{"id":182,"date":"2018-02-07T18:36:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T18:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/?page_id=182"},"modified":"2018-04-05T17:21:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:21:02","slug":"becoming-foregin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Foreign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>A COURSE ON INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE AND COMMUNICATION.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0How shall I talk of the sea to the frog,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0if it has never left its pond?<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0How shall I talk of the frost to the bird of the summerland,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0if it has never left the land of its birth?<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0How shall I talk of life with the sage,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0if he is prisoner of his doctrine?<br \/>\n<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Chung Tsu, 4th Century B.C.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We share this planet with over 7 billion other people who belong to thousands of cultural groups and speak thousands of different languages. With the rise of global mobility and communication, almost every person on the earth, regardless of his or her location, language, or culture, is or can be interconnected with everyone else. Now, more than at any other time in history, what happens in one part of the world touches all parts of the world. This course is about our adapting, adjusting, reflecting, and taking part in this \u201cnew world.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The course explores the interaction between culture and communication in interpersonal and intercultural environments, and introduces students to the knowledge and skills necessary to attain global competence. Along with the study of the concept of culture and communication, this course provides the necessary tools to analyze communication behaviors in an interpersonal or intercultural context. In addition, this course introduces the construct of global competence; creates the opportunity to analyze and evaluate how our own cultural identity influences communication with others; engages interaction with the host culture; explores the challenges; and prepares the students with knowledge and skills to be effective and ethical intercultural communicators. <\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The course will include class discussions, simulations, interactive examples, case studies, media presentations, and field experiences. It will also include meetings with international students on their study abroad experience at Smith and Skype sessions with Smith students who are studying abroad for the semester.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A COURSE ON INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE AND COMMUNICATION. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0How shall I talk of the sea to the frog, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0if it has never left its pond? \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0How shall I talk of the frost to the bird of the summerland, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0if it has never left the land of its birth? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-182","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}