autumn 2016
REI-3501 Graduate Field Course: Northern Tourism in Practice - 10 ECTS
Course content
In the course, students will plan, conduct and report on a project where students and teachers gather in a tourist destination in the north. Knowledge will be applied through seminars, fieldwork, presentations to stakeholders and reporting in ways that further thesis work and tourism research in general.Objectives of the course
Knowledge:
Tourism situation at the chosen destination, including the historical development of tourism there and its cultural, industrial, social, political and natural implications.
The stakeholders and networks engaged in tourism development in the north and their role for future prospects.
Skills:
Identifying research themes relevant and data needs and potentials for tourism research in the chosen area.
Designing and conducting small-scale research project.
Conducting information and data collecting relevant to the topics of the course and the chosen destination.
Assessing the tourist experience potential of the natural and cultural resources of an area.
General competence
Critically reflection on research ethics in the north.
Presenting and discussing study and case material in field seminars.
Cooperating and networking with international students in the fiel.
Reporting results of a research project.
Error rendering component
- About the course
- Campus: Alta |
- ECTS: 10
- Course code: REI-3501
- Responsible unit
- Institutt for reiseliv og nordlige studier