Instructor: Keith Bosak
This graduate level course will focus on geographic concepts such as place, space, scale and citizenship as they apply to tourism. We will also cover spatial analysis techniques and their applications in tourism studies. The course will begin with some background on social theory and its applications in the field of geography. From there we will begin to discuss ideas of space, place and citizenship before moving on to ideas of scale. In our discussion of scale we will focus on the politics of scale and ideas of a global-local nexus. This will lead into a discussion of flows of ideas and people as they apply to tourism. Finally, we will explore some spatial analysis techniques used by geographers studying tourism. The course will rely heavily on current literature, mainly from peer-reviewed journals. Students will be expected to engage with these concepts through the literature in writing and discussion.
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