Program content Excellence Program TSB

Title: Intercultural Skills: Theory and Practice

Teacher: Dr. M. Bender

Keywords:

• What influences intercultural communication effectiveness? Learn about common mistakes and current standards in the field
• Learn how to communicate, moderate sessions, and present material in Video Conferences with our partner course in Lima, Peru
• Acquire hands-on experience in designing and participating in intercultural training modules (assimilators, role-playing games)
• Evaluate the business case of a multinational company through the application of cross-cultural psychological theory and methods
• Write an evidence-based, combined emic/etic report on a topic of your choice. 

Title: Organization in an inter-connected world: Bright and dark sides of organizational collaboration

Teacher: Maksim Sitnikov

Keywords

• Describe and explain the concept of social capital.
• Know the basic concepts in social networks analysis and apply fundamental notations used to study network structures.
• Describe, explain, and critically evaluate the antecedents and consequences of relationships and networks within and between organizations.
• Apply core theoretical ideas about networks to today’s organizational, societal, and environmental issues.

Title: Social and biological underpinnings of emotion

Teacher: Prof. dr. W.J Kop

Key words:

• How and why do individuals differ in their emotional responses?
• How do we respond when meaning frameworks are violated? How do emotions develop across the lifespan?
• Emotions from a social perspective (e.g., social stress, support, and selection patterns)
• Hormonal and psychophysiological underpinnings of emotions.

Title: Values in Europe

Teacher: Dr. T. Reeskens

Keywords:

• Are younger cohorts more environmentalist than older cohorts, and if so, why?
• What explains that Norwegians are more attached to Europe than Italians?
• Are people in countries with many migrants more opposed to migration, and what can explain this?
• What is the relationship between national wealth and happiness?