Spring 2021  |  GEOG 3388 Section 001: Going Places: Geographies of Travel and Tourism (52364)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option No Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Global flows of tourism from perspective of debates about consumption, development, identity, and the environment. Close reading, field trips, discussion of films, research paper.
Class Description:
One of the largest industries, tourism reveals how rapidly the world is changing. Tourism always entails an exotic sense of place, and it follows regional differences and inequalities. This course understands tourism in relation to other kinds of mobility, like commuting, shopping, pilgrimage, colonialism, migration, and even space travel. As the negative environmental and social impacts of tourism have become obvious, significant demands have emerged on its practices and policies. Investigating the landscapes and economies of cars, planes, beaches, parks, malls, and museums, we come to appreciate the unique challenges tourism poses for global society and the planet. To gain a geographical understanding of mobility we engage a range of skills: a close reading of a comic book; a museum field trip; online discussions; analyzing maps and graphs; interpreting souvenirs and personal anecdotes. On the way we visit places like Athens, the Australian outback, Mecca, Costa Rica, and the Congo. Our final destination is an informed and critical ethics of travel.
Grading:
20% Final Exam
30% Reports/Papers
25% Reflection Papers
10% In-class Presentations
15% Class Participation Other Grading Information: Reflection papers = short weekly reading responses on Moodle. Class participation includes verbal report on Moodle reading responses.
Exam Format:
Essay questions on a case not dealt with in class
Class Format:
40% Lecture
10% Film/Video
20% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations
10% Field Trips
Workload:
30 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term Other Workload: Weekly reading report on Moodle.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52364/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
29 April 2014

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