2021/2022 BA-BBLCO2104U Cultural Identity and Analysis
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Cultural Identity and Analysis |
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Language | English |
Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
Type | Mandatory |
Level | Bachelor |
Duration | One Semester |
Start time of the course | Spring |
Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
Study board |
Study Board for BSc and MSc in Business, Language and Culture,
BSc
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Last updated on 23-06-2021 |
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Today’s BLC graduates are likely to be employed in multicultural
organisations in Denmark and/or abroad. The ability to work
effectively with people from a wide range of backgrounds is
therefore increasingly crucial, both when in a foreign environment,
and when ‘at home’ - e.g. in one's own organisational/work
environment. Awareness of one’s own cultural situatedness and
assumptions, both in unfamiliar and familiar contexts,, are
important elements in enabling this.
During the first part of the course we will follow up on students’ experiences from their semester abroad in the lectures, using cases drawn from the ‘exchange log book’, an electronic media platform accessible only to the class and teacher, which students are required to post on during their exchange. We will use the posts as data and discuss them in the light of the course theories and concepts. Students will be introduced to different approaches to culture, identity and difference (e.g. functionalist, interpretive, post-modern).
During the second part of the course, we will focus on the challenges involved in carrying out a cultural analysis of a familiar environment, e.g. a Danish organisation or institution (such as CBS, a workplace, sports club or family context).
Students will thus be expected to draw on the perspectives and concepts taught during the course in explaining and reflecting on their experiences both in familiar and unfamiliar contexts. The cultural analysis techniques students learn during the course are also intended to equip students with conceptual and methodological tools that they can deploy when writing their bachelor project.
Guidelines for the exchange log book will be distributed at the end of the 4th semester before the students leave for their semester abroad. |
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The semester is organised as lectures, as well as
a supervision session and a workshop involving presentations and
discussions of the student groups' ideas for exam their
assignment, as well as teacher feedback. These different learning
situations will equip students to apply the conceptual tools they
have been taught in order to analyse their experiences with
familiar and unfamiliar cultures.
Data about exchange experiences will be generated by the students themselves, who are required to post on a virtual platform whilst on exchange, regarding their experiences, anecdotes, interviews, images, music, newspaper articles, film clips, etc. that they found thought-provoking, interesting, shocking, surprising, etc. |
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The students receive feedback twice during the
course.
The first feedback session takes the form of a supervision meeting at which the students receive feedback on their ideas for their exam assignment (submitted to their supervision teacher prior to the supervision session in the form of a maximum 2-page WIP document). The second feedback session takes the form of a workshop, at which the students present a 5-page practice assignment (which represents the further development of their 2-page WIP supervision document) prior to the workshop, and receive feedback on it at the workshop from peers and from their workshop teacher. Students are also strongly encouraged to make use of the coordinator's office hours to discuss their assignment ideas or other aspects of the course. |
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Further Information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
This course will run for the first time in Spring 2024. |
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To be announced on Canvas |