Syllabus for undergraduate of OUC Course name: Ecological Tourism Course time:36 credit hours Course teacher:Li Shujuan
1.Course Overview Course Description:
Ecological tourism(Eco-tourism is a new cross discipline.It is a new and sustainable development of tourism products based on the principle of ecology as a pointer, to gain social and economic benefits and promote the protection of the ecological environment taking the ecological environment and the natural environment as the object.This course is an elective course for tourism management major.The contents of the course include the development and characteristics of the ecological tourism, theoretical basis,the formation and behavior of ecological tourist,the formation, types and protective development of ecological tourism resources, the management of ecological tourism industry, the capacity and protection of ecological tourism environment,etc. Through learning the course, students could apply the viewpoint of ecological tourism theory and system to analysis ecological tourist, ecological tourism resources, ecological tourism and ecological tourism environment,
master the methods of protective development of ecological tourism resources, ecological tourism industry management and the measurement and control ecological tourism environmental capacity, understand and grasp the ecological tourism in the high theoretical degree, and cultivate the ability to analyze and solve the problems encountered in the practice using the point of ecological tourism.
The relationship with other courses:
The prerequisite courses include Economics, Management, Tourism Conspectus, Hotel Management, Travel Agency Management, Scenic Spot Development and Management,Tourism Marketing, Tourism Geography, Tourism Psychology, Tourism Resources Planning and Development,etc. 2. Student Learning Outcomes
The system study of the course can enable students to understand and master the basic concept of ecological tourism, basic theory and basic content more comprehensively and systematically, further understand the development trend of tourism industry and the development of ecological tourism and cultivate students' environmental consciousness and ecological philosophy, consumer awareness.Specific requirements are:
(1Through learning the course, students could apply the viewpoint of ecological tourism theory and system to analysis
ecological tourist, ecological tourism resources, ecological tourism and ecological tourism environment, master the methods of protective development of ecological tourism resources, ecological tourism industry management and the measurement and control ecological tourism environmental capacity and understand and grasp the ecological tourism in the high theoretical degree.(2Be able to comprehensively use learned basic theories and research methods, view