Relevant trends in design of the courses in intercultural communication for students of the management department
The article is devoted to one of the relevant issues of modern professional pedagogy - that is the development of intercultural competence of a future specialist, in particular, the material considers the fundamental elements of professional multicultural training of a future manager; spheres of intercultural communication of specialists of this area are relevantly highlighted. The authors analyze the current situation in the existing large non-linguistic universities of our country and determine the basic requirements of the present time for the competence of the manager; clarify the concept of intercultural competence.The article also provides some evidence for the status of a foreign language in the development of intercultural competence of the student. The article also uses the principles of developing courses for intercultural communication for future managers, enveloping the principles of personality-activity orientation, communicative orientation, professional orientation, the principle of multiculturalism, integration and the principle of relative openness. The principles are based on the main vectors of developing courses on intercultural communication for students of management departments. They are the use of four-dimensional models of the educational process, the analysis of the educational needs of students, teachers and employers, as well as the use of the pyramid of academic benefit. Particular emphasis is placed on the need for practical orientation in designing the courses on intercultural communication.