COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIOLOGY OF TOURISM AND LEISURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MSH 0122 SOCIOLOGY OF TOURISM AND LEISURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Efes Vocational School

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEVRIM ERTÜRK

Offered to

Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Tourism and Hotel Management
Civil Aviation Transportation Management
Food Technology

Course Objective

The purpose of this course is to provide the students with a general introduction to the field of sociology of tourism, with emphasis on major issues and current research in the field

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To explain the social dimension of tourism
2   Understanding the complex structure of tourism
3   To learn sociological explanations about the effects of tourism
4   To explain the globalization dimension of tourism
5   To be able to explain the relations of tourism, leisure and recreation

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the sociology of tourism
2 Travel, leisure and consumption
3 Touristic experience
4 Touristic motivations and attitudes
5 Touristic roles and reactions
6 The relationships between tourists and locals
7 The structure of tourist settings
8 Mid-term exam
9 Authenticity in tourist settings
10 Impacts of mass tourism
11 Tourism and globalization
12 Tourism and cultural elements
13 Socioeconomic impacts of tourism
14 Sociocultural impacts of tourism

Recomended or Required Reading

Yiorgis Apostolopoulos, Stella Leivadi, Andrew Yiannakis, The Sociology of Tourism: Theoritical and Emprical Investigations (Routledge advances in tourism), Routledge, New York, 2001.
Cevdet Avcıkurt, Turizm Sosyolojisi, Turist-Yerel Halk Etkileşimi, Detay Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2009.
Hasan Zafer Doğan, Turizmin Sosyo-Kültürel Temelleri, Detay Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2004.
Dean MacCannell, The Tourist A New Theory of the Leisure Class, University of California Press, Ltd., London, 1999
John Urry, Mekanları Tüketmek. Ayrıntı Yayınları, Istanbul, 2015.
Hasan Zafer Doğan, Turizmin Sosyo-Kültürel Temelleri, Detay Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2004.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Face to face

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm+Final exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

It is compulsory to attend % 70 to the classes and fulfill the course requirements

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

devrim.erturk@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 13:00-15:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 4 2 8
Preparation for final exam 4 2 8
Other (watching artwork belong to visual arts) 2 2 4
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55

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