GEPL344 Leisure, Recreation and Tourism

Updated: 21 December 2011

Credit Points	6
Offering	Not offered in 2012
Intensive School(s)	None
Supervised Exam	There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites	12cp or candidature in a postgraduate award
Co-requisites	None
Restrictions	GEAR343 or GEAR443 or GEPL243 or GEPL343 or GEPL444 or GEPL544
Notes	None
Combined Units	GEPL544 - Leisure, Recreation and Tourism
Coordinator(s)	Barbara Rugendyke (brugendy@une.edu.au)
Unit Description	The unit provides understanding of the changing nature of leisure, recreation and tourism in both advanced economies and developing nations, paying particular attention to the environmental, social, cultural and economic costs and benefits of leisure, recreation and tourism. The problems of planning effectively for leisure, recreation and tourism are explored in relation to rural and regional development, ecotourism, cultural tourism and heritage tourism.
Materials	Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Disclaimer	Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Assessment

Assessment information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Learning Outcomes (LO)

Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:

develop an appreciation of the importance of leisure, recreation and tourism in contemporary society;
develop an understanding of the various approaches used in social science for the study of leisure, recreation and tourism;
develop an understanding of the extent of leisure, recreation and tourism activity in present day Australia;
develop an understanding of the nature of Aboriginal and Heritage Tourism; and
develop an understanding of the role that ecotourism and tourism generally can play in developing nations.

Graduate Attributes (GA)

	Attribute	Taught	Assessed	Practised
1	Knowledge of a Discipline The study of movements of people as tourists is geographical. The centrality of geography in enabling understanding tourism is taught and assessed in this unit.
2	Communication Skills Assessment is entirely by written work including an individual research report requiring effective communication.
3	Global Perspectives The unit looks at cultural tourism both in Australia and in developing nations and at global changes in the nature of leisure, recreation and tourism. Cultural impacts are covered in the assessment tasks.
4	Information Literacy Students are introduced to internet/library sources of statistics relating to leisure, recreation and tourism. These sources are used in the preparation of the assignment.
5	Life-Long Learning The changing nature of leisure, recreation and tourism is emphasised in the unit so that students appreciate the need to monitor such changes in the future. There is a good deal of reflection on what the future might be like.
6	Problem Solving The first assignment (an individual research report based on a case study) examines how the problem of promoting a tourist development is overcome.
7	Social Responsibility Much emphasis is placed on the costs as well as the benefits of leisure, recreation and tourism and on the fact that there are 'winners' and 'losers' in all development. The equity and social responsibility aspects of development are explored in the assessments.

Course and Unit Catalogue 2012