Current Issues in Tourism: Tour guiding 1.01 (2 cr)
Code: YMAT1220-3008
General information
Enrollment
01.08.2022 - 13.11.2022
Timing
14.11.2022 - 18.11.2022
Credits
1 - 2
Virtual proportion (cr)
1 op
Mode of delivery
50 % Contact teaching, 50 % Distance learning
Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Teaching languages
- English
Degree programmes
- Tourism, Culture and International Management, Master's Degree Programme
- Toursim
- Degree Programme in Tourism
Teachers
- Anna-Emilia Haapakoski
Student groups
-
YMATaine
Objective
Students will get acquainted with a selected current issue in tourism.
Content
Current Issues in Tourism is a course module covering several different possibilities to gain ECTS. Courses are either face-to-face courses at the University of Lapland (registration in Peppi) or independent online courses (registration on the course website). Assignments for different courses vary and are informed in course descriptions. Also lectures (or seminar presentations, events e.g.) are held either at the university or online. Assignment for lectures is always the same: pre-reading, attending the lecture and writing a minimum three-page-long essay based on the lecture and relevant scientific literature. Detailed essay instructions are emailed by the responsible teacher in English and in Finnish.
Different possibilities are announced via email during fall and spring.
Some events are not always directly linked to tourism, but closely related, and you can emphasize tourism in your own essay.
If the emailed information is in English, the event will be in English, if the information is in Finnish, it will be in Finnish only. Submissions of assignments can be done in either language.
Evaluation scale
Approved/Rejected
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
Fail: Performance is highly deficient or erroneous. The work may be based on misunderstandings.
Pass: Performance corresponds to the assignment, manifesting comprehension and a skill to analyse and argument..
Further information
The reponsible teacher will inform about different possibilities to gain Current Issues in Tourism via email. Detailed essay instruction will be attached in the email and also available upon request.