The seminar focuses on Intercultural Communication, a rather young interdisciplinary field
of study that investigates human action and communication in intercultural contact situations, the influence of cultural diversity on the interactive action, as well as the construction
processes of cultural differences in media and societal communication processes.
Students will acquire and deepen the thematic, theoretical and methodological knowledge and skills that enables them to analyze and interpret intercultural communication phenomena in different societal contexts – and especially in the context of media communication. They will furthermore practice their (interculturally competent) social research skills by carrying out their own self-designed study project on a self-defined intercultural topic. The results of the individual projects will be presented and discussed in the plenum sessions and are summarized in the final term paper.