Intercultural Management and Communication

ATTENTION: This study program can no longer be chosen. For the wintersemester 2018/19, it has been substituted by the program International Business with its three specializations Intercultural Management, Responsible Business and Marketing.

A weekend concert in London, a backpacking trip with friends through France and Spain, a school exchange in the United States, three months voluntary work in India, a language course in Colombia, no wonder it seems as if I get around a bit.

Even if I wasn't a great world explorer before, one thing is crystal clear to me. The faster globalization takes over, the more important local cultures become and the more they will be networked. This may sound unusual to some but it also applies to companies and organizations. That's why I'm interested in a degree course that considers this view in terms of management theory, because tomorrow, international companies will simply be different.

To fully appreciate these changing circumstances, Karlshochschule expanded their Intercultural Management and Communication degree course of classical economic theory modules, to include events, cultural theory, corporate culture, international partnerships and intercultural competence.

As well as that, I can actually put my intercultural skills in international company projects to the test and refine them during my semester abroad and internship. At the end of my studies I will be able mediate between different cultures to generate worthwhile synergies. And that's because I haven't just been learning a new language at Karlshochschule, I have understood how to communicate in a variety of international and intercultural contexts.

Prof. Dr. Francisco Javier Montiel Alafont

<strong>Prof. Dr. Francisco Javier Montiel Alafont</strong> <br />fjmontiel@karlshochschule.de <br/> Tel. +49 721 48095 501

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Degree Program Structure

Karlshochschule opens up a whole new, exciting world with each module in the Intercultural Management and Communication study program. When I look at the module overview, I discover at the same time how the contents of my studies are logically interconnected, thereby revealing Intercultural Management and Communication to me as an overarching whole.

 

Cultural Studies

6 ECTS

Introduction to Management and its Quantitative Methods

10 ECTS

Business Environment

10 ECTS

Introduction to Scientific Research Methods

10 ECTS

English/German as a Foreign Language 1

4 ECTS

Organizational Culture

6 ECTS

Intercultural Marketing

5 ECTS

Basic Principles in Strategic Management

5 ECTS

English/German as a Foreign Language 2

4 ECTS

Area Studies

6 ECTS

Intercultural Business Communication

6 ECTS

Introductory Company Project

6 ECTS

Resources

6 ECTS

Foreign Language 2.1

6 ECTS

International Collaboration Management

6 ECTS

Intercultural Communicative Competence

6 ECTS

Advanced Company Project

6 ECTS

Managerial Accounting

6 ECTS

Foreign Language 2.2

6 ECTS

International Business Management

6 ECTS

Contemporary Society

6 ECTS

Elective

6 ECTS

Change & Innovation

6 ECTS

Elective: Language

6 ECTS

Internship

18 ECTS

Bachelor Thesis including its Defense

12 ECTS
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What's special about Karls?

Hauke Pflüger, Intercultural Management and Communication

"For me, the most interesting aspect of Karlshochschule is the variety of outlooks I am shown for each issue or culture. It really is true that the focus is on the person here. I learn to deal with human variety and see the world through different eyes. Here we never cease to enjoy discovering new things."

Annika Storck, Intercultural Management and Communication

"I am studying Intercultural Management and Communication because I am very interested in other cultures and countries. Later I would like to work abroad. It is interesting to see how people from different parts of the world "tick" and live.

And then to discover how these differences affect intercultural cooperation in everyday business life! Of course, we also learn solutions to deal with this. Learning and speaking foreign languages is great fun – whether Spanish, Chinese or French. The diverse spectrum of languages on offer here at Karlshochschule will open up a wide range of options to me later on.

I am also particularly looking forward to the fifth semester: in our degree course we have to spend this time abroad. So I'm sure I'll gain even more intercultural experience then!"