>>> Intercultural Communications class
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>> There’s part of the problem right there.
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> I do suspect that the course catalog description did him (and everybody else enrolled) a major disservice.
I’m going to disagree w/mtg and somewhat agree w/alancarp: there’s whole segments of business that need intercultural communication — any international business really... and that’s saying nothing of interpreters and diplomats. (The caveat being that it has to actually be about communication.)
Is that ever true. A few years ago, I had a business editorial assignment dealing with "eyeball hangtime" -- a biologically measurable aspect of human communication about how long people typically look at visual stimuli before moving on.
I went to several of the libraries at an Ivy League university, including its renowned school of communications, to research the issue. Not only was there no information or scholarly work on this practical phenomenon; but the vast majority of scholarly journals focused on communicating by, with or about gays and lesbians.
What?