Inter-cultural Encounters (Q1065B)

15 credits, Level 5

Autumn teaching

This module seeks to promote cultural awareness and inter-cultural comprehension. You’ll define what is meant by ‘culture’ and analyse your own cultural backgrounds and attitudes. You’ll consider how and why cultural characteristics arise and whether generalisations (such as national or cultural stereotypes) are ever valid.

In particular, you’ll reflect upon:

• the ways in which culture and language are linked
• how cultural values and attitudes are encoded in language.

You’ll sample various theoretical approaches to these issues by way of:

• original lectures
• prepared seminar questions
• academic essays
• a range of audio-visual sources.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 22 hours of contact time and about 128 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.