Tourism, Creativity and Culture
UndergraduateTAS-HGA3182025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $2,440
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Tourism, Creativity and Culture
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Explain key concepts in the study of tourism, creativity and culture.
- Apply diverse theoretical perspectives to empirical cases in tourism, cultural and creative fields.
- Articulate your own positions on key debates within the field of tourism, creativity and culture.
- Communicate your ideas clearly in multiple formats.
- Introduction to Unit: Tourism and Creative Cultural Products
- Framework: Relations between Tourism, Creativity and Culture
- Creative Worlds and Systems
- Interpreting Creativity and other Cultures
- Tourism and the Experience Economy
- Festivals, Tourism and Cultural Development in Tasmania
- Visit to a Museum (Self-organized)
- Cambodia’s Creative Tourism Development
- Tourism and Society: Local Tourism and Cultural Capital
- Creative Industries and Society
- Place Branding and Branding Tasmania
- Community, Cultural and Tourism Development
This subject will enable students to understand how tourism and cultural industries have dramatically changed our lives. Cultural industries have grown significantly, with examples such as museums, regional festivals and wilderness adventures. At the same time there is an increasing capacity for travel and an increasing need to replace income earned from traditional industries with those from tourism. Different societies are now not only in greater contact with each other but also relating to each other in new ways, as well as benefitting from the growth of cultural capacity in their own localities. The subject will cover three related areas:
- The first situates the creative economy in the various social, economic and political contexts around the world. Creative cultural industries have become crucial to the life of major cities, regional economies and remote areas.
- The second area that is explored relates to the way in which creative and cultural industries have expanded through travel, international access and changes in the way cities, history, nature, culture, music, food, and art develop into new forms of experiences.
- The third area that is explored relates to creative and cultural case studies. You will also learn about options for communicating research and knowledge transfer, the collection and collation of literature and background research.
- Summary of Three Cultural Heritage Concepts (25%)
- Excursion Report (50%)
- Group Presentation (25%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Others
Conditional Pre-requisite: 25 credit points at Introductory level or higher
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching arrangements: Weekly recorded lectures or equivalent (2 hours) and fortnightly online tutorials (1.5 hours)
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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