"What's Up With Culture?" is an interactive, online learning tool. Working through the website will give you insight into dimensions of culture that will help you learn and solve problems while on your internship. Each module of the website is designed to stand alone as well as support the full site, so you do not need to read all modules to understand any one of them.

"What's Up With Culture?" complements the information you receive in the IE3 Global Internships Handbook and at orientation. The outline below gives you an overview of the Pre-Departure Module. While the whole site is very informative, specific concepts and activities that are recomended reading for your internship are bolded in red.

MODULE 1 - What to Know Before You Go
1.1 If you are Going Abroad Soon...
1.2 Culture: The Hidden Dimension
1.2.1 The Iceberg
1.2.2 Linking Values to Behavior
1.2.3 More on Culture: Defined and Refined
1.3 Culture: Yours, Ours, and Theirs!
1.3.1 Cultural Distinctions: Universal, Cultural Personal
1.3.2 In the Mind of the Beholder
1.3.3 Sharing the Rewards
1.3.4 Individualist or Collectivist?
1.3.5 Individualist or Collectivist: Score Yourself!
1.4 Whose Fault? Why Values Matter
1.4.1 An Accident
1.4.2 Personal and Societal Obligations
1.4.3 Universalist or Particularist: Score Yourself!
1.4.4 Your Time or My Time
1.4.5 The Concept of Time
1.4.6 Context of Cultures: High and Low
1.5 Packing Up!
1.5.1 The Things We Say
1.5.2 US- American Values
1.5.3 Cultural Categories Compared
1.5.4 Sources of US- American Culture
1.6 Communication Across Cultures, What are They Trying to Say?
1.6.1 the Body Speaks
1.6.2 Public and Private Space
1.6.3 Communication Styles
1.6.4 Intensity Factors
1.7 Surprises and Shocks
1.7.1 Common Reactions
1.7.2 The Four Levels of Cultural Awareness
1.7.3 Ten Transition Tips

Go to the What's Up With Culture? site