EV2201 - Tourism and the Environment
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | Sch of Earth & Environmental Sciences |
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.
| Prerequisites: | AT LEAST 12 CREDIT POINTS OF LEVEL 1 SUBJECTS |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | TG2201 T02000 TO5002 BX3091 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 22-Mar-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Peter Valentine |
| Lecturers: | Ms Christina Doxford, Assoc. Professor Peter Valentine, Dr Alastair Birtles. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); presentations (15%); essays (35%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 15-Nov-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Alastair Birtles |
| Lecturers: | Ms Christina Doxford, Assoc. Professor Peter Valentine, Dr Alastair Birtles. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); presentations (15%); essays (35%). |
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