BX3095 - Visitor and Crowd Behaviour Management
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Business |
Using an organising model, this subject builds the students' knowledge base so they can appraise and respond to key issues in visitor and crowd behaviour management. Core issues addressed include classification schemes to describe people in the crowd, leisure, tourism and recreation settings; analyses of motivation; destination and entertainment images and choices; studies of facility design including orientation; a review of conflicts; management by interpretation; cross-cultural interaction; and assessing satisfaction complaints and experiential outcomes. Sustainability issues and emic (participant) perspectives provide key reference themes throughout the subject.
Learning Outcomes
- explain issues in visitor and public behaviour management;
- appraise the value of core concepts in the field for academic and applied insights;
- create realistic solutions to specific visitor and crowd management problems.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
- The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
- The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
- The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
- The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively.
| Prerequisites: | 18 CP OF BU OR BX SUBJECTS |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | BX2092 TO2006 TO5006 TO6006 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 29-Aug-2013 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Philip Pearce |
| Lecturers: | Miss Allison Rossetto, Dr Tingzhen Chen, Professor Philip Pearce. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); quizzes or tests (25%); assignments (25%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 29-Aug-2013 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Philip Pearce |
| Lecturers: | Miss Allison Rossetto, Dr Tingzhen Chen, Professor Philip Pearce. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); quizzes or tests (25%); assignments (25%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22 | |
| Census Date 15-Aug-2013 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Philip Pearce |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); quizzes or tests (25%); assignments (25%). |
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