Intercultural cooperation skills in academia

Course schedule

Dates Start time End time Coordinator registrations
app/max		    
25th and 27th of October 2023 10:00 17:00 Peter Vermeulen 6 / 15 Registration ended at 15/10/2023

Course description

During your career, including the current context, you will interact with people from culturally diverse backgrounds. In academic contexts, these could include supervisors, colleagues, students and other stakeholders with cultural backgrounds different from your own. This cultural diversity should enrich your views and experiences, but it could sometimes lead to challenges; Is a yes really a yes? Is a deadline strict? Can you be sure that an agreement has been reached and that everyone is committed to it?

This course (2 workshops) will create an awareness and understanding of intercultural aspects, and the impact of your own unconscious cultural perceptions and unwritten rules with actions alongside expectations by other cultures.

The course will be focused on real-life experiences of intercultural situations in academia, all aiming to enable you successfully collaborate more efficiently, in addition to  benefiting pleasurably from diversely cultural contexts.

Learning Outcomes

Scope: the focus is mainly on an academic and research settings

Generally, you will learn how to recognise, handle, value, and enjoy diversity in multi-cultural settings by:

  • understanding the ways cultures can differ in values that make the difference in cooperating
  • identifying own intercultural perceptions and lack of awareness
  • gaining ability to apply intercultural skills to practical work as a PhD and learn to create a rewarding atmosphere of best practices
  • recognizing cultural related problems and resolving them through application of several strategies
  • viewing diversity as a source of creativity in the future careers
  • applying the course’s outcomes to project work, collaboration with supervisors, or interacting with stakeholders in diverse cultural contexts

 

General Information

 

Target Group:
  • All PhDs and Postdoc students
Group size: Max. 15  participants
Course duration:

Two in person workshops

25th and 27th of October 2023
Language: English
Credit points: 0.7 ECTS
Self-study hours/ assignments: 2-3 hours
Name lecturer:

Sandy Barasa,

Assistant Professor, Centre for Language Studies

Faculty of Arts, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Venue: Wageningen Campus

Programme

The programme will be tailored to the participants background, experiences and needs.

Fee

1) Reduced fee:

  • PhD of Wageningen University with an approved Training and Supervision Plan (TSP) who are registered at one of the WU graduate schools (EPS, PE&RC, VLAG, WASS, WIAS, WIMEK) and
    EngD candidates and Postdocs of Wageningen University who are registered at one of the WU graduate schools:

early bird:

€140 

regular fee:

€190
2) University fee: All other PhD candidates / Wageningen University postdocs:

early bird:

€280

Regular fee:

€330

Cancellation condition

You may cancel free of charge up to 1 month before the start of the course. After this date you will be charged the University fee. Unless:

  • You can find someone to replace you in the course and supply the course coordinator with the name and contact information of your replacement. In this case you will only be charged a € 20,- cancellation fee.
  • You (PhDs and postdocs of Wageningen University) have a valid reason to cancel (illness or death in the family 1st or 2nd degree).
    In this case you will be charged the reduced fee and your supervisor/PI must send a mail indicating the reason for cancellation.

Information

For more information please contact Elackiya.sithamparanathan@wur.nl