Agenda
The 2012 TELECOM INSTITUTE for INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION & COMPETENCE
delivered by the TELECOM Lille 1 Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies
and in cooperation with the Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig University of Applied Sciences
Success abroad, managing international teams, running technical projects in global telecommunications and participating effectively in international projects with diverse team members all require solid language and interpersonal skills, and intercultural competency.
The Language and Intercultural Studies Department of TELECOM Lille 1 and its partner institution the Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig University of Applied Sciences recognise the importance of professional training to develop all these abilities while placing special emphasis on preparing students to take on the complex tasks of international assignments -- at home or abroad -- with efficiency and respect for all members of the team, and for its diversity.
In our schools, students are trained in English, German and Spanish languages and they all complete an international work placement prior to graduation. Many students also choose to complete part of their 5- year engineering programme studying abroad.
For the past decade, the HfTL and TELECOM Lille 1 have offered their students the opportunity to receive essential intercultural training from TELECOM Lille’s team of five full-time, internationally certified intercultural professors who have been quietly leading the field nationally in terms designing and delivering intercultural curriculum for engineering students.
For years we have been preparing our graduates, tomorrow’s leaders of international ICT teams and projects, to become top-flight international managers by providing the intercultural knowledge and skills necessary to face the specific challenges of working across cultural boundaries. The week-long intensive training seminar The Telecom Institute of Intercultural Communication and Competency (TIIC2) is the capstone learning experience of our study programme. The beginnings of this institute reach back to the original founding, in 2002 by Dean A. Hipple, of the Winter Institute of Intercultural Communication, France’s first intercultural training institute devoted solely to providing advanced intercultural training to Grande Ecoles students. Since then, the Institute has trained over 1,000 student-engineers.
After many successful years in France, TIIC2 is breaking new ground again. TIIC2 - 2012 will see the launch of its second campus in Leipzig, Germany. The newly-formed split-campus Institute will, as before, continue to bring together international experts from across the globe with over 200 telecommunications engineering students from France, Germany, Russia and Spain to study advanced, culture-specific topics with the goal of enhancing cultural selfawareness and improving the ability of each participant to interact effectively and respectfully with members of culture groups outside his or her own cultural background.
Dean A. Hipple, M.A. Intercultural Relations Founder - Coordinator of the Telecom Institute of Intercultural Communication and Competency (TIIC2), the first national Institute of Intercultural Communication and Competency for studentengineers in France and the first multi-campus intercultural institute for European student-engineers.
TIIC2 2012 Course Offerings
For 2012, TIIC2 is offering 13 separate courses options, delivered over two campuses :
LILLE
- Communicating Across Cultures: Japan, Asia and the World, A. and K. KOMISAROF
- Developing Bicultural Competence for the Professional Workplace, V. WHITE
- Working in Multicultural Teams : Basic concepts for working across cultures, S. BAYART and J. SPENCER
- Cultural Values in Contrast: Latino and North American Communication Patterns, D. SUSSMAN
- Building Your Intercultural Competency - Intercultural Effectiveness at Home and Abroad, H. JOHNSTON
LEIPZIG
- Living and Working Abroad: Professional Effectiveness and Personal Satisfaction, D. HOFFMAN and J. GREGERSEN-HERMANS
- Managing the Dark Side of Communication: Interpersonal Conflicts and Stereotypes Across Cultures, J TOMIOKA
- Sources and Consequences of Globalization of Telecommunications and Cyberspace, L. CHENNELL and K. YOHN
- What is within affects what is without: The importance of “intra-cultural” understandings for developing “intercultural” competencies, G. POOLE and B. WHITE
- Visualising Culture: Basic intercultural concepts for interpreting imagery and working across cultures, D. HIPPLE