Nov 10, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25

MGT 3640 - Cultural Intelligence in Business


The course focuses on improving students cultural intelligence in business situations. The course reviews the components of cultural intelligence drive, knowledge, strategy, and action and offers strategies for increasing intercultural knowledge and competence in global, diverse business settings.

Credit Hours: 1
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Diversity and Practice
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to articulate insights about one’s own cultural intelligence.
  • Students will be able to explain how to function effectively in culturally diverse settings with empathy and openness.
  • Students will be able to describe how cultures are similar and different in terms of business practices, interpersonal relations, and sociolinguistic norms.
  • Students will be able to interpret culturally diverse experiences in business without making judgments about others.
  • Students will be to describe how to adapt verbal and nonverbal behaviors appropriately for intercultural business situations.


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