
- Dozent/in: Lali Banerji
- Dozent/in: Natalia Fischer-Giannini
- Dozent/in: Monica Hoogstad
- Dozent/in: Charles Walls
Intercultural Competence for Nurse Educators is a course designed to equip you with the essential knowledge, skills and sensitivities necessary to effectively navigate the diverse cultural landscape within healthcare education and practice. Throughout this course, you’ll delve into the complexities of intercultural interactions, examining the impact of culture on patient care and collaboration among healthcare professionals. The course also offers you the opportunity to develop your critical thinking and, consequently, revisit your language and change the narratives on topics such as diversity and inclusion, bias and prejudice, microaggressions etc.
Approach: experiential and discussion-based (e.g. self-reflection, case study analyses, debates)
Focus: developing academic communication skills: reading, writing, intercultural awareness
Language of communication: English, CEF levels B2 – C1
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
1) Understand cultural diversity --> We’ll explore the concepts of culture, diversity and their significance in healthcare settings. We’ll analyse how cultural backgrounds influence beliefs, values and communication styles, affecting patient-nurse relationships and healthcare outcomes.
2) Enhance cultural sensitivity --> We’ll reflect on our own cultural biases and prejudice and use this to gain personal growth, by learning how to approach interactions with an open and empathetic mindset.
3) Foster culturally inclusive learning environments --> We’ll create culturally inclusive classrooms and clinical settings, by developing techniques meant to promote diversity and inclusiveness.
4) Understand and use professional jargon --> We’ll read articles on nursing and learn how to glean relevant professional lexis from the texts
International Social Issues is an interdisciplinary course, whose aim is to equip you with knowledge and skills to understand and tackle current global challenges that affect human society on a large scale. We will scrutinise and critically analyse the local, national and global responses to the issues societies are currently facing. We’ll have vivid debates taking as starting points real-life critical incidents and case studies on three main topics divided into several relevant subtopics:
You will have the opportunity to practise English in a risk-free environment, fundamentally different from traditional language classes. Instead of dwelling on grammar mistakes and phonology drills, we’ll focus on helping you improve your academic communication skills, such as debating and academic writing (paragraph structure, hedging, impact strategies, persuasion)
Teaching approach: experiential and discussion-based (e.g., self-reflection, case study analyses, group talks)
Focus: developing academic communication skills: debating, writing, presenting
Assessment is optional, but recommended for those of you who are doing the Fachsprachenzertifikat: reflection & analysis tasks, presentations (oral exam), essay writing (written exam)
Language of communication: English, CEF level C1
By the end of the course, you should be able to:
Nach erfolgreichem Abschluss des Moduls verfügen die Studierende über folgende Fähigkeiten und Kompetenzen:
Studierende …
WP-Modul, Bachelor Bauingenieurwesen
Modul zur Planung von Fertigteilkonstruktionen.
Students learn how they can apply parity conditions to international transactions. They can perform investment analysis in an international context. They know strategies to mitigate political risk and can apply them to investment problems. They can develop, present and argue for solutions for multinational investment- and finance decisions.
Contents of the module
- Exchange rates
- International parity conditions
- Hedging strategies
- International investment analysis and international capital budgeting
- Political risk - Current topics