Syllabus (Revised 9/13/10)
Ecotourism and Nature Tourism - Fall, 2010
Course FOR 476/676, Section 1
Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00 - 3:20 PM, 212 Marshall
Instructor Dr. Diane Kuehn, 310A Bray Hall
Phone: 315-470-6561; E-mail: dmkuehn@esf.edu;
Office hours: Anytime before class on Tuesdays or by appointment.
Class website: www.esf.edu/for/kuehn -- Contains the syllabus with links to class power points, as well as previous class reports.
TA Evisa Abolina, 411 Bray Hall; E-mail: eabolina@syr.edu
Objectives 1). To develop an understanding of the basic concepts of tourism planning for public and private sector community and regional ecotourism and nature tourism development.
2). To explore the interrelationships between resource management and tourism planning and development.
3). To provide a service learning opportunity to students.
Assignments The class will be developing a tourism plan as its class project. The focus of this tourism plan will be discussed in class. Each student will be assigned a specific component of the tourism plan. Students will be responsible for an assessment report and a recommendations report. Each assessment report will provide an assessment of the existing resources related to each student’s tourism plan component. Assessment reports are due by the end of class on November 18. Each recommendations report includes the student’s recommendations concerning his/her tourism plan component, and is due by the end of class on December 9. Each student is required to give two five-minute oral presentations, one outlining the assessment report on November 11 and 16, and the other outlining the recommendations report on November 30 and December 2.
Two homework assignments will be assigned, and are due on the dates indicated on the class schedule. Students are required to present their homework assignments to the class. Reading assignments are listed on the class schedule on the back of this syllabus.
Grad students Each graduate student is required to give a 30-minute presentation on a specified ecotourism or nature tourism destination. The presentation will include information about how the destination is promoted and interpreted, the types of attractions existing, the economic, social, and environmental impacts of tourism at the destination, and the management strategies utilized.
Exam One take-home exam is scheduled during the semester. The exam is open book and in essay format. Working together on the exam is not permitted. There is no final exam.
Field trip One weekend field trip to the location of the final project will be scheduled during the semester. All students are expected to attend and attendance is 5% of the final grade.
Grading Course grades will be based on the combined score of the reports and exams. The contribution of each exam and report to the final grade is as follows:
Take-home exam 25% 20%
Assessment report 30 25
Recommendations report 15 15
Oral report presentations (5% each) 10 10
Oral homework presentation 2 2
Field trip participation 5 5
Class participation 3 3
Graduate student presentation 0 10
Homework assignments (5% each) 10 10
Final grade 100% 100%
Deductions Any reports/homework assignments that are received after the class during which they
for lateness are due will have the following points deducted from the grade: