2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 17, 2024  
2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog
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HIS 450 - Tourism in World History

Critical examination of tourism's significance in modern world history through guided reading of relevant historiography and historical documents. In addition to analyzing origins of modern tourism in European and North American contexts, examines tourism's prominent role in postcolonial economic development schemes in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.  Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, 200, or 201.  Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Identify the origins of modern tourism.
  2. Compare tourism's social, economic, cultural, environmental significance in different global contexts.
  3. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques (including, for example, identifying its author, date and place of production, form, and intended audience).
  4. Compare and contrast claims about the past by two or more historians.



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