International Communication Minor

Total units 24 Units

Minor code ICOM-MIN

Academic career Undergraduate

In the contemporary globalized world, where the tempo and intensity of international contacts are continually strengthening, the role of international communication has become increasingly crucial.

This minor will help students develop an understanding of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural issues involved in international communication. Since different nations are associated with different languages and cultures, international communication is inseparable from intercultural communication – in the era of ‘global English’ more than ever, because one ‘international English’ can conceal deep differences in cultural assumptions. This minor will explore issues involved in interaction between speakers from different backgrounds and will equip them with conceptual tools to explore those issues.

The minor will include either one year of language study (for beginners) or one semester of language study (for non-beginners), one compulsory course (for everyone), for beginners one other course from a list of eight and for non-beginners two other courses from the same list.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

demonstrate an understanding of the nature of the complex and multifaceted relations between communication, culture, language and identity;
demonstrate an understanding of the limits of translatability of key concepts across languages, and the implications of these limits for international communication;
analyze cultural assumptions underlying expressions such as “the ideals of freedom, democracy, and the rule of law” (Obama 2006: p. 284) and explain their linguistic underpinnings;
explain the sources of miscommunication between speakers of different linguistic and cultural backgrounds who communicate using English as a lingua franca;
demonstrate and understanding of potential sources of miscommunication within multilingual and multi-cultural societies such as Australia.
Students will have basic knowledge of another language, sufficient for basic communication and for understanding of the issues that can arise in international communication due to linguistic differences

Relevant Degrees

Bachelor of Arts (BARTS)

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Requirements

This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:

A maximum of 12 units from completion of 1000-level courses

12 units from completion of courses from any Majors, Minors or courses on the following list:

Arabic major

Burmese Language minor

Chinese Language major

French Language and Culture major

German Language and Culture major

Hindi Language major

Indonesian Language major

Italian Language and Culture major

Japanese Language major

Korean Language major

Mongolian Language minor

Persian major

Russian minor

Sanskrit Language major

Vietnamese Language major

AUST1001 Learning an Indigenous Australian Language

AUST2008 Learning an Indigenous Australian language 2

JAVA2005 Modern Javanese A

JAVA3005 Modern Javanese B

LING2107 Academic English

PORT1001 Introductory Portuguese I

PORT1002 Introductory Portuguese II

PORT2001 Continuing Portuguese I

PORT2002 Continuing Portuguese II

TURK1001 Elementary Turkish A

TURK2001 Intermediate Turkish A

TURK1002 Elementary Turkish B

TURK2002 Intermediate Turkish B

6 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
LING2021	Cross Cultural Communication	6

6 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
ANTH1003	Global Citizen: Culture, Development and Inequality	6
ANTH2009	Culture and Development	6
ANTH2017	Culture, Social Justice and Aboriginal Society Today	6
ANTH2025	Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective	6
ANTH2129	Crossing Borders: Migration, Identity and Livelihood	6
ANTH2130	Violence and Terror	6
ANTH3017	Indigenous Worlds: Challenges of Emergence, Recognition, and Change	6
ASIA2001	Language in Asia and the Pacific	6
ASIA2014	China Now: Discourse, Media and Culture	6
ASIA2308	Linguistic Histories in Asia and the Pacific	6
ASIA2311	Gender and Cultural Studies in Asia and the Pacific	6
	ASIA 2413: Vietnam: Hist & Soc
ASIA2516	Indonesia: Politics, Society and Development	6
	ASIA 3015: State-Society Relations
AUST1001	Learning an Indigenous Australian Language	6
AUST2008	Learning an Indigenous Australian language 2	6
BUSI3029	Cross-Cultural Management	6
GEND2035	Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective	6
HIST2121	Electric Citizens: The Rise of the Modern Media in the United States, 1865-2000	6
HIST2243	Vikings, Crusades, Mongols: Shaping Medieval Europe, c. 850–1300	6
HUMN2001	Digital Humanities: Theories and Projects	6
INDG1001	Indigenous Peoples, Populations and Communities	6
INDG2001	Indigenous Cultural and Natural Resource Management	6
LANG3001	Translation across Languages: the translation of literary texts	6
LANG3002	Translation across Languages: specialised material	6
	LANG 3003: Cont Euro Narrative
LANG3004	Language and Society in Latin America	6
LANG3005	Language and Identity in a European Context	6
LING1002	Language and Society	6
LING2015	Language, Culture, Translation	6
LING2018	Languages in Contact	6
LING2022	Language Policy and Language Politics	6
LING2027	Language and Society in Latin America	6
LING2103	Language, Power, and Identity	6
LING2106	Language and Social Interaction	6
LING3008	Study of A Language Family	6
LING2040	Austronesian languages	6
LING3031	Papuan Languages	6
MEAS2000	Iranian History and Culture	6
MEAS2003	Modern Turkey: History, Culture and Regional Relations	6
	MEAS 2107: Gender & Culture in MiddleEast
PASI2010	Talking the Pacific: Melanesian pidgins and creoles in social context	6
PASI3001	The Contemporary Pacific: Society, Politics and Development	6
PHIL2111	Global Citizens	6
POLS2064	Global Social Movements	6
POLS2101	Refugee Politics: Displacement and Exclusion in the 20th and 21st Centuries	6
POLS3037	Globalisation: Communications, Culture and Democracy	6
SCOM3029	Cross Cultural Perspectives in Science Communication	6
SOCY2060	Mobile Societies	6
	SOCY 2061: Contemporary Chinese Society
SOCY2163	Identity, Difference and Racism	6
SPAN3031	Advanced Spanish Topics in Language and Linguistics	6

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