Tourism Encounters
2024/2025
Content, progress and pedagogy of the module
The module comprises a course in tourism encounters.
Learning objectives
Knowledge
- of theories and concepts relating to tourism encounters, taking a vantage point in social and cultural aspects of tourism
- of contemporary challenges related to tourism encounters, including challenges of social and cultural concerns involved in sustainability
- of the relationships between actors involved in tourism encounters as social and cultural interaction
- of the role of digitalization in tourism encounters.
Skills
- in identifying and critically discussing debates within the area of tourism encounters and their social and cultural role in contemporary society
- in selecting and applying relevant theories, concepts and approaches to tourism encounters in order to address and understand social and cultural aspects of tourism
- in producing critical and creative analyses of tourism encounters.
Competences
- in analysing tourism encounters
- in reflecting on tourism encounters
- in independently continuing own competency development within the area of tourism encounters.
Type of instruction
Type of instruction is described in § 17 in the curriculum.
Exam
Exams
| Name of exam | Tourism Encounters |
| Type of exam | Written exam
An internal individual written examination in: Tourism Encounters
(Møder i turisme).
The examination is a 4-day take-home assignment given by the examiner on the basis of the curriculum of the module. The assignment paper must be prepared individually and must not exceed 8 pages. The assignment paper will be evaluated by an internal examiner. |
| ECTS | 5 |
| Permitted aids | All written and all electronic aids
The use of generative AI is allowed, including for re-writing
text. |
| Assessment | 7-point grading scale |
| Type of grading | Internal examination |
| Criteria of assessment | The criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures |
Facts about the module
| Danish title | Møder i turisme |
| Module code | KATOU2212 |
| Module type | Course |
| Duration | 1 semester |
| Semester | Autumn
|
| ECTS | 5 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Empty-place Scheme | Yes |
| Location of the lecture | Campus Aalborg, Campus Copenhagen |
| Responsible for the module |
Organisation
| Study Board | Study Board of International and Cross‐Cultural Studies |
| Department | Department of Culture and Learning |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities |
