This course aims to develop students' awareness and understanding of communication practices in an international and culturally complex professional context. Students will learn major concepts, theories and issues related to intercultural communication in a variety of contexts. Topics include: problems in cross- group communication, communication and identity, negotiation patterns in different groups, different domains of culture, social group, discourses and communities of practice, intra-Asian and intra- Chinese communicative differences. The course will prepare students to meet different issues related to intercultural communication in the real world.