Intercultural Relations and Diversity Competence

Construction, Management, and Engineering projects are complex, innovative, multi-disciplinary, and intercultural projects developed in a dynamic environment and require engineers to competently combine engineering and organisation skills to achieve better the project expected results.

This course helps you to look at intercultural relations as a communication process between people that work together and naturally belong to multiple social groups. The course helps to develop a diversity competence to address communication differences before and after they occur.

Through role-playing games, class discussions, and a group essay, the students engage with the theory, reflect on their experience, and explore the role of inter and intra-cultural relations to develop a diversity competence that they can later apply in their professional practice.