St. Edmund Campion Secondary School
Department of Canadian & World Studies
COURSE NAME: Travel and Tourism
COURSE CODE: CGG301
LEVEL: Grade 11, Open
This course focuses on travel and tourism to examine the unique characteristics of selected world regions from a geographic perspective. Students develop an understanding and appreciation of the ways in which the natural environments, economies, cultures, and other aspects of world regions interact.
Students understand the travel and tourism industry through a series of issues-based investigations that highlight the complexity of the industry and the interconnectedness of the components. Students learn to identify the benefits of travel while minimizing cultural and economic conflicts to achieve sustainable natural and human systems. Past and present patterns and trends are analysed in order to make predictions about the opportunities and possibilities for future travel and tourism. Students gain valuable skills, including the analysis of controversial issues and the use of geotechnologies to organize and synthesize information gathered from regional studies. This course includes a focus on the local community as a source of information about travel and tourism activities and businesses.
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CURRICULUM STRANDS AND OVERALL EXPECTATIONS |
Geographic Foundations: Space and Systems
Overall Expectations
SSV.01 · demonstrate an understanding of themes and concepts related to regional geography, including region, pattern, movement, and interaction;
SSV.02 · analyse the influence of human systems on patterns of travel and tourism and, conversely, the influence of travel and tourism on human systems;
SSV.03 · analyse factors influencing movements of people and regional distribution patterns related to travel and tourism;
SSV.04 · demonstrate an understanding of selected characteristics of the travel and tourism industry from a geographic perspective.
Human-Environment Interactions
Overall Expectations
HEV.01 · explain the effects of natural systems on travel and tourism patterns;
HEV.02 · analyse the impact of different types of travel and tourism on the natural environment;
HEV.03 · evaluate programs and initiatives designed to manage and protect the resources on which tourism is based.
Global Connections
Overall Expectations
GCV.01 · analyse global patterns of tourism and the factors that affect them;
GCV.02 · explain the cultural and economic impacts of travel and tourism on destination regions;
GCV.03 · compare the nature and characteristics of selected tourist regions of the world.
Understanding and Managing Change
Overall Expectations
UCV.01 · explain how changes and trends in society have an impact on travel and tourism patterns;
UCV.02 · analyse the economic, political, and cultural effects of tourism-related development on a community or region;
UCV.03 · evaluate the impact of planning, policies, and initiatives of governments, businesses, and other organizations on travel and tourism.
Unit #1: Understanding Travel and Tourism
Unit #2: Tourism and the Economy
Unit #3: Tourism and Culture
Unit #4: Tourism and the Environment
Unit #5: Planning for the Future of Travel and Tourism
Unit #6: The Travel and Tourism Report: A Case Study
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ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION |
A final grade is recorded for every course, and a credit is granted and recorded for every course in which the student's grade is 50% or higher. The final grade for each course in Grades 9–12 will be determined as follows:
• Seventy per cent (70%) of the grade will be based on evaluations conducted throughout the course. This portion of the grade should reflect the student’s most consistent level of achievement
throughout the course, although special consideration should be given to more recent evidence
of achievement .
• Thirty per cent (30%) of the grade will be based on a final evaluation in the form of an examination, performance, essay, and/or other method of evaluation suitable to the course content and administered towards the end of the course.
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Term Work |
55% |
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Mapping
Research Paper
Final Culminating Activity |
5%
10%
15% |
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Final Exam |
15% |
Within these two areas, marks will be obtained using the four categories specified in the Ontario Curriculum: Canadian and World Studies, Grades 11 and 12 revised 2005.
The categories of knowledge and skills are described as follows:
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Knowledge and Understanding.
• Subject-specific content acquired in each course (knowledge), and the comprehension of its meaning and significance (understanding). |
25% |
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Thinking.
The use of critical and creative thinking skills and/or processes, as follows :
• planning skills (e.g., focusing research, gathering information, organizing an inquiry)
• processing skills (e.g., analysing, evaluating, synthesizing)
• critical/creative thinking processes (e.g., inquiry, problem solving, decision making, research) |
25% |
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Communication.
The conveying of meaning through various forms , as follows :
• oral (e.g., story, role play, song, debate)
• written (e.g., report, letter, diary)
• visual (e.g., model, map, chart, movement, video, computer graphics) |
25% |
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Application.
• The use of knowledge and skills to make connections within and between various contexts. |
25% |
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