International/Intercultural Training and Development

Course Choices:

Training and Development Professionals are involved in a wide variety of activities including analyzing training workforce needs, planning workshops, preparing instruction technology, designing and facilitating workshops and seminars, and implementing organizational change strategies. There are courses throughout ICS and the university that are particularly effective in preparing to be involved in these activities. Below we create a sample map of courses that can be taken.

ICS Choices:

The following are courses that will be particularly recognized by the Training and Development Profession as valuable in your education. Consider taking these courses as you put together Major Academic Plan (MAP).

ANTH 105 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

COMM 110 Intercultural Communication

ICS 251 Introduction to Cultural Theory

COMM 252 Group Dynamics

COMM 280 Communication, Culture and Gender

COMM 353 Organizational Communication

COMM 360 Communication Theory

ANTH 322 Ethnographic Skills

ANTH 447 Applied and Developmental Anthropology

WHC 425 Performance Studies

Electives Courses:

A minor in Instructional Design and Technology is an excellent way to add value to your ICS degree that will be recognized by the T&D profession.

IDD 302 Instructional Media Development

IDD 315 Principles of Instructional Design

IDD 347 Learning Development Techniques

IDD 415 Advanced E-learning Development Techniques

Professional Associations:

American Society for Training and Development

ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) is  the world's largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals. ASTD's 70,000 members and associates come from more than 100 countries and thousands of organizations--multinational corporations, medium-sized and small businesses, government, academia, consulting firms, and product and service suppliers.

Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research

The Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research in the United States of America (SIETAR-USA) is a professional membership organization for those who are concerned with the challenges and rewards of intercultural relations. Our members work within many environments and professions - business and industry, consulting, training, K-12 and higher education, counseling, all aspects of the media and arts, to name a few. SIETAR-USA members bring a vast array of experience and perspectives to the field of intercultural relations, both in the USA and around the world.

SIETAR-USA is a point of connection for people from many cultural and professional backgrounds who explore differences on many levels; engage in cutting edge research related to cultural dimensions of interactions between and among individuals, organizations and political entities; continually search for and provide avenues to effective relations across cultures; and work with students and others to expand worldviews and build skills for successful interactions in intercultural arenas. These activities take place in multicultural or cross-cultural situations, within national borders or around the world.

SIETAR Links

·          SIETAR International

·          Young SIETAR

North America

·          SIETAR Austin, Texas, USA

·          SIETAR Houston, Texas, USA

·          SIETAR Metro New York, USA

·          SIETAR DC, USA

·          SIETAR Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Europe

·          SIETAR Europa

·          SIETAR Austria

·          SIETAR Deutschland e.V.

·          SIETAR France

·          SIETAR Nederland

·          SIETAR Portugal

·          SIETAR UK

Asia

·          SIETAR Japan

Internships :

Jobs:

Job Bank for Training and Development provided by ASTD