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Culture and
Organisation:
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| Exam ECTS |
7,5 |
| Examination form |
Home assignment - written product |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual |
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CEO is designed to integrate with the 5th
semester course in Organisation and Corporate Communication and the
3rd Year Project. |
| Size of written product |
Max. 10 pages |
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•The course concludes with a 10-standard page
essay, written individually, where students select a particular
issue in connection with their exchange experiences and/or their
Danish fieldwork.
•Grades are given according to the 7-point grading scale by an
examiner and a second internal examiner.
•The essay may take its point of departure in a particular
incident/experience, and discuss it in the light of the theoretical
perspectives and concepts taught during the course.
•Students, organised in groups of 4-6, will sign up to a theme
(e.g. ‘difference’ ‘culture shock’, ‘communication’, ‘experience’)
and will also during the course be required to make two compulsory
joint presentations concerning the exchange logbook and their
‘fieldwork at home’ at two workshops, where they will reflect on
their experiences in the light of the theoretical concepts taught
during the course. Opponent groups and a teacher give feedback on
presentations. |
| Assignment type |
Written assignment |
| Duration |
Written product to be submitted on specified date
and time. |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
One internal examiner |
| Exam period |
Summer |
| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary
exam
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Today’s BLC graduates are likely to be employed in
multicultural organisations both in Denmark and abroad. The ability
to work effectively with people from a wide range of backgrounds is
therefore increasingly crucial. Collaborative abilities, a
professional attitude, and awareness of one’s own cultural
situatedness, and that of one’s organisation, are important
elements in enabling this.
“Culture & Organisation” is designed to foster and train these
abilities. The aim of the course is to encourage critical
reflexivity concerning students’ awareness of their own cultural
situatedness, and the ways in which they apprehend and negotiate
difference both in a foreign context and at ‘home’. This is
achieved in two ways in this course. First, we will follow up on
students’ experiences from their semester abroad in Module 1
(including Workshop 1) using exercises, presentations and opponent
sessions. Students, organised in groups across their language
classes, will discuss their exchange experiences at the workshop.
Data will be drawn from an electronic media platform (the ‘exchange
log book) accessible only to the class group, which they are
required to post on during their exchange. Students will, at the
same time, be introduced to different approaches to culture, self
and identity (e.g. essentialist, constructivist, symbolist,
structural-functionalist, post-modern). Second, during Module 2,
students will be introduced to major theories of organisational
culture, and will be required to carry out a short fieldwork at a
Danish organisation (CBS or another organisation of their choice),
where they will apply ethnographic and organisational research
techniques taught during the course with a view to learning how to
carry out a cultural analysis of a familiar environment. Students
will thus be expected to draw on the perspectives and concepts
taught during the course in explaining and reflecting on their
experiences both abroad and at home. The ethnographic and
organisational culture inquiry techniques students learn during the
course are also intended to be of further use during their 3rd Year
Project.
Guidelines for the exchange log book will be distributed at the end
of the 3rd semester before the students leave for their semester
abroad.
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| The semester is organised as lectures
and workshops where students are to apply the conceptual tools they
have been taught on data from their logs and their fieldwork in a
Danish organisation. Students are required to keep a log whilst
abroad, containing thoughts, anecdotes, interviews, images, music,
newspaper articles, film clips, etc. that they found
thought-provoking, interesting, shocking, surprising, etc. This
log, and the reports from students’ fieldwork at an organization in
Denmark, will serve as the point of departure for the workshop
exercises carried out during this semester. Exercises will include,
inter alia, presentations and opponent sessions. |
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