The purpose of the discipline is the formation and development of students' competencies in building, modelling, monitoring and regulating intercultural mediation with their ability and willingness to take corrective actions based on their knowledge and skills in the spheres of cultural differences, principles of cultural dialogue, factors and conditions of intercultural dialogue efficiency, intercultural ethics, sensitivity, trust, empathy, and tolerance.

1. Students are expected to gain a deeper understanding of cultures by looking at the way they differ along a small number of common dimensions - approaches to risk, to authority, to the individual, to time, etc.

2. Students will learn how to avoid simplifications - clichés, stereotypes and labels - that are unhelpful and can be harmful.

3. Students will acquire theoretical knowledge and practical skills in applied ethics, ethical thinking and ethical behaviour as mediation.