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The learning strategies will require students to commit 150 learning hours, of which 36 hours will consist of contact time. Lectures (12 hours) will provide students with a broad theoretical overview and the conceptual frameworks needed to study the relationship between culture, tourism and leisure, and to understand the influence of culture upon global tourism and leisure movements. Workshops and tutorial support activities (24 hours) will provide students with the opportunity to acquire and develop a range of critical thinking and analytical techniques to apply the underpinning theories to cases and scenarios, and to complete interpretation exercises in preparation for the assessment.

A further 114 hours of independent study will require students to read and think about preparatory questions which will form the basis of workshop and tutorial discussions. Students are also required to organise and review their lecture notes and undertake preparatory reading and research on assigned material in order to participate in class discussions individually and as part of a group.

The purpose of the module is to explore the embodiment of culture in contemporary international tourism and leisure movements. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach the module will require students to examine the relationship between tourism, leisure and culture in a global context. The module seeks to understand the role played by culture upon representations of people, populations and pasts in the tourism/leisure market place. An appreciation of the contribution of culture as a tool for place regeneration in the development and management of tourism/leisure will be considered. The module will further require students to adopt a critical stance to scrutinise the ways in which culture is contextualised across the world in tourism receiving and generating countries. The overall impetus of the module is to locate the concept of `culture' to the study of people, populations, pasts and places in the business of tourism and leisure.

Topics covered in the module will be drawn from: definitions, theories (e.g. anthropology, cultural studies and sociology) and concepts (e.g. authenticity, commodification and `Othering¿) of culture; tourist/leisure behaviour and motivations (e.g. host-guest interactions, relationship between tourism/leisure and rituals and influences of culture); cultural forms of tourism/leisure (e.g. cultural tourism, heritage tourism, ethnic tourism); festivals and events with cultural dimensions (e.g. art, music and tours); marketing culture in tourism/leisure (e.g. representations of the `Other', cultural brokers and image); cultural impacts of tourism/leisure (e.g. positive and negative effects); issues of identity relating to tourism, leisure and culture (e.g. ethnic, national and religious); use of culture in regeneration (e.g. culture and regeneration; culture-led regeneration and cultural regeneration in tourism/leisure environments); researching culture in tourism/leisure studies.

Details: The individual take-home test assignment 100% (2500 words) assesses all Learning outcomes