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HTM-3484: Socio-Cultural Impacts of Tourism

Description: A study of both historic and current impacts of tourism on family, community, culture, government, globalization, and the environment at the domestic and international levels. The course uses a sustainable tourism framework to examine the complex ways in which tourism both affects and is affected by modern society worldwide. Includes topics such as eco-tourism, volunteer tourism and space tourism.

Pathways: 2 Critical Thinking Humanities, 3 Reasoning in Social Sciences, 11 Intercultural&Global Aware.

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 43

Average GPA: 3.57 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 56.28%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.79%

Charis N Tucker202493.7%5.8%0.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.934
Nancy G Mcgehee201547.1%39.6%9.2%1.7%1.9%0.4%3.2811
Kristin Lamoureux202375.8%18.0%4.8%0.2%0.3%1.0%3.6816
Anita Zatori201736.7%43.8%11.4%0.0%4.4%3.6%3.062
Joelle M Soulard202096.9%3.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.973
Bertram B Boley201257.1%34.1%5.8%0.0%1.6%1.3%3.472
Staff Komorowski201566.6%21.2%9.1%0.0%0.0%3.0%3.571
Whitney G Knollenberg201657.2%36.4%4.0%0.8%1.6%0.0%3.443
Staff Hajarrahmah202492.0%8.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.901

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