Week |
Seminar Topics |
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Assignment Due |
Sept 18 |
Welcome & Expectations:
Basics of Cross-Cultural Research |
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Sept 25 |
Dimensions and Models of Cross-Cultural Communication |
- CCC Chapter 2-3: Important Thinkers (ebook)
- Mooij & Hofstede (2010): The Hofstede Model
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Oct 2 |
Cross-Cultural Communication and Advertising |
- Shankar, Shalini (2014) Advertising Diversity: Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers. Durham and London: Duke University Press Chapter 2 (Creative )and 3 (Accounting Service)
- Prieler, M (2010) Othering, racial hierarchies and identity constructions in Japanese television advertising. International Journal of Cultural Studies 13(5): 511-529.
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Cultural Self-Analysis
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Oct 9 |
Food and Nationa Image; Migration & Global/intercultural Citizenship |
- Urban Foodways and Communicatoin (ebook), chapter 3,5, 7
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Oct 16 |
Media, Globalization and Popular Culture |
- Iwabuchi (2010) Globalization, East Asia media cultures and their publics
- Occhi (2012) Kyara (Characters)
- Choe, Youngmin (2016)Tourist Distractions: Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema Duke University Press. Chapter 2 (e-book)
- Kritika Kultura 28 (2017) Backlash of Hallyu in SE Asia
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Oct 23 |
Cultural Tourism, Authenitcity and Sustainability |
- Dorsey et al (2004) advertising ecotourism on the Internet
- Amaro and Duarte (2017) Social media use for travel purposes: a cross cultural comparison between Portugal and the UK
- Schweinsberg, Darcy and Chen (2017) The agenda-setting power of news media in framing the future of tourism in protected areas
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Cross-Cultural Interview Reflection |
Oct 30 |
Culture & Identity: TCKs and Multiculturalism |
- Fail, Thompson and Walker (2004) Third Culture Kids
- Prato (2009)
- Guilhermea and Dietz (2015)
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Nov 6 |
Cultural Display
Tour of NCCU Museum of Ethnology |
- Supplemented readings on indiginous museum in Taiwan are posted on Moodle
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Final Project abstract
(1 page) |
Nov 13 |
Mid-Term Discussion:
Project Progress |
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Nov 20 |
Cross-Cultural Communication Issue: comparisons between Indigenous tribes in Taiwan and native American
(Guest Speaker Event) |
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Nov 27 |
Issue: Cultural Tourism in SE Asia (Guest Speaker Event) |
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Dec 4 |
Fieldwork for final project |
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Critical Media Project |
Dec 11 |
Issue: Political Economy in SE Asia (Guest Speaker Event)
Final Project Oral Discussion (1 hour) |
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Dec 18 |
Cross-Cultural Communication and News Media (Guest Speaker Event)
Final Project Oral Discussion (1 hour) |
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Dec 25 |
Fieldwork for final project |
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Jan 1
(2019) |
Holiday – no class |
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Jan 8 |
Fieldwork for final project |
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Jan 15 |
Wrap Up: |
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Final Paper |