Asean Culture

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to: demonstrate a critical and creative thinking in understanding the cross-culture and cross-border social issues in ASEAN region; display effective team-working skills in multi-disciplinary and multi-culture environment in ASEAN region; display leadership and management skills in multicultural working environment related to ASEAN countries’ culture.

Topics

This course provides essential information on history of the different countries of ASEAN. It exposes in-depth, knowledge on attitudes, beliefs and behaviour in different countries of ASEAN. Students will receive awareness of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. They will learn what to expect, how to behave, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships in ASEAN.

Pre-requisite : IB302 – Managing Across Culture