Intercultural communication deals with the encounter experiences of people from different sociocultural and economic groups and the processes of meaning transmission and meaning production. Today, intercultural encounter experiences have increased rapidly in the last 30 years as people move between countries and communicate with individuals and groups from different cultures for reasons such as education, corporate organizations, diplomatic negotiations, touristic trips, political and economic migration. It should also be remembered that the dimensions of intercultural encounters have once again grown exponentially with the new media and communication environment enabled by technological possibilities.
Intercultural communication is not a subject that is defined and discussed only within national borders. Since the 1980s, which is marked as the era of identity turn, intercultural communication has not only been a cross-country issue, but has also become a sub-discipline that encompasses the encounter of people of different religions, ethnicities, classes, regions and genders within a country.
The communication situations that arise from the encounters of cultures today should be seen as a theoretical query as well as practical events and phenomena. The language, meaning, image and action repertoires of the cultural patterns that interact in each particular encounter should be traceable both theoretically and descriptively. The Department of Intercultural Communication, acting from the view that "every interpersonal communication is also an intercultural communication", methodologically tries to trace both the categories of cultural similarities and differences in its studies.
The Department of Intercultural Communication considers the acquisition of intercultural communication competence as a contemporary question and tries to address questions in this direction with ethical and responsibility components.
Intercultural Communication, in addition to trying to understand the processes of negotiation and construction of cultural identity in the interaction environment arising from intercultural encounters, has inevitably had to deal with the political and hierarchical asymmetries that emerge in each encounter and the problems they cause. In this respect, the field is open to collaborative work and interdisciplinary interaction with different academic fields of study such as political science, international relations and communication. For this reason, the courses offered within the department are designed in parallel with other departments and divisions in the faculty. In this way, the student who chooses intercultural communication as an academic field will have the opportunity to follow not only the human and communication dimension of interculturalization, but also its artistic, linguistic and even material dimensions, and will be able to produce a theoretical study orientation from these.