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This lecture expands your abilities in cultural studies by focusing on three units: 1- the meaning of culture and different barriers to inter-cultural communication. 2- religion and cultural diversity 3- colonialism and racism.

By the end of this lecture, students should: 1 • Be able to differentiate between Intercultural and Multicultural approaches to diversity. • Have a good grap of the meaning of culture and society and state the main components of culture • Define Inter-cultural Communication Pedagogy • Have a good understatnding of the term nationalism and how it represents a barrier to inter-cultural communication 2 • State the main differences between religions . Explain how can religion be a barrier to inter-cultural communication. . Differentiate between Fundamentalism and Sectarianism. 3 . know the relation between colonialism and racism . Define colonialism and race . Understand the idea of race in the British Empire.