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BUSN 207 - Cultural Awareness & Business Etiquette

5 Credits
Analyze culture through an interdisciplinary lens that provides students with the knowledge, understanding, and skills they need to appreciate and articulate diverse values and experiences and to cooperate effectively across cultural barriers in business, commerce, trade and industry . This course will study the ways that culture is depicted through advertising, television, and marketing and how this impacts business communication across cultures. Students will learn to participate in discussions about the impact and influence of multiple cultural perspectives and expectations, especially historically marginalized groups, and the resulting limits to cultural, social and economic development in their absence. Cultural awareness makes students aware of competing cultural beliefs and perceptions, and shows that diversity broadens and enhances the intellectual culture required to develop and maintain sustainable models of business, trade and commerce. This course also explores regional cultural profiles and business/social etiquette around the world.

Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Summer Online
Fall Online
Winter Day, Online
Spring Day, Online

Designed to Serve Business students, as well as students in other professional technical programs of study.
Active Date 20190619T15:01:47

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 38
Shared Learning Environment Yes
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
AA
  • Diversity & Globalism

ProfTech Course Yes
Restricted Elective Yes
ProfTech Related Instruction
  • Human Relations


Course Outline
  1. Understanding Cultural Awareness
  2. Concepts and Elements of Culture
  3. Specific (V.S) General approach
  4. Human needs (Malsow’s order)
  5. Human behavior cross cultures
  6. Cultural Sensitivity: Prejudice
  7. Discrimination-Stereotypes-Sexism-Ethnicity-Racism.
  8. Stages of cultural Awareness
  9. Cross-cultural comparison
  10. Hofstedes’ Classification Scheme
  11. Ethics cross cultures
  12. Culture Shock
  13. Understanding the principles of business negotiation/etiquette around the world
  14. Relationship versus Business Deal
  15. High context culture versus Low context cultures
  16. Time (Monochronic V.S Polychronic)
  17. Formal V.S Informal
  18. Non-verbal Business Behavior


Student Learning Outcomes
Explain how specific cultural characteristics impact individual viewpoints and cross-cultural communication.

Describe intercultural competence strategies necessary to navigate cultural differences in a global environment.

Describe intercultural competence strategies necessary to navigate social/business etiquette in a global environment.

Discuss the impact of dehumanizing biases, such as racism and prejudice, on marginalized people.



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