi pen pals. And of course I
will remain in communication with my
Bangladeshi friends (for that’s what
they are now.)
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Finally, as I have found in discussion
that my COIL partners not only are just
as interested in learning about America
as I am learning about Bangladesh; but
they tend to view issues from a human
perspective that the global community
must face together as opposed to
viewing them as the problems of
individual countries.
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These experiences were pretty
meaningful to me because it is
something I haven’t done before
school wise. Since I haven’t done
something like this in school, it will be
something I will always remember and
something I will always get to speak
about with my new friends.
Extracts from Self-Reflective Paper
“I learned a lot of information about Bangladesh from my COIL
partners through this experience. Their inspiration for their
country really inspired me and made me realize that I should be
making a difference in my country as well. Tazbin has a passion
for social welfare and is associated with an organization through
his school to help educate street children to make the world a
better place to live. Adib has a passion to help with the crime,
political and economic problems of his country. Adib stated in his
email, “You will see busy, polluted streets which will
make you want to not live, but then again you will find
normal city streets calm and quiet and once you let
yourself enjoy it, you might even find bliss there.”