Hong Kong Shue Yan University
Department of English Language & Literature
2nd term, 2015-2016
Course Title
: Travel and Culture
Course Code
: ENG 389
Year of Study
: 2nd or 3rd
Number of Credits
:3
Duration in Weeks
: 14
Contact Hours Per Week
: Lecture (2 Hours)
: Tutorial (1 Hour)
Pre-requisite(s)
: NIL
Prepared by
: Dr. LAM Yee Man
Course Aims
Travel has recently become a complex phenomenon of unprecedented proportions. This course
aims at providing a theoretical and historical framework to analyze and reflect upon the
relationships between travel and culture through an interdisciplinary approach. Topics
discussed include: globalization, gender, consumption, theme parks, ecology, heritage and
authenticity, etc. Travel writing will also be emphasized.
Course Intended Learning Outcomes (TLOs)
Upon completion of this course students should be able to:
TLO1
state the basic issues in the study of cultural tourism.
TLO2
articulate the relationship between culture and travel, culture and tourism.
TLO3
evaluate and criticize travel literature and travel writings with critical
concepts.
TLO4
comment on and criticize cultural phenomena related to travel and tourism.
TLO5
synthesize theoretical concepts and daily life experience.
TLO6
write critically on a specific issue in the field of culture and travel
TLA4
TLA5
TLA6
TLA7
Teaching and Learning Activities (TLAs)
introduction of relevant issues
explanation of critical concepts
illustration of important issues and critical concepts and issues with daily
examples and multimedia materials
explanation of required readings
field trip
in-class discussions
oral presentations on a specific topic by students
TLA8
TLA9
TLA10
group project on field trip
peer comment on presentation and discussion
writing of term paper
TLA1
TLA2
TLA3
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Assessment Tasks (ATs)
AT1
AT2
AT3
AT4
AT5
Tutorial Participation
Oral Presentation
Group Project
Term Paper
Final Examination (Open book)
5%
10%
15%
30%
40%
TOTAL 100%
Alignment of Course Intended Learning Outcomes, Teaching and Learning Activities and
Assessment Tasks
Course Intended Learning
Teaching and Learning
Assessment Tasks
Outcomes
Activities
TLO1
TLA1,4
AT1,3
TLO2
TLA1,2,4,6,7
AT1,3,4
TLO3
TLA1,2,4,6
AT1,3,4
TLO4
TLA2,3,5,6,7,8,10
AT1,2,3,4
TLO5
TLA3,5,7,8,9,10
AT1,2,3,4
TLO6
TLA2,4,10
AT3,4
Course Outline:
(Tentative)
Week 1 Introduction: Archetypal Travel
Week 2 The Privileged Eye
Adler, J. (1998). “Origins of Sightseeing.” In C. T. Williams (Ed.), Travel Culture: Essays on What
Makes us Go. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 3-23.
Bohls, E and Ducan, I. (2005). Travel Writing: 1700- 1830 An Anthology. Oxford; New York:
Oxford University Press. (Excerpt)
Week 3 Tourist Gaze
John Urry, The Tourist Gaze, (London; Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage, 2002): 1-15
Week 4-5 Tourism and Postcolonial Discourse
Tucker, Hazel & Akama, John. (2009) “Tourism as Postcolonialism.” In T. Jamal and M. Robinson
(Ed.), The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies. London: Sage. 504-520.
Jamaica Kincaid, A small place (Excerpt)
Week 6 Heritage and Authenticity
Meethan, Kevin. (2001) "Authenticity and Heritage." Tourism in Global Society: Place, Culture,
Consumption. New York: Palgrave. 90-113.
Week 7 Field Trip
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Week 8 McDisneyization and Tourism
Ritzer, George & Liska, Allan. (1997) "'McDisneyization' and 'Post-Tourism': Complementary
Perspectives on Contemporary Tourism." Touring Cultures. 96-112.
Week 9 Tourism and the Environment
Jarkko Saarinen, “Tourism and Touristic Representations of Nature.” In A. Lew, C. M. Hall and
Al. Williams (Ed.) A Companion to Tourism. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publisher, 2004. 438-449
Week 10 Traveler and Backpacker
Siegel, K. and Wulff, T. (2002). “Travel as Spectacle.” In K. Siegel (Ed.), Issues in Travel Writing.
New York: Peter Lang. 109-122.
Week 11- 12 Gender:
Enloe, C. (2000). “On the Beach.” Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of
International Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press. 19-41.
Bill Bryson, Neither here nor there: Travels in Europe (Excerpt)
Week 13 Diaspora
Film: Almaya, Welcome to Germany!
Week 14 Group Presentation
Week 15 Recapitulation
Academic Honesty
You are expected to do your own work. Dishonesty in fulfilling any assignment undermines the learning process
and the integrity of your college degree. Engaging in dishonest or unethical behavior is forbidden and will result in
disciplinary action, specifically a failing grade on the assignment with no opportunity for resubmission. A second
infraction will result in an F for the course and a report to College officials. Examples of prohibited behavior are:
Cheating – an act of deception by which a student misleadingly demonstrates that s/he has mastered
information on an academic exercise. Examples include:
Copying or allowing another to copy a test, quiz, paper, or project
Submitting a paper or major portions of a paper that has been previously submitted for another class
without permission of the current instructor
Turning in written assignments that are not your own work (including homework)
Plagiarism – the act of representing the work of another as one’s own without giving credit.
Failing to give credit for ideas and material taken from others
Representing another’s artistic or scholarly work as one’s own
Fabrication – the intentional use of invented information or the falsification of research or other findings
with the intent to deceive.
To comply with the University’s policy, the term paper has to be submitted to both VeriGuide.
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Reference
Chambers, Erve, ed. (1997) Tourism and Culture: An Applied Perspective. New York: Suny.
Crouch, David, Ed. (1999) Leisure/ tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge.
London and New York: Routledge.
MacCannell, Dean. (2011) The Ethics of Sightseeing. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Fennel, David A. (1999) Ecotourism: An Introduction. London & New York: Routledge.
Franklin, Adrian. (2003) Tourism: An Introduction. London: Sage.
Kinnaird, Vivian & Hall, Derek, eds. (1994) Tourism: A Gender Analysis. Eds. Vivan Kinnaird and
Derek Hall. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Meethan, Kevin. (2001) Tourism in Global Society: Place, Culture, Consumption. Hamsphire:
Palgrave.
Page, Stephen J. & Dowling, Ross K. (2002) Ecotourism. New York: Prentice Hall.
Rojek, Chris & Urry, John, ed. (1997) Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory.
London and New York: Routledge
Rothman, Hal, K., ed. (2003)The Culture of Tourism, the Tourism of Culture: Selling the Past to
the Present in the American Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Smith, Melanie K. (2004) Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies. London & New York: Routledge.
Timothy, Dallen J. & Boyd, Stephen W. (2003) Heritage Tourism. London: Prentice Hall.
Wahab, Salah & Cooper, Chris, eds. (2001) Tourism in the Age of Globalisation. London & New
York: Routledge.
Wearing, Stephen & Neil, John. (1999) Ecotourism: Impacts, Potentials and Possibilities. Oxford:
Butterworth Heinemann.
Weaver, D.B. (1998) Ecotourism in the Less Developed World. Wallington: CABI Publishing.
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