Two Assignments That Integrate Cross Cultural and Social Issues (Focus on Intercultural Communication‪)‬

TO PREPARE STUDENTS for their roles as citizens of the world, business communication instructors should include socially conscious assignments that investigate cultural differences. They need to do this while still not turning the business communication course into a political science or sociology class. A project on multinational corporations in developing countries and service learning activities are two ways to achieve this goal. Both assignments are described in this column. The Context of Global Social Justice