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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS TUR 2025 TOURISM SOCIOLOGY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Tourism and Hotel Management

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR CEYLAN ALKAN

Offered to

Tourism and Hotel Management

Course Objective

let them practice better the tourism jobs which are nested with the public

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Defining the basic concepts the sociology and its relationship with tourism 2   Understanding the the tourist-host relationships, tourist typologies 3   Understanding the effects of the public on tourism. 4   Understanding mostly the physical, socio-cultural and socio-economic effects of the tourism on public and employees 5   Adjusting the tourism products according to the nature of the tourist and world trends.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Sociology and Tourism Sociology, definitions 2 Towards a sociological understanding of contemporary tourism industry 3 The Tourism system and the individual 4 Tourism, culture and social inequality 5 Tourism underdevelopment and dependency 6 Tourism and Social institutions 7 General Review 8 Midterm 9 Politicization of Tourism 10 Gender and Economic interests in tourism 11 Interpretations of tourism as commodity 12 Social Tourism 13 Mega events and micro modernization: sociology of new urban tourism 14 Sociology of rural tourism 15 Final 16 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Turizmin Sosyo-Kültürel Temelleri, Hasan Zafer Doğan, Detay Yayıncılık, 2004

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA 1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM 2 ASG ASSIGNMENT 3 FIN FINAL EXAM 4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VZ * 0.20 + ODV * 0.20 + FN * 0.60 5 RST RESIT 6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VZ * 0.20 + ODV * 0.20 + BUT * 0.60 *** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

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 2 26 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 1 10 Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10 Preparation for final exam 1 15 15 Preparing assignments 1 10 10 Preparing presentations 1 5 5 Final 1 1 1 Midterm 1 1 1 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 78

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 LO.1 5 LO.2 5 LO.3 5 LO.4 5 LO.5 5