Module Title

Tourism and Events: Society, Culture and the Visitor Experience代写

Module Code

TL3140

CREDIT

VALUE

20 credits

date OF

Approval

June 2011

VERSION NUMBER

One

SCHOOL

Sport, Tourism and The Outdoors

PARTNER INSTITUTION

Co-requisites

Pre-requisites

Excluded Combinations

The purpose of this module is to allow the student an opportunity to critically examine key sociological and anthropological underpinnings of tourism, events, and the leisure experience.

Thus, the aim is for the student to better understand the experiential function, role, and consequences of tourism and events. Particularly, the module adopts a multidisciplinary approach and critically explores tourism, events, and leisure interrelationships with the cultural condition of society.

The module content will draw upon current thinking and research, and will incorporate up-to-date industry trends and examples and thus is subject to change without notification. However, as an indicative guide the list below provides for suggested topic areas:

• Festivals, Carnivals & Special Events within Society: An Introduction
• Feasts & Festivals: A Chronological Development from the Medieval to (Post)Modernity
• Event Tourism and Contemporary Society: Influences & Relationships
• Festival Consumption & Unruly Behaviour – ‘Its’ my party and I’ll cry if I want to’
• Production of Party: The Carnival and Carnivalesque
• Festivals & Events in the Society of the Spectacle: Cultural Heritage & Urban Revitalization
• A Gregarious Crowd – Consuming the Festival & Carnival Product
• Festivals and Identity: Symbols of Fun, Celebration & Ritual
• Journeys of Expression: Religion, Pilgrimage & Festivity
• Sex in the City: The Meaning of Gay & Lesbian Festivals
• Digging up the Dead – Honouring the Deceased: Dark Festivals & Darker Traditions
• Selling Out? Festivals, Special Events & the Economics of Experience
• From the Rural Idyll to Rural Rationality: Countryside Festivals and Social Class
• A View for All – Media Dynamics &  Influences upon Festivals & Special Events
• Festivals, Political Ideology and the State
• Festivals, The Collective Self & Communitarian Living
• Sport Mega Events in the Growth of Global Culture
• Festivity & Social Change
• Whose History? The Nature of Festivity Interpretation & Authenticity

·         Travel & Tourism in Post Modern Times

·         Disney as Heritage?

·         Tourism, Liminality & Spirituality

·         Tourism, Post-Colonialism & Stereo-Types: Tahiti

·         Tourism, Sex & Sex Tourism

·         Literary Tourism

·         Image & Tourism

·         The Invention of The Beach

·         Sense of Place & Tourism

·         Consuming ‘Dark Leisure’: Sex, Death and Ontological Meanings of the Taboo

·         The “Psychologization” of Leisure

·         Motives in Leisure tourism and events

·         Flow and the psychology of Happiness.

·         Leisure benefits and the quality of life.

·         Social Psychology in Leisure tourism and events

·         Playing with Identities

·         Personality in Leisure, tourism and events

·         Managing the customer experience.  

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module a student will be able to:

1.

Demonstrate a critical multidisciplinary understanding of contemporary themes, issues and consequences of tourism and events within local, national, and international visitor economies.

2.

Critically evaluate fundamental interrelationships of tourism, events and the leisure experience with the cultural condition of society

3.

Justify a range of appropriate managerial responses to a range of socio-cultural, environmental and political dilemmas within tourism, event, and leisure domains.

Number of Assessments

Form of Assessment

% weighting

Size of Assessment/Duration/

Word count (indicative only)

Category of assessment

Learning Outcomes being assessed

1

Essay

60%

2,500

Formative

1,2,3

2

Examination (2 hour)

40%

1,500 (Two questions from a choice of six)

Summative

1,2,3

Students are required to attempt ALL pieces of assessment, with the overall mark being averaged. Module pass grade is an aggregate mark of 40%  

Learning, teaching AND ASSESSMENT Strategy 

• The module will be delivered on-campus
• The student will attend a weekly lecture & seminar
• Teaching will be research informed and make use of guest speakers as appropriate
• Lecture presentations will be available via the UCLan intranet and will direct students towards recommended reading as appropriate. 
• Seminars will be student-centric and primarily consist of exercises and/or critical discussions that underpin and supplement knowledge acquired in the lectures.
• An appropriate number of academic tutorials will be incorporated into the scheme of work in order to offer bespoke guidance and support to individual students.
• A dedicated social media site for this module will be established to allow the student an opportunity to interact with peers, and to share academic resources.

SCHEDULED LEARNING AND TEACHING ACTIVITY

Defined as any activity that a student has to attend or undertake. (See guidance notes for examples)

Scheduled learning and teaching activity for level 4 and 5 modules should normally meet the University’s specified average of 60 hours of scheduled learning hours per 20 credit module (based on delivery over a 30 week academic year). 

Level 6 modules should normally be within the University’s accepted range of between 30 and 60 hours of scheduled learning hours per 20 credit module. 

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No of hours

Lectures

24

Seminars

24

Academic Tutorials

6

Exam Revision Sessions

6

TOTAL SCHEDULED LEARNING HOURS

60

 GUIDED INDEPENDENT STUDY

Directed Reading – essential background reading as outlined in lectures

30

Further Reading / Research – assessment related reading & other further reading from a wide range of academic & non-academic sources

30

Seminar activities – reading & preparation for in class exercises

30

Assessment Preparation

30

Social Media

20

TOTAL GUIDED INDEPENDENT STUDY HOURS

140

TOTAL STUDENT LEARNING HOURS 

These must add up to 200 hours per 20 credits

200