TELEVISION SCRIPT

Throughout this course, you have examined various cultures and the way your cultures influence your communication with individuals from other cultures. For this Assignment, you will integrate this new knowledge into a short television script that incorporates threecharacters from diverse cultures and subcultures who are mostly effective intercultural communicators, although one of them needs to be an ineffective intercultural communicator.

Your characters might include a European American country woman from Iowa who is a star athlete and graphic designer; an Asian city man from Los Angeles who is a rapper and also works the computer help desk; or an African-American marketing specialist from Chicago. Your characters will interact in a professional workplace setting. Once the script is written, you will write a 400 word explanation for each character explaining why each character acts the way she or he does.

This is the most important part. Your script should take account of the legitimate behaviors within cultures and not be satisfied with the stereotypes associated with them. Research in this area is essential in order to prove "legitimate cultural norms," and to support your statements. Personal knowledge and experience is not enough.

To help you create your characters, check out "Creating Characters for a Multicultural Scene" in Doc Sharing. You do not need to take every suggestion the document offers, but the information can help you start thinking about who your characters might be. Once you have created the characters, you will imaginatively put them in the scene and let them interact.