Master 2025/2026

Adviser's Seminar "Current Paradigms of Inter- and Cross-Cultural Communication"

Type: Compulsory course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 1 year, 1-4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Мошняга Елена Викторовна

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The seminar is aimed at a deeper exploration of basic paradigmatic issues of intercultural and cross-cultural communication: Self and Other, Otherness and Otherisation, In-groups vs. Out-groups, Social and Cultural Identity, Mentality, Basic Personality, Paradigms of seeing or making sense of the world, Values – Beliefs – Attitudes – Norms – Worldview, Paradigm of ideology, Intercultural dialogue, Intercultural mediation, Cross-cultural communication as cross-cultural research. The seminar also targets the design of students' trajectories in the field. It focuses on educational and professional standards (e.g., ethics) as well as their personal contribution to theoretical and practical research. Projects in the field of communication are highlighted. An important aspect of the seminar is discussing preliminary and final outcomes of students' dissertation research.