COURSE UNIT TITLE

: WORLD GEOGRAPHY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIT 5013 WORLD GEOGRAPHY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Marine Tourism

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YUSUF ZORBA

Offered to

Marine Tourism

Course Objective

Tourism geography aims to examine global tourism activities and identify different geographic regions, countries and continents from the touristic point of view. Accordingly, the course aims to dwell on the world geography and have knowledge about the geographical features of different locations associated with tourism.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Have knowledge about world geography
2   To Comment on the relation between tourism and geography concepts
3   To differentiate region, country and continent concepts geographically
4   To distinguish specifications of important regional differences from the touristic point of view
5   To evaluate important issues in marine tourism in terms of tourism and geography, criticize and support with creating new models

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General information about the continents and oceans, map reading, Greenwich timeframe, solstice concept
2 Meteorological elements and climate, world climate zones, world natural vegetation, basic tourism activities in different climatic regions
3 Political, economical, physical, and cultural specifications of world geography
4 Development of tourism and its place in that process
5 Global tourism and its impact characteristic from economic, politic, physical activities
6 Health tourism and examination of key positions around the world
7 Midterm
8 Marine tourism and its contribution to the economic development
9 Caribbean and cruise tourism concept
10 Tourism and environmental planning ecotourism
11 Compose marine tourism environment: Holiday villages, theme parks, marina and its examples around the world
12 Tourism, marine tourism and culture: impact of tourism on local culture
13 Urban tourism: Touristic activities in cities: Olympics
14 Individual requirements and marine tourism concept

Recomended or Required Reading

International Journal of Tourism Research
Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Tourism Management
Journal of Travel Research
Journal of Vacation Marketing
Tourism and Hospitality Research

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Literature survey, case studies, presentation, homework, lecture notes and research results

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

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 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 16 16
Preparing assignments 2 10 20
Preparing presentations 2 10 20
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.154553322132
LO.254553232132
LO.354553232132
LO.454553232132
LO.555553342141