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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SOCIOL 216 - Sociology of Tourism

Formerly SOCIOL 307
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once

Description:
This course will introduce students to sociological perspectives on travel and tourism by blending theoretical and empirical readings with direct field study. We will ask questions such as: How do meanings get ascribed to places? How are tourist attractions created, sold, and consumed? What narratives about place, history, and community are constructed and how do these stories shape our understandings of the places that we visit and the people who inhabit them? How does tourism reinscribe or erode inequalities of race, class, gender, and national origin? The course will provide students with a new lens for understanding tourism as a global phenomenon.

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