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Going Places - Travelling Smarter (UNIB20018)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Semester 2
Overview
Availability | Semester 1 - Dual-Delivery Semester 2 - Dual-Delivery |
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Aiming to enhance travel and/or transcultural experiences, Going Places – Travelling Smarter provides interdisciplinary methods to observe and interpret new environments, identify positive educational, professional and personal opportunities, and report and record reflections and experiences before, during and after travelling. Lectures from diverse disciplinary areas will unpack fundamental precepts and explore key concepts relating to travel, such as cosmopolitanism, cognitive benefits of travelling, stereotyping, global and developing economies, environmental concerns, identity and alterity. Through regular preparatory research and peer review in tutorials, students will develop expertise in a particular region and learn more about the rest of the world from other students in themed modules, covering subjects such as architecture, urban and rural environments, conflict, tourism, language and communication, economics, geography, gastronomy, music and creative arts. This expertise will be demonstrated through collaborative participation in tutorials and in online blog posts. An emphasis on ethnographic methods for negotiating transcultural encounters and new technologies for sharing information will assist students from all faculties and disciplines to improve their ability to engage with their own and others’ mobility. Students will test their ethnographic skills through a research-mapping project focusing on new ways of engaging with familiar places. The final research project will draw together the broad disciplinary approaches, including ethnography, geography, communication, mapping, tourism, economics and the arts, in a place-based case-study (city, region, sacred site, monument, factory, etc) to expose the interconnectedness of nature and culture, business and science, people and politics. These collaborative experiences and individual assessments encourage students to re-examine identities, develop transcultural competence and deepen understanding of what it means to be a global citizen.
Intended learning outcomes
This subject aims to enable students to:
- use digital technologies for preparatory research, concurrent training modules and augmented reality apps (ie setting up blog site for use on exchange, online language courses, Google Earth for mapping, Zome AR app)
- identify the best travel resources for their purposes
- engage with discourses around different ways of travelling – culinary, sporting, volunteering, walking, scientific, professional, etc.
- develop strategies for mapping spaces of travel – geographical, architectural, historical, cultural, social, scientific, medical, linguistic etc.
- negotiate culture shock, evaluate risk, and other potentially complex encounters
- explore transcultural, environmental, political and economic issues associated with travelling
- examine tourism development strategies and their impact on cultures and economies
- produce texts and images that demonstrate the multiple angles for understanding and recounting travel experiences
Generic skills
At the completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to identify interdisciplinary methods necessary to prepare for travel experiences;
- be able to analyse dominant factors influencing travel experiences in both general and particular contexts;
- have developed critical thinking around intercultural, environmental, political and economic issues associated with travelling in both general and particular contexts;
- be able to communicate research effectively on specialised topics and areas through oral presentation;
- be able to generate texts and images that demonstrate understanding of the key issues associated with travelling, including culture shock, conflict and tourism;
- be able to apply analytical methods relating to travel appropriately to both familiar and foreign case studies.
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Collaborative participation and peer review in tutorials.
| Throughout the semester | 15% |
Blogs
| Throughout the semester | 25% |
Research-Mapping project
| Mid semester | 20% |
Research-Case-Study
| During the examination period | 40% |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 75% of tutorials in order to pass this subject. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Additional details
Note: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day and in-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked.
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Jacqueline Dutton Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours - 1 x 2 hour tutorial/workshop per week 1 x 1 hour online lecture per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 1 March 2021 to 30 May 2021 Last self-enrol date 12 March 2021 Census date 31 March 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 May 2021 Assessment period ends 25 June 2021 Semester 1 contact information
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Jacqueline Dutton Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours - 1 x 2 hour tutorial/workshop per week 1 x 1 hour online lecture per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 July 2021 to 24 October 2021 Last self-enrol date 6 August 2021 Census date 31 August 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 September 2021 Assessment period ends 19 November 2021 Semester 2 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Additional delivery details
It is recommended that students have completed one year of full-time undergraduate studies in any discipline/faculty before enrolling in this subject.
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Reading pack will be made available
- Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 22 March 2024