Free Online Course offered by Future Learn on Culture and Tourism

Future Learn Platform is offering everyone interested in the field of Culture and Tourism, a free online course on the theme of Risks and Threats in International Relations. Learners discover the history of natural and cultural heritage and explore methods of promoting and conserving the World Heritage sites.

This course is offered in partnership with Nankai University in China.

Course duration:

4 hours of study, for 6 weeks.

Who can take the course:

1. This course is designed for anyone interested in cross-cultural tourism research and the protection of world cultural heritage.
2. Also individuals who may be interested in the UNESCO world heritage program, improving tourists’ experience of world heritage sites, and promoting the conservation of world heritage.

Course Topics:

1. Week One：Cultural Tourism: Definitions and Concepts.
2. Week Two: Cultural Heritage Categories.
3. Week Three: Australia’s Heritage System: Managing and Safeguarding World Heritage Sites.
4. Week Four: Cultural Landscapes: Meanings, Values, Assessment, Documentation.
5. Week Five: Sustainable Indigenous Tourism.
6. Week Six: Affect and Emotion in Heritage Tourism.

Course Outcomes:

By the end of the course, learner will be able to:

1. Investigate international conventions, charters and standards concerning the protection of World Heritage.
2. Identify and judge the utility of different conceptualisations of heritage.
3. Identify and implement knowledge of practical issues in cultural heritage management.
4. Assess the management of different types of cultural heritage.
5. Discuss the importance of the concept of cultural landscape to World Heritage projects.
6. Evaluate the role that tourism plays in the production and consumption of culture in heritage practices.

Course costs:

• Learner can join this course for free and get access to it for 8 weeks.
• Or upgrade this course for $74 and gets:

1. Access to this course for as long as it’s on Future Learn.
2. Access to this course’s tests as well as a print and digital Certificate of Achievement once he/she is eligible.

• Or buy unlimited for $199 for one year and gets:

1. Access to this course, and hundreds of other FutureLearn short courses and tests for a year.
2. A printable digital Certificate of Achievement on all short courses once they are eligible.
3. The freedom to keep access to any course he/she has achieved a digital Certificate of Achievement on, for as long as the course exists on Future Learn.
4. The flexibility to complete own choice of short courses in learner’s own time within the year.

Nankai University:

The college of Tourism and Service Management occupies its own building with a hotel nearby. It has about 500 undergraduate and 185 postgraduate students with 38 academic staff and 38 support staff.

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