Issues to be dealt with include tourist and host encounters, and cultur al and environmental change and the role of northern landscapes in tourist experiences. Instruction is based on research grounded in different theoret ical approaches and presenting diverse cases.
At the end of the cours e the students will be able to
- Describe the main characteristics of tourism in the Circumpolar North
- Compare tourism in the Circump olar North and in other regions
- Apply theoretical concepts to descr ibe tourist's experiences and analyze their performances
- Apply rele vant theoretical concepts to analyze tourist's performances
- Assess and critically discuss tourism development in different regions in the Circ umpolar North in relation to different groups of tourists and modes of trav el
Time and location: Spring 2020 (Mar ch 3 – May 5). This online course is provided via the Moodle learn ing environment of University of Iceland.
Admission requireme
nts: Applicants must have a Bachelor's degree in tourism, social s
cience, humanities, or business administration. Admission to the course by
students from universities which do not participate in this course may be r
estricted. For more information, please contact the course coordinator (
Applying for the course: The coordinators of the pa
rticipating universities should nominate their students for this course by
email to Sigríður Sif Magnúsdóttir (This email address is being protected from spambots. Yo
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Together with nominations the followin g information needs to be provided by the home department/student:
1.
Confirmation from home department of registration in MS studies
2. Co
nfirmation from home department that the credits will be evaluated
3.
Scanned copy of passport of student
4. Scanned certificate of a compl
eted undergraduate degree
Course coordinators of participatin g universities:
Nipissing University - Patrick Maher (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need J
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UiT the Arcti
c University of Norway - Bente Heimtun (This email address is being protected fro
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Umeå University - Doris
Carson (Thi
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ed to view it.)
University of Oulu – Kaarina Tervo-Kankare (
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University of Lapl
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University of
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Van
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Further information about this course is available here.
The cours e is part of the UArctic Master's focus on Northern Tourism, a sequence of three interdisciplina ry courses related to the Arctic undertaken in an existing Master's degree.