Course Overview
Creative Leadership and Intercultural Communication is a course aimed at addressing current trends invoking several disciplines – cultural studies, language, business, sociology, and psychology.
In a highly interactive way, it combines the concepts of – effective communication, critical thinking, intercultural encounters, creativity, and leadership – pointing to the need to combine them all when we aspire to achieve success in the modern world.
After the introductory sessions, which briefly lay some relevant, theory-based foundations, the course introduces numerous real-life illustrations and experiences describing present-day needs in life/business, obstacles one might witness while climbing up the corporate ladder, as well as the role of creativity and communication in the process of overcoming them.
In this way, Creative Leadership and Intercultural Communication provides students not only with knowledge of some relevant theoretical concepts, but also, even more importantly, equips them with tools and skills which could improve their own effectiveness in creative thinking and communication, on their way of becoming true leaders.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
Course Content
The course will dominantly cover the topics as follows:
Instructional Method
The course represents a balance between theoretical and practical components – lectures are always followed by practical, hands-on illustration and application of the addressed concepts.
It is characterized by a rather interactive method, including a number of podcasts, video materials, hand-outs, book and movie/TV show excerpts, quizzes – illustrating different circumstances we might find ourselves in, success and failure in communication, misunderstandings, paths of prominent leaders, success stories, etc. Apart from that, students have an opportunity to work on projects examining relevant topics (individually or in groups/pairs).
Required Course Materials
Assessment
At the end of the course, relying on the acquired competences and skills, and in agreement with the fashion of the course itself – students will be working on a project; they will be given a list of topics including the most inspiring, though-provoking concepts covered in the course; each student will choose a topic to his/her preference and compare/contrast the stand of well-known theories with his/her view of the topic (the presentation itself can be an interactive one, including audio-visual support).