Undergraduate: Course rule and topic information

Bachelor of Cultural Tourism

(BCulT)

NO NEW STUDENT INTAKE FROM 2009. PLEASE REFER TO THE BACHELOR OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISM.

Program of study
Honours degree

INTRODUCTION

The Bachelor of Cultural Tourism requires three years of full-time study (or the equivalent part-time) and the honours program an additional year (or the equivalent part-time). The course is offered by the Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology.

Enrolment in the honours program may be offered to a student who meets certain academic criteria and subject to the school/department being able to provide appropriate resources and staff to supervise the program of study.

COURSE AIMS

The course aims to develop analytical and practical skills needed by students in the area of cultural tourism to respond to growing market demand for high quality, sustainable tourism development and management.

Its objective is to promote a critical and theoretical understanding of tourism as a global phenomenon and apply that understanding to national, regional and local circumstances by examining a range of industry practices in their cultural contexts. This will involve contact with legal, archaeological, historical, anthropological, socio-cultural methodologies and disciplines as well as skills-orientated tourism business practices in the functioning of the tourism industry.

The course combines academic analysis of trends in worldwide tourism and its impact with practical contact with selected local, regional and national aspects of tourism. Cultural Tourism covers festival and event management; approaches and issues in cultural tourism development; policy and best practice in one of the fastest growing sectors of global tourism. Fieldwork and tourism industry practicums are essential components.

COURSE RULE

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The minimum requirements for consideration for entry to all undergraduate courses are specified in detail in the University Entry Requirements.

PROGRAM OF STUDY [January, 2008]

To qualify for the Bachelor of Cultural Tourism, a student must complete 108 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic, according to the following program of study.

The following topics are compulsory.

Progress to some Second and Third Year topics normally depends on the satisfactory completion of specific lower level topics. See Program Pathways below.

First Year
36 units comprising:

ARCH1001	Introduction to Archaeology	4.5
AUST1004	An Introduction to Aboriginal Studies	4.5
CUTU1002	Australian Social and Cultural Identities	4.5
CUTU1004	Introduction to Law and Society	4.5
CUTU1005	International Cultural Tourism Management	4.5
CUTU1006	Event Design and Practice 1	4.5
TOUR1001	An Introduction to Cultural Tourism and Ecotourism	4.5
TOUR1002	Interpretive Guiding and Marketing	4.5

Second Year
36 units comprising:

CUTU2000	Place, Culture and Tourism: Global Issues, Local Approaches	6
CUTU2002	Touring Australia: Cultures and Communication	6
CUTU2005	Cultural Tourism Practicum 1	3
CUTU2006	Introduction to Tourism Research	3
PROF2100	Project Marketing Principles and Practice	3

Electives: 15 units of topics from Selected Lists below. A minimum of 6 units per year must be taken from topics offered by the School of Humanities.

Third Year
36 units comprising:

CUTU3000	International Principles and Practices for Sustainable Tourism	6
CUTU3002	Cultural Theory: Tourism Perspectives	6
CUTU3005	Cultural Tourism Practicum 2	3
CUTU3006	Tourism Research Project, OR	3
CUTU3006A	Tourism Research Project A	6
PROF2102	Business Planning for Projects	3
PROF2103	Managing Project Budgets	3

Electives: 12 units of topics from Selected Lists below. A minimum of 6 units per year must be taken from topics offered by the School of Humanities.

Other elective topics to be decided from time to time by the Faculty Board with input from the Course Advisory Group.

A maximum of 6 units of electives in each of the Second and Third Years of the Bachelor of Cultural Tourism (a total of 12 units in the degree) may be taken from a faculty other than Education, Humanities, Law and Theology.

A maximum of 3 units of electives in each of Second and Third Years of the Bachelor of Cultural Tourism (a total of 6 units in the degree) may be taken as cross-institutional enrolment electives.

ELECTIVES

SELECTED LIST OF ELECTIVE TOPICS OFFERED BY THE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES

AUST2000	Australian Languages: Issues and Debates	6
AUST2004	Indigenous Australian Art Today	6
AUST2006	Reconciliation and Indigenous Knowledges	6
AUST3998	Issues for Australians	6
ARCH1002A	World Archaeology	6
ARCH2001	Archaeology of Indigenous Australian	6
ARCH2002	Historical Archaeology of Australia	6
ARCH2003	Cultural Heritage Management	6
ARCH2004	Australian Maritime Archaeology	6
ARCH2301	The Museum #	6
ARCH3004	Historical Archaeology in Global Perspective	6
ARCH3005	Underwater and Coastal Archaeology	6
ARCH3013	The Archaelogical Imagination: Fact, Fantasy and Fiction in Archaeological Interpretation	6
CUTU1006A	Event Design and Practice**	6
CUTU2007	Event Design and Practice II	6
CUTU2101	Museums and Exhibitions #	6
CUTU3004	Law and Cultural Practice	6
CUTU3101	Project in Cultural Tourism, OR	3
CUTU3101A	Project in Cultural Tourism	6
ENGL1001A	Professional English	6
ENGL2110	Writing and Designing for the Web	6
ENGL2503	Introduction to Creative Writing	6
ENGL2507	'Wish you were here': Workshopping Travel Writing	6
FREN1121	French 1, Part 1	4.5
FREN1122	French 1, Part 2	4.5
FREN2121	Upper Level French A, Part 1	6
HUMN2201	Settling in Australia: The Italian, Greek and French Experience	6
ITAL1121	Italian 1: Part 1	4.5
ITAL1122	Italian 1: Part 2	4.5
ITAL2121	Italian 2: Part 1	6
ITAL3502	Italians in Australia	6
LEGL2100	Small Business: Legal Issues	6
LEGL2101	Small Business: Legal Foundations	3
LEGL2102	Small Business: Legal Applications	3
LEGL2103	Technology, Regulation and Society	6
LEGL3016	Law and Urban Change: The Impact of Built Heritage	6
LEGL3023	Cultural Heritage and the Law	6
LEGL3028	Regulating Environmental Change	6
LING2702A	Language, Culture and Communication	3
MGRE1121	Modern Greek 1: Part 1	4.5
MGRE1122	Modern Greek 2: Part 1	4.5
MGRE2121	Upper Level Modern Greek A: Part 1	6
MGRE2502	Special Topic in Modern Greek Culture	6
PROF2100	Project Marketing Principles and Practice	3
PROF2101	Professional Writing	6
PROF2102	Business Planning for Projects	3
PROF2103	Managing Project Budgets	3
PROF2104	Finding Money: Researching and Submitting Grant Proposals	3
PROF2105	Tenders: Understanding the Tender Process	3
PROF2106	Preparing Professional Presentations	3
PROF2107	Project Management Essentials	3
SCRN2007	Multimedia Design	6
SCRN3000	Cross-Cultural Media	6
SPAN1121	Spanish 1: Part 1	4.5
SPAN1122	Spanish 1: Part 2	4.5
SPAN2121A	Spanish 2: Part 1	6

** Only available to students who have not completed CUTU1006.

SELECTED LIST OF OTHER ELECTIVE TOPICS

AMST1001	American Popular Culture	4.5
ASST1101	Indonesian, Introductory, Part 1	4.5
ASST1102	Indonesian, Introductory, Part 2	4.5
ASST1201	Indonesian, Introductory A, Part 1	4.5
ASST1202	Indonesian, Introductory A, Part 2	4.5
ASST2013	Indonesian Musical Cultures and Identities	6
ASST2101	Indonesian, Intermediate, Part 1	6
ASST2201	Indonesian, Intermediate A, Part 1	6
BUSN1001	Accounting for Managers	4.5
BUSN1004	International Business Context	4.5
BUSN1005	Introduction to Management	4.5
BUSN2015	Marketing Management	6
BUSN2009	Human Resource Management	6
BUSN2004	Cost and Management Accounting	6
BUSN2010	International Business Management	6
ENVS1701	Environmental Studies	4.5
ENVS1701A	Environmental Studies	6
GEOG2003	Society and Space	6
GEOG2005	Asian Regional Development	6
GLOB1001	Introduction to Globalisation	4.5
GLOB2003	Globalisation and Business	6
HIST1802	Europe, 1945 to the Present	4.5
HIST2050	Themes in Australian Social History	6
HIST2053	Maps and Dreams: Aboriginal Colonial Encounters in Australian History	6
HIST2057	Museums #	6
HIST2063	Memory and the Politics of Difference: Sex, Race and Belonging	6
HIST2064	Australian Environmental Histories	6
HIST3035	Destination Australia: Immigration History	6
INTR1006A	International Relations: An Introduction	6

# Students may not count both ARCH2301 or CUTU2101 and HIST2057 towards their degree.

Language topics may be studied as part of the elective component of the degree provided that students are not also enrolled in a Diploma in Language.

Other topics as approved by the Bachelor of Cultural Tourism course coordinator.

Program Pathways note:

• All First Year topics must normally be completed before students enrol in Second Year topics.
• TOUR1001 and TOUR1002 must normally be completed before students may enrol in PROF2100 Second Year topic.
• Students must have completed a minimum of 18 units of First Year topics before they may enrol in CUTU2005. These 18 units must include TOUR1001, TOUR1002, CUTU1005 and CUTU1006 or CUTU1006A.
• Students must gain a grade of P or NGP or better in these topics or gain approval of the course coordinator, before they may enrol in CUTU2005.
• All Second Year topics must normally be completed before students enrol in Third Year topics.
• Students must have completed a minimum of 15 units of Second Year topics before they may enrol in CUTU3005. These 15 units must include CUTU2000, CUTU2005, CUTU2006 and PROF2100.

HONOURS DEGREE

NO NEW STUDENT INTAKE FROM 2009. PLEASE REFER TO THE BACHELOR OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISM.

A student who has completed all the requirements of the Bachelor of Cultural Tourism, or another qualification which the Faculty Board agrees is equivalent, may be accepted as a candidate for the honours degree providing a sufficiently high standard has been achieved in fulfilling the requirements for the bachelors degree.

To qualify for the honours degree, a student must complete satisfactorily 36 units of study from the following program of study.

CUTU7000	Topic by Thesis - Cultural Tourism	12/18/24
CUTU7000D	Topic by Thesis - Cultural Tourism (Part 1)*, and	9
CUTU7000E	Topic by Thesis - Cultural Tourism (Part 2)*	9
CUTU7000F	Topic by Thesis - Cultural Tourism (Part 1)*, and	6
CUTU7000G	Topic by Thesis - Cultural Tourism (Part 2)*	6
CUTU7001	Problems in Cultural Tourism	6
CUTU7001A	Problems in Cultural Tourism (Part 1)*, and	3
CUTU7001B	Problems in Cultural Tourism (Part 2)*	3
CUTU7002	Special Topic in Cultural Tourism A	6
CUTU7002A	Special Topic in Cultural Tourism A (Part 1)*, and	3
CUTU7002B	Special Topic in Cultural Tourism A (Part 2)*	3
CUTU7005	Cultural Tourism Fieldwork, or	6
CUTU7005A	Cultural Tourism Fieldwork (Part 1)*, and	3
CUTU7005B	Cultural Tourism Fieldwork (Part 2)*	3
HUMN7000	Research Skills and Professional Practice	6
CULT7001	Approaches to Cultural Theory	6

At the discretion of the course coordinator, other honours topics may also be included, to a maximum of 12 units.

* Students must enrol in Part 1 and Part 2 to complete the requirements of this topic.