GEOG 3388 is also offered in Spring 2025
GEOG 3388 is also offered in Spring 2024
GEOG 3388 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2025 | GEOG 3388 Section 001: Going Places: Geographies of Travel and Tourism (55001)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Are you wondering whether you will be able to travel as you did a few years ago? One of the largest industries, tourism, is in a profound crisis. This course understands tourism in relation to other kinds of mobility, like shopping, colonialism, trafficking, migration, and pilgrimage. As the negative environmental and health 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 citizenship and the planet. To gain a critical geographical understanding of mobility, we engage a range of ethical frameworks such as human rights, feminism, social justice, and utilitarianism. Our final destination is an informed and critical ethics of travel in the age of pandemics and climate change.
- 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/55001/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 29 April 2014
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