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IE3 Seminar ICC: Lesson 12

7/1/2015

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Hi everyone,

We've almost finished our course, and will be starting our presentations in next week's lesson!

Nonverbal Communication:
We finished our unit on nonverbal communication for the first part of our lesson. We continued with the different types of nonverbal communication. We discussed (a) para-language: (b) silence; (c) haptics; (d) physical appearance and clothing; and (e) olfactics.

Women and Culture:
We then moved on to our last unit on the role gender plays in different cultures. We discussed the limitations of traditional gender roles and then look at how gender equality is measured in different countries. There are a variety of indexes, such as the United Nations' Gender-Related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GMI). Both of these indexes are combined in an annual global report called the Global Gender Gap. With this report, we looked at Japan's ranking. For your blog comment, you'll need to choose one country and explain its gender gap ranking.

In next week's lesson, we'll finished our unit on women and culture with a focus on violence towards women in different cultures.

Homework:
1.  Complete your presentation
  • Next week: Hispanic-American & Amish cultures
2.  Blog Comment #11

Blog Question #11:

  1. Choose one country from the Global Gender Report 2014 (except Japan). Summarize the position of women in that society (e.g. high gender equality or low gender equality) using these categories (overall global ranking, Economic Participation, Education, Health and Political Participation).
  2. Explain how the global ranking has changed since 2006 and give reasons for this change.
You cannot choose the same country as other classmates. Post your comment early so that you get first choice of your country.

*Write 150-200 words.
*Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly.
*Submit by Monday, July 6 by 6:00pm.
Global Gender Gap Report 2014
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IE3 Seminar ICC: Lesson 11

6/27/2015

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Hi everyone,

We're almost finished with the units from our textbook, and then we'll be starting our group presentations.

Language as a Barrier:
We finished up last week's lecture about translation problems and how they can be a barrier to intercultural communication.

We looks at how it can be a challenge to translate:
1. experiential equivalence
2. conceptional equivalence

For experiential equivalence, we took a look at the difficulty in translating "setsumeikai" into English since there are different contexts for how it is used in the Japanese language. When referring to job hunting, we came up with the translation "job recruitment seminar" and "job recruitment fair."

Nonverbal Communication:
We then moved on to nonverbal communication and the functions of it. We mostly focused on how nonverbal communication is used to replace spoken messages and to support spoken messages.

We had an activity on the use of symbols as a way to replace spoken messages, and then we had a gesture game to show how gestures are used to support spoken messages.

Remember to use nonverbal communication in your upcoming presentations.

Homework:
1.  Complete your presentation
2.  Blog Comment #10

3. 
Reading pp. 233-261 (ch. 10) and worksheet
  • Please download the worksheet at the end of the summary. This will be your "reflection topic" for this week. I'll collect the worksheet at the beginning of next week's lesson.

Blog Question #10:

Tell me about a time you had to use nonverbal communication (in Japanese or English).
  • What was the function of it?
  • How was it interpreted (by the other person)?
  • Was it effective?

*Write 150-200 words.
*Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly.
*Submit by Monday, June 29 by 6:00pm.
Women & Families Worksheet
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