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Oct 23, 2026
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CMST 2210 - Intercultural Communication
Credits: 3
Catalog Description
This course explores intercultural communication within the individual, interpersonal, organizational, and societal context. Topics covered include cultural identity, verbal and non-verbal behavior, perception, dominant versus non-dominant cultural values and beliefs, present and historical cultural contexts, and other factors that facilitate or inhibit effective intercultural communication.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC) Goal Area(s) fulfilled: Goal 07A: Human Diversity, Race, Power, and Justice in the United States, Goal 08: Global Perspective
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Define culture, communication, and intercultural communication.
- Understand how power, dominance, and non-dominance manifest themselves in intercultural communication within the United States.
- Explore how cultural identity shapes, and is shaped by, communication.
- Assess one’s own personal intercultural communication competency as a student in the United States.
- Understand intercultural communication within an organizational context.
- Examine intercultural communication and inequities within contexts such as organizations, education, and health care in the United States and beyond.
- Discuss the role that media plays in influencing cultural perceptions.
- Analyze factors that impact intercultural communication in historical and contemporary contexts within the United States and beyond.
- Compare and contrast patterns of thought, value, belief, and behavior (verbal and nonverbal) exhibited in different cultures.
- Explain the need for intercultural communication competency in the United States and in our global and ever-changing world.
- Define the role of perception and bias in intercultural communication interactions.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Understanding intercultural communication
- Understanding international cultures and diversity
- Power and culture
- Relationship between culture and context
- Language and culture
- Nonverbal communication and culture
- Competent intercultural communication
- Ethical considerations for intercultural communication
- Media and cultural biases
- Cultural inequities
Credit for Prior Learning Options
No credit for prior learning option is available for this course.
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