TM9634 - Culture, Tourism and Eventful Cities

The two hour weekly lectures will provide you with a theoretical underpinning of the module content, relating theory to practice through real world examples. The one hour weekly seminar will give you the opportunity to apply the module content to contemporary contexts and develop further research into the topic.

Your directed study will support the work you have undertaken in the contact sessions. You will be expected to keep up-to-date with recommended readings and workshop activities. The self-directed study will be directly linked to the assignment. The assignment provides you with the opportunity to agree a topic of analysis with the module tutor. Alternatively, the tutor will choose a range of topics/questions from which you can choose one to study, address and analyse in written form.

Independent learning time is also set aside for learning activities, self-identified by you, to gain a deeper and broader knowledge of the subject.

Support will be provided to you by a member of academic staff leading the module and providing the lecture input. Other members of staff will contribute to the teaching of the module based on their research expertise.

Your module is supported by an e-learning portal, which houses lecture materials, seminar exercise, alongside assessment details and various support facilities such as recordings of certain lectures and IT applications, alongside other electronic support facilities.

You will be provided with a wide-ranging electronic reading list that comprises various academic reports, books sections and journal articles that contributes to the understanding of concepts and ideas in culture, tourism, events and cities.

The module assessment will be based on a 3000 word written assignment. You will require desk-based research and application skills as well as an understanding of theoretical issues and concepts. All the necessary information for the assessment will be available to the e-learning portal. Specific time will be allocated in class to support the assessment.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. Online reading lists (provided after enrolment) give you access to your reading material for your modules. The Library works in partnership with your module tutors to ensure you have access to the material that you need.

Knowledge & Understanding:
• Demonstrate critical understanding of the latest social science paradigms, theories, concepts and ideas as they apply to culture, tourism and eventful cities. (MLO1)

• Critically appraise understanding of the complex relations between culture, tourism, events and the urban process and the issues surrounding responsible tourism and events development and management in cities. (MLO2)

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
• Critique personal values and attributes against the issues raised in this module around tourism and events development and management in cities. (MLO3)

Personal Values Attributes
(Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):

• Contextualise relevant concepts and theories for the analysis of contemporary issues, and to exercise critical autonomy in assessing developmental issues in relation to tourism and events development and management. (MLO4)

• Critically evaluate the cultural and ethical issues pertaining to tourism culture within the city context. (MLO5)

• The module assessment is by one 3000 word assignment.

• There will be scope for you to set the topic of the assignment in agreement with the module tutor in relation to the issues raised in the module. Alternatively, you can choose one topic/question from a range set by the module tutor to address in the assignment.

• You will be assessed on your ability to apply theories to the understanding and interrogation of a contemporary issue in relation to culture, tourism and events in cities.

• MLO1, MLO2, MLO3, MLO4 and MLO5 will be addressed by this summative assessment.

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In our globalised world, cities increasingly compete for tourists and other consumers of culture, and culture is becoming more central to the development of cities internationally. In particular, we are seeing more spectacular cultural events and festivals in cities than ever before, and that trend is growing, impacting not only on the way tourists consume the city but on the way people who live in cities live their everyday lives.

In this module you will have the opportunity of examining these trends by considering such things as: changing forms of cultural expression in cities; the remaking of cities and the roles of festivals and events in that, urban renaissance; gentrification; managing cultural cities, urban heritage tourism; the relationship between tourism the media and popular culture. You will also have the opportunity to consider what it means to live in, and be a citizen of, the eventful city.