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Intercultural Competence Training
An Introductory Workshop for Engineering Students
Contents
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Developing Key Cross-Cultural Problem Solving Skills for the International Workspace
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Importance of „Face“ in Engineering Work
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Hidden Conflicts in „International English"
This workshop utilizes an integrated systems approach that is highly compatible with the learning style and problem-solving style of engineers. It focusses on structuring and managing cultural knowledge into analytical tools that can be applied (i.e. transferred) to understanding and diagnosing the cultural variable, where they may exist, in intercultural work/study scenarios.
Background
Engineers today are required to build professional re-lationships, develop and implement projects, and trou-bleshoot across the widest cultural distances. Formal culture training provides a rational-analytic tool for un-derstanding the cultural variable and assessing poten-tial risks in international work. Cultural metacognitive knowledge and skills have been identified to be foun-dational for problem-solving in the cultural context, as well as on-going cultural learning in compact, inten-sive training interventions.
Language
English (with German parts whenever required)
Applications by mail to schiffmann@fvt.rub.de (Laura Schiffmann, IC 4/151)
Contact
Laura Schiffmann, M.A.
schiffmann@fvt.rub.de
