Intercultural communication is increasingly an integral part of everyday professional life. This course responds to this emerging social reality by aiming to help professionals develop knowledge and skills to observe, interact with, speak and listen to, interpret, analyze, read, and write about people with different cultural backgrounds. To this end, the course requires each student to conduct a mini-ethnographic project in the context of her/his everyday professional life. This project, in turn, will be placed in critical dialogue with some of the basic questions of intercultural communication, such as: (1) what is culture? (2) what is communication? (3) In what ways do people who do not share the same rules (e.g., a "native" and a "foreigner," an adult and a child, a man and a woman, etc.) communicate? In considering these and other questions, we critically examine how an established linear stage model of intercultural communication, based on the notion of the "mastery of rules," capture and/or fail to capture complexities of intercultural communication. In so doing, we will also explore intercultural competence as "the ability to get along with other players of a language-game, a game played without referees" (to borrow from American philosopher Richard Rorty's words), while assessing merits and demerits of such a conceptualization in reference to student projects.