FACTSHEET MASTER’S PROGRAMME
I N T E RC U L T URA L C O MM U N I CA T I ON
“Diversity is our core business” Dear students,
The beginning of your new MA programme is an exciting moment. The students in this programme come from different academic backgrounds: some of you have degrees in one of the European languages, others have a Bachelor’s degree in cultural or communication studies. Many of you are well travelled and have been all over the world as tourists, as volunteers or paid workers, as exchange students during secondary school or with an Erasmus programme. Students in this programme are accustomed to interacting in different cultures and to living and thriving in multiple cultures. These experiences that you and your classmates bring to programme will provide us with a shared starting point for studying language practices across cultures. Since its inception by our retiring Professor in Intercultural Communication, Jan D. ten Thije, the programme’s motto has been ‘Diversity is our core business.’ Your richly varied backgrounds and your experiences are key to the success of our MA programme. We encourage you to take advantage of the wide range of expertise of your teachers, and also to build strong networks with your fellow students this academic year so you can continue to support and interact with each other in other contexts in the future. Many of our alumni from previous years still maintain close contact with each other. This factsheet contains information to help you during your study. It provides a quick overview of the programme, a brief introduction to your teachers, and helpful links to practical information on deadlines, rules, and people who help you in practical matters. The year passes very quickly, so be sure to take the time to make something beautiful out of it!
PROF. DR. CHRISTOPHER
JENK
has worked in six distinct geopolitical regions: the United States, England, South Korea, Hong Kong, Denmark, and now the Netherlands. He specialises in the study of language in society and is particularly interested in the political and cultural implications of the global spread of English. His research interests include online communication, intercultural encounters, political discourse, and identity construction. Christopher is particularly interested in how spoken and written discourse performs a range of communicative actions (e.g., trolling and arguing) and indexes a number of social phenomena (e.g., nationalism and race).
Christopher Jenks Master’s coordinator Intercultural Communication
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