This course will give you a solid understanding of intercultural business communication and a range of issues related to cross-cultural business. You'll be well prepared for a career in international tourism, commerce or marketing.
Intercultural business communication deals with the study of communication in intercultural and cross-cultural business contexts. It plays a key role in the global economy and world commerce as it considers cultural differences between international business partners and clients.
Intercultural Business Communication
Intercultural Business Communication
About
You'll discuss the works of major intercultural researchers and the critiques they have received in order to contribute to a more widening debate of intercultural theory and research.
This course gives you grounding in the global economic environment and the opportunity to specialise in an area of business. You'll also study an in-depth introduction to research methodology, appropriate to undertaking research at this level.
With an international outlook, MSc Intercultural Business Communication attracts students from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. By the end of the course, you'll have a systematic understanding of intercultural business communication and competing theories of culture and communication.
You'll also have the ability to critically and flexibly apply theoretical models to cross-cultural business contexts, including those of international marketing, commerce, advertising and tourism.
Lead Academics
Dr Phiona Stanley researches on how people engage in intercultural settings including working abroad, international education, and backpacker tourism, particularly voluntourism. She is an ethnographer, and uses interview-based research and autoethnography. She is particularly focused on how power relations operate in intercultural settings and exploring innovative ways of doing qualitative research, including storytelling within academic texts.
Dr. Nick Pilcher is the programme leader for the MSc in Intercultural Business Communication. He has taught in Japan, Singapore, Argentina and in the UK since 2001. He completed a PhD in 2007 entitled 'Mainland Chinese students and UK supervisors; perceptions and experiences of completing Masters Dissertations.' His areas of study are languages and culture, qualitative research, and education.
Dr Vivien Zhou is a Lecturer in Intercultural Communication and Deputy Programme Leader for MSc Intercultural Business Communication. She leads postgraduate modules in intercultural communication and intercultural competence and teaches undergraduate modules in similar subjects, including two modules with a focus on Mandarin Chinese (for beginners).
Dr Zhou's research interests are broadly summarised as: thematically - intercultural communication (in education, the workplace, and the wider community), dialogue in interpersonal communication, cultural identity, the liminality of transitional experiences; methodologically - qualitative research, with a particular interest in narrative inquiry and researching multilingually.
Requirements
Entry Requirements
Entry requirements
Postgraduate
Students will be eligible to apply if they have gained a Bachelor degree with C+, GPA of 2.5/4.0 or Good or better
Career
You could also progress to further academic study on a higher research degree.
Careers for those having studied the MSc in Intercultural Business Communication often go into Marketing or Human Resources related areas such as:
- International Officer
- Human Resource Management
- Global Marketing
Fee Information
Tuition Fee
GBP 17,090How to Apply
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- MSc Applied Criminology and Forensic Psychology
- MSc Data Science
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- MA Creative Writing
- MA Motion Graphics
- MFA Advanced Film Practice
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Intercultural Business Communication
Edinburgh Napier University
United Kingdom,
Edinburgh
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