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Stellenbosch University

Postgraduate Diploma in Intercultural Communication

The Postgraduate Diploma in Intercultural Communication in Communication and Media is offered by Stellenbosch University.

Program Length: 1 YEAR.

Postgraduate Diploma in Intercultural Communication offered by the Stellenbosch University at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

The programme focuses on linguistic aspects of intercultural communication. Specific attention is given to the nature and properties of language and linguistic communication: the nature and properties of intercultural linguistic communication including linguistically relevant aspects of culture; pragmatic and sociolinguistic aspects of intercultural communication; and the linguistic 'mechanics' of intercultural communication, including the factors that play a role in successful or failed communication. You take four compulsory modules of one term each.

Compulsory modules

Linguistic Communication (30)
Intercultural (Linguistic) (30)
Communication (30)
Pragmatic and Sociolinguistic Aspects (30)
Linguistic 'Mechanics’ (30)