For Fact Question Discussion Boards, you will discuss an idea from the chapter reading. The purpose of this thread is to help you learn correct,
... [Show More] research-based information. To begin:
1. Read the textbook assignment.
2. Choose a question to answer from the questions below. You may want or need to use an additional resource
3. Answer the question with a five to seven sentence response and answer it as if you are leading the class so other students will also know the right answer.
A: Paraphrase the information into your own words.
B: For opinion based questions, use textbook based terminology and examples to back your claims.
4. Respond to a minimum of two classmate Fact Question responses with well thought four to six sentence responses, focusing on the implications of the classmates answers.
Questions
1. List and discuss the benefits of intercultural communication.
2. Give statistics and discuss the increasing racial and ethnic diversity in the U.S. population.
3. Identify and discuss the eight dimensions of communication.
4. Assess your degree of communication apprehension.
5. Define and discuss the nature of culture.
6. Discuss the five contexts of intercultural communication.
7. Discuss the relationship between intercultural communication, uncertainty, and anxiety.
8. Assess your degree of intercultural communication apprehension.
9. Identify and discuss the five fundamental assumptions of intercultural communication
10. Assess your degree of ethnocentrism.
11. Compare and contrast individualism and collectivism.
12. Identify some cultures that are individualistic and some that are collectivistic.
13. Compare and contrast high and low context cultures.
14. Identify some cultures that are high context and some that are low context.
15. Compare value orientations among cultures.
16. Compare and contrast high and low power distance cultures.
17. Identify some cultures that are high power distance and some that are low power distance.
18. Compare and contrast high and low uncertainty avoidant cultures.
19. Identify some cultures that are high uncertainty avoidant and some that are low uncertainty avoidant.
20. Assess your degree of individualism/collectivism, high/low context, power distance, and uncertainty avoidance. [Show Less]