EV2201 - Tourism and the Environment

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:

The nature of the environment, ecological processes; interaction between natural environments and tourism; analysis of tourism impacts both natural and social.

Learning Outcomes

• practical and theoretical aspects of environmental description;
• to help develop a critical appreciation of environmental factors important to tourism development and the social and biophysical impacts of tourism;
• understanding of the natural processes in the environment and the conventions of environmental scientists in describing and analysing nature.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

TG2201 and T02000 and TO2000

Availabilities
, , Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Peter Valentine
Lecturers:	gecld, Assoc. Professor Peter Valentine, Professor Alastair Birtles.
Contact hours:	26 hours 24 hours 2 days
Assessment:	(50%); (15%); (35%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.