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Unit description
Investigates relationships between tourism, sport, culture and other special events. Students critique event impacts, trends, and the role of entrepreneurialism to inform event practices.
Unit content
Topic 1: Defining differences in sport, culture and special events
Topic 2: Examining the economic impact of events
Topic 3: Assessing the social and environmental impacts of events
Topic 4: Trends in participation and serious leisure
Topic 5: Secrets to entrepreneurial sport event designs
Topic 6: Secrets to entrepreneurial cultural event designs
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | discuss differentiating characteristics of sport, cultural and special events |
| 2 | critically analyse the impacts events have on all stakeholder groups |
| 3 | synthesise trends to design entrepreneurial events. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- discuss differentiating characteristics of sport, cultural and special events
- critically analyse the impacts events have on all stakeholder groups
- synthesise trends to design entrepreneurial events.
Teaching and assessment
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