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Intercultural Communication
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:26.10.2020
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_067 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences; Library Science | Target Audience: | Health Management; Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Deniss Hanovs | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Communication | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | Anda Rožukalne | ||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 16 Dzirciema Street, kfko rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67409183 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 3 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 6 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Not required. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The objective of the course is to stimulate students’ critical, analytical thinking and to expand their cultural competence in the context of Latvian globalised society and cultural diversity. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction to intercultural communication. The concept of culture and the concept of diversity. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Time and space in the intercultural communication process. Guest lecture: A visit to the Riga Synagogue and a visit to the Jewish Cultural House. The lecture will be read by Gita Umanovska. See you at the synagogue! Address: Riga Old Town, 6/8 Peitavas Street. Men should wear a hat or have a scarf to cover their head with! The time will be announced shortly before the lecture, please check your email! | Lectures | 1.00 | other | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | other | |||||||
| 3 | Cultural memory, memory construction, cultural memory trauma, cultural footprint theory: J. Asmans, S. Grinblats, P. Nora. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | “Otherness”, the image of enemy and political protest in culture. J. Butler and the concept of gender. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Radical cultures. Skinheads - an ideology or a costume? Radicalism and visual image - contradictions and surprises? “Green skinheads” and skinheads against racism. Presentations of student papers on urban subcultures. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | The different, empire, and cultural politics: an analysis of postcolonial theories and politics. The concept of nation in modern society. Commercial patriotism. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Intercultural dialogue: the case of Latvia. Does anyone need integration? What is happening to the Latvian nation and the Latvian people? What is the position of Latvian minorities? | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Hybridity of culture. Concepts of Peter Burke and Zygmunt Bauman. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction to intercultural communication. The concept of culture and the concept of diversity. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Cultural memory, memory construction, cultural memory trauma, cultural footprint theory: J. Asmans, S. Grinblats, P. Nora. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Radical cultures. Skinheads - an ideology or a costume? Radicalism and visual image - contradictions and surprises? “Green skinheads” and skinheads against racism. Presentations of student papers on urban subcultures. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | The different, empire, and cultural politics: an analysis of postcolonial theories and politics. The concept of nation in modern society. Commercial patriotism. | Lectures | 0.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 7 | Intercultural dialogue: the case of Latvia. Does anyone need integration? What is happening to the Latvian nation and the Latvian people? What is the position of Latvian minorities? | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Hybridity of culture. Concepts of Peter Burke and Zygmunt Bauman. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Expedition through the space of Riga, analysing subcultures, which will be discussed in groups of students in person; students write essays on the chosen topic (list of topics in the course description in e-studies). | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | On a 10 point scale, according to the presentation in groups, quality of the essays and the exam grade. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students get an idea of the turning points of culture. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Skills to develop analysis of cultural diversity, interpret it with theoretical texts, to form a discussion on cultural policy in Latvia. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students are competent in forming an intercultural position, reacting to expressions of racism, forming a civic position. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Gircs K. Kultūru interpretācija. – Rīga: 1998., lpp. 10.-37. | ||||||||
| 2 | Hallam E., Street B. Cultural encounters – representing “otherness”. – pp. 1 – 10. | ||||||||
| 3 | Liotārs Ž. F. Postmodernais stāvoklis. Pārskats par zināšanām. Rīga, 2008. - lpp. 68-113. | ||||||||
| 4 | Castells M. The Rise of the Network Society. – pp. 429 – 468. | ||||||||
| 5 | “Bīstamie sakari: seno fobiju šodiena Latvijā” (krājums ir e-studijās pdf formā) | ||||||||
| 6 | Nora P. Between Memory and History. Representations, Vol. 26 Spring, 1989, pp. 7-24. | ||||||||
| 7 | Skudra O. Historical Themes and Concepts in the Newspapers Diena and Vesti Segodnya in 2009. In: Muižnieks N. The Geopolitics of History. Pp. 139-175. (no pdf faila „10. nodarbībai) | ||||||||
| 8 | Dribins L. Citādais un svešais nacionālo attiecību skatījumā. Multikulturalisms Latvijā: teorija un prakse. – lpp. 42. – 50. | ||||||||
| 9 | Apinis V. Iecietība jūdaismā: ebreji attieksmē pret pasauli un citādo. Tēraudkalns V. Skulte I., Hanovs D. (red.) Antisemitisms un islamofobija Latvijā – pagātne, aktuālā situācija, risinājumi. – Rīga, 2006. – 18. – 28. lpp. | ||||||||
| 10 | Cimdiņa A. Dissidence and Soviet Latvian Poetry: the 1960s. In: Rebellion and Resistance, 2009. – pp. 85-101. | ||||||||
| 11 | Ārente H. Totalitārisma izcelsme. – lpp. 415 – 468. | ||||||||
| 12 | Habermas J. Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic Constitutional State In: Taylor C. Multiculturalism, pp. 107-148. | ||||||||
| 13 | Mohammadi – Sreberny A. The Many Cultural Faces of Imperialism. In: Beyond cultural imperialism : globalization, communication and the new international order / ed. by Peter Golding and Phil Harris. – pp. 49 – 68. | ||||||||
| 14 | Hanovs D. Can postcolonial theory help explain Latvian politics of integration? Reflections on contemporary Latvia as a postcolonial society, 2016, In: Journal of Baltic Studies 47(1):1-21 | ||||||||
| 15 | Smith A. D. The Rites of Nation: elites, mases and the re-enactment of the national past. p. 21-37. In: The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation Building, Routledge, 2014. | ||||||||
| 16 | Castells M. Cities and Social Theory. – Blackwell, pp. – 34 – 70. | ||||||||
| 17 | Kluczewska-Klich B. Public Space and Private Places within the City. In:Frontiers and Identities. Cities in Regions and Nations, 2008. – pp. 17- 28 | ||||||||
| 18 | Zirne S. Par katliem un dvēselēm:ēdiena gatavošana un dzimte urbānā latviešu mājsaimniecībā. lpp. 157-174. Dzimtes konstruēšana II., Rīga, 2014. | ||||||||
| 19 | Heath J., Potter A. Nation of Rebels. Why Countercultures became Consumer Cultures. – pp. 98-134. | ||||||||
| 20 | Chevalier M., Mazzalovo G. Pro Logo. Brands as a factor of progress.- pp.70.-88. | ||||||||
| 21 | Tisenkopfs T. Izraidīšana no supermarketa. Uzburtā vieta. Rīga, 2007. - lpp. 74-90. | ||||||||
| 22 | Mitter P. The Hottentot Venus and Western Man: reflections on the construction of beauty in the West. – pp. 35 – 50. | ||||||||
| 23 | Dei F. Gender and roles from an anthropologist`s point of view. In: Political systems and definition of gender roles. – Pisa, 2001. – pp. 225 – 233. | ||||||||
| 24 | Forst R. A critical theory of multicultural toleration. In: Laden A., Owen D. (eds.) Multiculturalism and Political Theory. – Cambridge, 2007. – p. 292-303. | ||||||||
| 25 | Barry B. Culture and Equality. An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism. Harvard, 2001. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Belohradsky V. Drei Dämonen.// Lettre internationale. Nr. 96/2012. S. 36-38. | ||||||||
| 2 | Bowman-Grieve L., Exploring “Stormfront”: A Virtual Community of the Radical Right // Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Vol. 32, No. 11, 2009. 989-1007 | ||||||||
| 3 | Gasser U., Palfrey J. Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives. New York., 2008 | ||||||||
| 4 | Gerstenfeld P., Grant D., Chiang C., Hate Online: A Content Analysis of Extremist Internet Sites //Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2003. P. 38 -39. | ||||||||
| 5 | Fengshu Liu, ‘Politically indifferent’ nationalists? Chinese youth negotiating political identity in the internet age // European Journal of Cultural Studies, February 2012: 15, P. 55 | ||||||||
| 6 | Muiznieks N. (ed.), How Integrated is Latvian Society? Riga, 2010. | ||||||||
| 7 | Muiznieks N., Zelče V. (red.), Karojošā piemiņa. 16. marts un 9. maijs. Rīga, 2011. | ||||||||
| 8 | Sampedro V., Introduction: New Trends and Challenges in Political Communication// The International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2011.- P. 431-439. | ||||||||
| 9 | Annus, E. 2012. The Problem of Soviet colonialism in the Baltics. Journal of Baltic Studies, Vol. 43, Number 1: 21-45 | ||||||||
| 10 | Assmann, J. 2000. Das kulturelle Gedächtnis. Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen [Cultural memory. Script, remembering and political identity in early high cultures]. Frankfurt am Main: Becksche Reihe. | ||||||||
| 11 | Assmann, A. 2012. “Transformatsii novogo rezhima vremeni” [Transformations of the new time mode]. Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 116: 16–31. | ||||||||
| 12 | Bal, M. 2006. Kulturanalyse [Analysis of Culture]. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Taschenbuch. | ||||||||
| 13 | Bhabha, H. K. 1994. The Location of Culture. New York: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 14 | Birgerson, S. M. 2002. After the Breakdown of a Multi-ethnic Empire: Russia, Successor States and Eurasian Security. Conn: Praeger. | ||||||||
| 15 | Buck-Morss S. Theorizing Today: The Post-Soviet Condition. Accessed February 15, 2013. | ||||||||
| 16 | Chakrabarty, D., 2000. Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press. | ||||||||
| 17 | Chibber, V., 2013. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. London, New York: Verso. | ||||||||
| 18 | Cooper, F. 2012 Kolonialismus denken: Konzepte und Theorien in kritischer Perspektive [Thinking Colonialism: Concepts and Theories from a Critical Perspective]. Frankfurt: Campus. | ||||||||
| 19 | Cooper, F. 2005. “Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History.” In Postcolonial studies and beyond, edited by Loomba, A., Kaul, S., Bunzl, M., Burton, A., Esty, J., 401–422. Durham and London: Duke University Press. | ||||||||
| 20 | Galbreath, David J. Still "Treading Air"? Looking at the Post-Enlargement Challenges to Democracy in the Baltic States. Demokratizatsiya. Winter 2008, Vol. 16 Issue 1: 87-96. | ||||||||
| 21 | Grabher, G. and Stark, D., eds. 1997. Restructuring Networks in Post-Socialism: Legacies, Linkages and Localities. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | ||||||||
| 22 | Götz N., Hackmann J. 2003. Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited. | ||||||||
| 23 | Hanovs, D., Teraudkalns, V. 2012. “Denying the Other in the Cyber Space: Democracy and Political Culture in Latvia. Analysis of the Internet Campaign “For Mother Tongue” (November 2011)”. In Ethnicity. Towards the Politics of Recognition in Latvia | ||||||||
| 24 | Hanovs, D. 2011. “What Should be Done with the Other? Ethnic Diversity in Integration Policy in Latvia.” Ethnicity 4: 33–54. | ||||||||
| 25 | Hanovs, D. 2011. “Latvian Parliamentary Elections 2011: Virtual Democracy, Flash Mobs and the Rise of “National Alliance”. Ethnicity 5: 24–42. A | ||||||||
| 26 | Etkind, A., Uffelmann, D., Kukulin, I., eds. 2012. Tam, vnutri. Praktiki vnutrennei kolonizatsii v kul’turnoi istorii Rossii [There, inside. Internal Colonization Practices in the Cultural History of Russia], 6–52. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozreni | ||||||||
| 27 | Ījabs, I., 2013. “No mīļotajiem nešķirieties” [Don’t Part With Your Loved Ones]. Rigas Laiks, February. | ||||||||
| 28 | Mintaurs, M. 2012. “Katram var but savs prieksstats par taureni” [Everyone may have their own idea of a butterfly. Latvju teksti 10. | ||||||||
| 29 | Nora P. 1998. Zwischen Geschichte und Gedächtnis [Between History and Memory]. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer. | ||||||||
| 30 | Neimanis, G. J. 1997. The Collapse of the Soviet Empire: A View from Riga. London: Praeger. | ||||||||
| 31 | Račevskis, K. 2006. K. Towards a Postcolonial Perspective on the Baltic States In Baltic Postcolonialism. On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics. edited by Kelertas, V. 165-186. Amsterdam/ New York: Rod | ||||||||
