Intercultural communications as academic discipline: content-related and sociocultural aspects

Abstract

The article deals with the issue of intercultural communications (ICC) as an academic discipline. The authors stress its significance in the current economical, political, social and cultural contexts. The research is focused on the content-related and sociocultural aspects of ICC. The methods of this research are comparative analysis method used for comparing some didactical approaches to teaching intercultural communications as well as problem-oriented analysis for developing pedagogical activities in the frame of this discipline. As stated, content of ICC is influenced by a certain training program - philological, economical, engineering-technical etc. However, content of the academic course is needed to be related with the external sociocultural context, actual demands of society and government for validating ICC as a substantive much-needed discipline.