Assignments for the week beginning April 28th April

This is for all of my Cultural Diversity classes.

Cross-Cultural Communication

In the same groups in which you made your Cultural diversity film, please do this project and put a hardcopy in the box on my desk and also upload to your blog.

1.      Study the Cross-Cultural Communication PowerPoint on the blog (you have also been given a hard-copy)

2.      Read the Outsourced study guide and questions

3.      Watch and enjoy the comedy movie “Outsourced”

 

        and answer the questions

(There is a hotel scene in the movie which is culturally inappropriate, so of course I always fast forward it when I play it in class – please do the same.)

4.      Prepare a PowerPoint presentation about Outsourced and give many examples of the cross-cultural communication problems in the movie. Make sure that you are able to talk about the following Cultural Dimensions. Help! There are explanations and examples after the questions!

Cultural Dimension	Character Todd, Puro, Aisha or other	Outsourced Scene or Circumstance
Low-context culture
High-context culture
Individualism
Collectivism
Low power distance
High power distance
Uncertainty tolerance
Uncertainty avoidance
Task orientation
Social orientation

 

5.      Use pictures from the movie in your presentation (I have already uploaded a video of possible pictures)

6.      Of course, everyone in your group must be prepared to talk about any of the pictures

7.      If you finish this project early, you may start your final presentation project which I have also uploaded. It is to be done individually and is worth 30%