Are you interested in learning how to cope with intercultural complexities to improve your career prospects?Whatever your job will be after graduating you are likely to be working in culturally complex contexts. Companies and organisations are increasingly becoming more intercultural and seeking employees with both a solid academic background and strong personal skills of cooperating across cultural boundaries.This course will introduce you to a variety of factors contributing to the increase in intercultural exchanges. The course will particularly focus on how global companies face different intercultural challenges. Representatives from global companies will be invited to present their intercultural challenges and discuss solutions with you. You will also be working on a project based on authentic case studies of intercultural challenges to present for final assessment.The overall aim of the summer school is to provide you with insights and tools to analyse culturally complex situations to provide you with the necessary intercultural competencies so that you may act and communicate successfully in different intercultural contexts.The course is running online 17-21 July and 27-31 July, and on Campus in Aarhus 3-14 August.

Course leader
Teacher:Mette Thun http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/mettethunoe@au.dkJan Ifversen http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/jif@au.dk

Target group
Bachelor and Master students within humanities.

Fee info
EUR 333: Price: Students holding a preapproval including exchange students do not pay for the course.ONLY Free-mover students and Tomplads students MUST pay for the course: Danish and EU/ES (tomplads): 333 EURNON-EU-ES students (free-mover): 998 EURBooks, course materials, social programme, and housing are not included in the tuition fee. Also be aware of course specific expenses mentioned in the description.

Scholarships
no scholarships

Aarhus University
Address: International Centre, H%C3%B8egh Guldbergsgade 4-6
Postal code: 8000
City: Aarhus
Country: Denmark
Website: www.au.dk/summeruniversity
E-mail: dfs@au.dk
Phone: +4551335274