Language Studies for Intercultural Communication

This program is conducted exclusively in English. The disciplines in the composition of the curriculum are oriented towards the study, from a macro-linguistic perspective, of a complex of phenomena associated with communication in and between different ethnic and professional communities. What are the variables of intercultural communication situations? How can they be systematically investigated? What forms does the transfer of meanings and messages take from one linguistic community to another? Teaching and learning are based on heuristic methods that involve the students’ involvement in individual and team activities and projects, solving concrete communication problems, as well as creating opportunities for the implementation of discovered information. The priority is to train specialists capable of identifying cultural variations in real time and interpreting them in the spirit of cultural and linguistic relativism in order to successfully interact in different cultural contexts and communication situations.