LIR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Prezi, Proxemics, Pragmatics
19 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
LIR100-01
Global Models in Intercultural Relations
Lecture 1
Vietnamese ice coffee- research about it
Note taking
- Prezi
- Participation
- Readings- make further connections with Prezi’s and class
- Make notes on stories, demonstrations, on big titles etc.
Evaluations
- Lecture interaction- partly through tophat and talking out through class when asked for
participation: 15%
- 3 reading quizzes on D2L- have 3-4 readings then have to do a quiz on it, get familiar
with readings before going into quiz: 15%- Feb 2, March 9, April 6
- proxemics observation done in Chinatown- anthropological field work, related to
proxemics (observation with distance between things), comparing observations in china
town with main stream situations: 10%- Feb 14
- lab study, sign up beginning of next week: 5%
- midterm exam- Feb 26: 10%
- cultural dimensions reports (2): 20%- Mar 16, Mar 30
- final exam: 25%
Course is about
- global models- geophysical, cultural landscape
Ear piece differences
- movie:
- real life app: translate may be incorrect (google translate), cannot teach a machine
everything about culture and language
Pragmatics- define
“Global village”
Marshall Mclewn- philosopher
- every action and reaction happens simultaneously
- world has imploded and everything becomes small
- even though we speak different languages we all belong to the same tribe
- effects of news media- glasses are media, media reshapes consciousness (you can’t go
back once you learn to write), rely more heavily on things you learn
- relying on communication devices makes us think communication is easy
- our intimate sense of self is related to global village
- critical understanding
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