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Crispin Thurlow Faber
COM 597
Seattle Campus
Class description
"TOURISM AS GLOBAL CULTURE"
This class will be co-taught by Professor Crispin Thurlow (IAS, UW Bothell) and Professor Miriam Kahn (Anthropology, UW Seattle).
The class is cross-listed as:
COM 597 Special Topics in Communication BCULST 593 Topics in Cultural Studies ANTH 569 Special Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology
The class will meet Mondays between 4:30pm and 7:20pm in PARRINGTON 112 (ignore any other room listing) on the Seattle campus.
We will be examining a series of key concepts in critical tourism studies (e.g. authenticity, colonialism, language/discourse, space/place, material culture) as well as different sites or modes of travel (e.g. alternative tourism, luxury tourism, paradise tourism, tragedy tourism). The class will culminate in a roundtable presentation of students' independent studies of a destination or mode of travel. One or two field trips are envisaged, including one to Leavenworth, WA.
NOTE: Given the national holiday on Monday 28th May, our last day of class will be Wednesday 30th May, usual time. Please make sure you can attend that last session *before* enrolling for the class.
More information about the class will be available shortly. Please feel free to contact either Professor Thurlow (thurlow@uw.edu) or Professor Kahn (mkahn@uw.edu) with any questions in the meantime.
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