autumn 2018
REI-3010 Advances in Tourism Theory - 10 ECTS

Application deadline

Applicants from Nordic countries: 1 June for the autumn semester and

Exchange students and Fulbright students: 15 April for the autumn semester.


Type of course

Can be taken as a single course

Admission requirements

Applicants must have a Bachelor´s Degree (180 ECTS), or an equivalent qualification, with a minimum of 80 ECTS within tourism, out-door recreation, event studies, marketing and communication, social sciences, humanities or education.   All applicants must document a minimum grade of C from the undergraduate degree. As a minimum applicants need to have a Higher Education Entrance Qualification from their home countries and certified language requirements in English. For students from non-English speaking countries, an English language test is usually also required.

Application code: 9371 (nordic applicants).


Course content

This course gives theoretical perspectives on tourism. It introduces tourism as a modern and late modern cultural phenomenon based on the tourist gaze, authenticity and the tourist experience, as well as being involved in social and cultural change. This course thus provides knowledge of social science perspectives on tourism. One focus is on how tourism is shaped and reshaped by social, cultural, spatial, and temporal structures such as gender relations.

Objectives of the course

Knowledge

- knowledge of seminal and contemporary tourism theory from social science perspectives 

- knowledge of theories concerning the differences of tradition and modernity

- knowledge of theories on authenticity in modern societies

- knowledge of the tourist experience as sites for performances

- knowledge of the tourist experience from a gendered perspective

 

Skills

- use theoretical perspectives to understand tourism as a cultural phenomenon

- apply critical thinking on tradition and modernity on tourism as a phenomenon

- apply theories on authenticity on motivation and represerntations in tourism

- use theories to understand the tourist experience as cultural, social, spatial and temporal

- ability to critically discuss gender issues in the tourist experience

 

General competence

- the capacity to convey knowledge of tourism to academic peers and the public

- ability to critically reflect on the representation of otherness in tourism

- ability to analyse tourism motivation and representations in tourism

- carry out independent analyses of the tourist experience

- ability to critically reflect on the tourist experience


Language of instruction and examination

English

Teaching methods

Teaching takes place in seminars with lectures, student presentations and group work. The students discuss the literature, give oral presentations and partake in discussions.

Assessment

The student must submit an written assignment and have 70% attendance before he/she may sit for the exam.

Exam: Upon approval of the required work, the final assessment is a paper.


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  • About the course
  • Campus: Alta |
  • ECTS: 10
  • Course code: REI-3010
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