Week 6 Homework and Final Presentation Note

Trivia: Where was this picture taken? First to answer in the comments section gets a prize.

Since we talked about Culture Shock this week, your blog assignment is to answer these questions:

A. What do you know about culture shock? Have you ever experienced it or known anyone who has? How do you think you personally would deal with culture shock?

B. What advice would you give to a friend suffering from culture shock?

C. What personality traits do you think could help prevent culture shock?

D. What variables might make culture shock more or less severe?

Like before, please don't just list the questions and the answers, but try to combine your responses into a coherent paragraph or two. If you have any questions, please tell me.

Also, your final presentation will be during our last class (September 3rd). I'll give you some suggested topics today so you can think a bit about what you'd like to do. You can also tell me if you have a different presentation idea related to culture and/or communication. You can work alone or in a group, as long as your presentation follows the guidelines (it must involve the class in some way, for example; you all did a good job on your first presentation with this aspect). 

TWO SUGGESTED TOPICS:

A. Role-play a conflict based on cultural values. Then, lead a class discussion that interprets the situation and comes up with potential solutions.

B. Through an interactive demonstration of some sort, highlight your own values (whether they’re personal, cultural, or universal) and/or have your classmates demonstrate their values.

If you have a good reason for wanting to do your presentation this coming weekend (August 27th), you can send me a message and we can possibly work out something. Like I said in class, though, I'd prefer to do all the presentations in our final class, so that it won't seem like we're constantly doing presentations.

That's it for now. Have a good week, and see you on Saturday!