CCOM 7070 INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE COMMUNICATION & CULTURE

Offered at FDU's Wroxton College

Oxfordshire, England

Monday, June 7  – Saturday, June 19, 2010

CCOM 7070 International Corporate Communication and Culture is a 12-day seminar offered at Wroxton College each summer as part of the MA in Corporate and Organizational Communication. The 2009 seminar will take place from June 7th thru June 29th. Students completing the seminar receive three credits toward their degree. At Fairleigh Dickinson University, participating students are drawn from the MA in Corporate and Organizational Communication, the MBA program, and the MA in Organizational Behavior.Students from other universities and colleges may also register with permission of the course leader, Gary Radford.The seminar consists of invited speakers, case studies, site visits, and leisure trips to London, Stratford, and Oxford.

A key objective of the seminar is make students familiar with the cultural, historical, and political contexts in which international business transactions take place, from a UK and European perspective. Along with an understanding of the cultural context of communication, students are given a grounding in the theoretical context of communication study. The 2010 seminar will provide a theory component provided by UK academics which will address key differences in the ways Americans and Europeans approach the task of theorizing about communication and the implications of these differences for business.

Students will have two full-day opportunities to work with students from the MA in Corporate Communication offered by Thames Valley University (TVU), located in London. TVU students will spend one day at Wroxton participating in common sessions with FDU students. TVU will also host students for a day at their campus in London and participate in a full-day program of events and speakers organized by TVU.

Students will examine case studies conducted by UK practitioners which show how issues of culture, history, politics, and theory play out in actual corporate communication practice. This is the strongest part of the seminar. Case study sessions take a specific product and problem and work through the steps in which the problem was addressed.

Students will also have the opportunity to attend a day of seminars at the Harris-Manchester College of Oxford University. Students will be hosted by Dr. Susan Llewelyn, a Senior Fellow at Harris-Manchester College, and given a personal guided tour of her college, followed by personal guided tour of Christchurch College, perhaps the most famous of the Oxford Colleges. Students will return to Harris-Manchester for a series of speakers on topics of politics, communication, and culture. The day will end with the FDU students having dinner with the Oxford students in their Dining Hall.

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2008 SCHEDULE AND PHOTOS

Click here to see the 2008 Wroxton Schedule and a gallery of photographs of students and speakers.

Please visit the links at the left to find pertinent information about the Wroxton Campus, the 2008 program of speakers, panels, and site visits, and a description of the course assignments.

This page last updated Septemberf 23, 2009, by Gary P. Radford.