Prepares students to anticipate the roles, situations, and expected communication practices they would encounter in engineering firms or other businesses in areas such as the United Kingdom, China, Germany, South America, and the Middle East.

Note: This course meets once a week from January 18th through March 1st, 2005.

Each three-hour session will consist of a discussion of the week's readings, presentations by an engineers or a resource person from the country being studied, and role-playing to practice the communication tasks that are the focus of the week's class.

Intercultural Communication in the Global Workplace, 2nd ed. or 3rd ed.
L Beamer & I. Varner. McGraw Hill, 2001.