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Integration Problems in Intercultural Contexts
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:27.08.2019 14:03:32
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | MDAK_296 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sociology; Theory and History of Sociology | Target Audience: | Nursing Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ilona Zariņa | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Nursing and Obstetric Care | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Rīga, Anniņmuižas bulvāris 26a, mdak rsu[pnkts]lv, mdakrsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061568 | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Care process and ethics, general psychology, interpersonal communication in health care, transcultural care. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To promote students' understanding and ability to successfully plan, implement and evaluate solutions to intercultural care problems – for the individual, the group and the community, based on understanding and tolerance. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Practical exercise. Discussion. Introduction to cultural diversity. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Knowledge of cultural sensitive professional activities – globalization, migration. Examples, studies. Migration – a description of the situation in Latvia and preconditions for the integration of immigrants. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Reactions to diversity. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Intercultural communication. Methodological and practical aspects. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Hate crimes. Minority groups in Latvia and work with them. Examples, studies. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Role plays, exercises. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Diversity and diversity management. Advantages and main challenges. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Evidence-based presentation with group discussion. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students actively participate in lectures and seminars. During the course, students discuss the topic in each lesson, participate in role-playing games, and receive assignments: perform in-depth research on the topic, prepare a presentation with evidence-based data. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Student participation in lectures and classes – 25%; tests in classes – 25%; individually prepared presentation – 50%. The final course paper is presented in a group, discussed, then supplemented and delivered within the deadline. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Oral) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | As a result of the study course students acquire knowledge and understanding of health care system as an organisation and culture, cultural models, responses to diversity, promotion of tolerance. | ||||||||
| Skills: | As a result of the study course students develop skills to analyde, integrate, synthesise acquired knowledge, use it as an approach to patient care. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | As a result of the study course students develop their cultural competence: their understanding of the culture and their knowledge of other cultures, applying it to solving a specific, different problem situation. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Osis J., Ose L.(2006) Pētījumos balstītas stratēģijas tolerances veicināšanai 1.daļa, Rīga:Dialogi | ||||||||
| 2 | Zaķe D., Ose L., Lazda-Mazula I., Viša K.(2013) Starpkultūru komunikācija.Rokasgrāmata. Sabiedrības integrācijas fonds | ||||||||
| 3 | Apinis P.(2007) Latvijas ārsti un pacienti globalizācijas laikmetā, Nacionālais apgāds | ||||||||
| 4 | Kolčanovs B., Zankovska-Odiņa, Zālītis K.(2010) Atšķirīgs klients daudzveidīgā Latvijā, Mācību līdzeklis to iestāžu darbiniekiem, kuri sniedz pakalpojumus trešo valstu valstspiederīgajiem, Latvijas Cilvēktiesību Centrs | ||||||||
| 5 | Hemming E.(2007) An Introduction to Intercultural Communication: https://www.scribd.com/doc/253386490/Introduction-to-Interc… | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Nils Muižnieks. (2006). Nacionālo minoritāšu konvencija – Eiropas pieredze Latvijai. Red., Rīga, LU Apgāds | ||||||||
| 2 | Diversity in Coaching. Working with gender, culture, race and age. Edited by Jonathan Passmore – Association for Coaching, 2009; | ||||||||
| 3 | Philip Clements & John Jones (2008) The Diversity Training handbook. Practical guide to understand & change attitudes – Kogan Page; | ||||||||
| 4 | interneta lapa http://www.workingwithdiversity.com/; | ||||||||
| 5 | Handbook of Multicultural Counseling. Editors, Joseph G. Ponterotto, | ||||||||
| 6 | J. Manuel Casas, Lisa A. Suzuki, Charlene M. Alexander, 3rd edition. (2010) – SAGE Publications; | ||||||||
| 7 | Lambert J., Myers S. (2009) The Diversity Training Activity Book. 50 | ||||||||
| 8 | Schriver, J.M. (2004) Human Behavior and the Social Environment. Pearson&AB, USA. | ||||||||
| 9 | Deborah L. Flowers, RN, PhD Culturally Competent Nursing Care A Challenge for the 21st Century, Crit Care Nurse. 2004 Aug;24(4):48-52. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Antopologija(2004) aut.kolektīvs, Moskovskij psihologo – Sociaļnij intitut | ||||||||
| 2 | Putniņa A. Medicīnas antropoloģija tuvplānā//Doctus Nr.10, 2004 | ||||||||
| 3 | Transcultural Nursing Society: http://www.tcns.org/ | ||||||||
| 4 | Journal of Transcultural Nursing: http://www.tcns.org/JTCN.html | ||||||||
| 5 | Cultural Competence Project: http://www.cultural-competence-project.org/en/index.html | ||||||||
| 6 | www.currentnursing.com | ||||||||
| 7 | www.culturediversity.com | ||||||||
| 8 | www.tcn/sagepub.com | ||||||||
