Master
2025/2026
Intercultural Mediation
Type:
Elective course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
2 year, 1, 2 module
Online hours:
20
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Language:
English
Contact hours:
40
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The concept of intercultural mediation is dwelt upon in multiple ways. The course focuses on the issues of linguacultural brokerage, translating the scapes, double coding and double dealing, conflict third-party mediation, nexus of language, communication, and culture, intercultural ethics as mediation, pragmatics of politeness, arts and tourism as mediators, cross-cultural hermeneutics, to name but a few.