SOA1001 Culture and Communication
- Course codeSOA1001
- Number of credits15
- Teaching semester2024 Spring
- Language of instructionEnglish
- CampusLillehammer
- Required prerequisite knowledge
None
The course focuses on the float and exchange of meaning within and between cultures, communities and life-style management. The course addresses issues of concern for students of professional practices as well as disciplinary studies. It includes themes and perspectives from mainly social anthropology, while including also psychology and sociology. The course discusses cultural plurality, social in-equality, migration, ethnicity, gender; communication and the interplay between language, interpersonal relations and social structures.
Learning Outcome
Upoon completion of the course the student
- Understanding of cultural and social plurality.
- Insight in relations between language, power and culture.
- Awareness of relations between communication and social relations.
- Ability to use relevant scholarly terminology and perspectives.
- Ability to pose critical questions to cultural and interpersonal messages.
- Ability to reflect on the shaping and interpretation of communication.
- Ability to reflect on the effect of own and others use of language.
- Develop critical thinking on how culture and communication sustain and re-create certain understandings of reality, which potentially exclude others.
- Reproduce and utilise concepts and main perspectives related to culture and communication.
- Develop respect, openness and tolerance for people of plural and distinct knowledges, cultures, and social positions.
Teaching is a combination of lectures, readings, class discussions, oral individual and group presentations, journal reflections, and group work. Delivery and evaluation of individual og team presentations. The course may include excursions to relevant institutions in the Inland Norway University College area. The students are offered supervision on the group paper in class and/or in group.
- 2 written assignments (of which the second is the exam paper)
- Oral presentations
- 75% attendance
Required attendance and assignments must be approved in order to take the exam
| Form of assessment | Grading scale | Grouping | Duration of assessment | Support materials | Proportion | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kombinasjonseksamen | Passed - not passed | Group |
| Course litterature, intercultural diary, online resources. |
The exam-paper is based on and developed from the first assignment (group paper). The assessment considers the submitted group exam-paper, together with an oral presentation and opposing discussion in class. The paper must be 4000 words/10 pages (+/- 10%).
The exam consists of three parts:
- Oral group presentation
- Group paper
- Oral group presentation of critical comments and questions to assigned group exam-paper
The oral presentation counts for 60% of the mark. The group paper counts for 40% of the mark