Geog. 096/Anth. 096
Travel Worlds
Spring 2002
Wednesday 6-9PM
Lafayette 200 |
Dr. Chuck de Burlo
Geography Dept.
656-3060
cdeburlo@zoo.uvm.edu |
Travel Worlds: A Geography of International Tourism
Travel Worlds is a course in critical social science about
international tourism. It is taught through a multidisciplinary approach
to tourism from cultural geography, ethnography, sociology, political ecology,
genders studies and cultural studies. These approaches inform a critical
cultural -- political perspective on tourism. Travel Worlds, renounces
normative views of travel and tourism which limit tourism to the structural
frames of typologies, dimensions, institutions, and impacts. Instead, Travel
Worlds approaches tourism as a dynamic site of cultural production in which
new discourses and practices of power are enacted and contested.
Students must come to this course ready to examine deeply and
thoughtfully their received ideas about tourism. We wish to go to the cutting
edge of the field and explore new ways of thinking about international
tourism. A primary focus of the course is “new tourism” in the Third World,
and the political economy of international tourism. Let’s have fun and
ask some really subversive questions about “ecotourism,” “sustainability,”
“development.”
Required Texts
Desmond, Jane C. (1999) Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from
Waikiki to Sea World. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Mowforth, Martin and Ian Munt (1998) Tourism and Sustainability:
new tourism in the Third World. New York: Routledge.
Ortner, Sherry B. (1999) Life and Death on Mt. Everst: Sherpas and
Himalayan Mountaineering.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Internet Resources: The following Internet sites will be used
for both required readings and assignments.
Rethinking Tourism Project [RTP]: http://www.rethinkingtourism.org/
Third World Network: http://www.twnside.org.sg/
Tourism Concern: http://www.tourismconcern.org.uk/
Equations: http://www.equitabletourism.rog/
The International Ecotourism Society [TIES]:
http://www.ecotourism.org/
UNEP United Nations Environment Program:
http://uneptie.org/pc/tourism
World Tourism Organization: http://www.world-tourism.org/
Student Responsibilities
1) Students are responsible for all of the readings, assignments, papers,
class material, videos, guest speaker talks, and all other course material.
2) Students are also required to attend all classes—no exceptions.
Class meets but once each week. There is no excuse for missing class. Your
participation is an important part of your final grade.
3) Assignments, papers, and reports must be in on time. Lateness costs
points.
4) We often work in groups, so team participation is a must.
5) Active participation in class discussions and activities is a significant
aspect of this course. We need to all be involved. This energy will make
the class more of a learning experience.
6) Students are expected to be responsible for their work—this is not
a lecture format class. The instructor is the facilitator, not the lecturer.
A Note About Videos
This class uses several videos. These audio-visuals are selected for
analysis, not for illustration. Sure, they are fun, and they are meant
to provide another media for learning. The learning is in seeing them critically—that
is, analytically.
You must take good, thorough notes on videos to get the most out of
them.
Course Requirements
Assignments: You will receive 5 assignments during the semester. Each
will be due at the following class from that in which it was assigned.
This gives you one week to complete each assignment. No lateness! Some
require library research, others web-based research.
Participation: All students are expected to be active participants
in each and every class. This means being prepared with readings and assignments.
Always be prepared, always. You should be ready at any time to give an
analysis of any material due for the class.
Journal Report. Bailey-Howe Library periodicals collection contains
a wide variety of scholarly journals that regularly feature articles on
international tourism. Each student will research, read and present an
oral and written report on one scholarly article on tourism. The report
is not a summary of the article—it is an analysis, or critical review.
A set of guidelines for research and preparing your report will be posted
on the course web page.
We will have a library research instruction class
on researching tourism.
Final Exam: This is a cumulative exam, covering the entire course
and all materials, including guest speakers and videos. It is given at
the last class (as dictated by CE).
196 level additional requirements: For students taking this course at
the 196 level, all the above requirements apply. Since it is a 100-level
course, there is an additional major requirement.
Project: A major semester project is required. TBA.
096 Evaluation
196 Evaluation
Assignments
40%
Assignments
30%
Participation
20%
Participation
20%
Journal article review 25%
Journal article 15%
Final exam
15%
Final exam
15%
Project
20%
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