ABSTRACT
Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence is an elective, junior-year course offered to the students at the English department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Nis, Serbia. Students taking the course are studying towards a BA in English, the language, literature, and language teaching. The course gradually develops intercultural competence, first by giving students theoretical tools with which to approach phenomena and then by providing time and material to which these theoretical concerns might be applied. The course is assessed continuously with several direct-evidence assessment tools based on embedded class assignments designed to ascertain students' intercultural competence development, and students can amass a maximum of 100 points with 70 needed to pass. Assessment remains an important aspect, and group projects might substitute individual presentations, with students exploring particular issues from multiple perspectives, thus bringing greater depth to the analysis through cooperative learning endeavours.
