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Basics and Didactics of Tourism
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:01.11.2024 13:39:52
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | LSPA_015 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sports Science | Target Audience: | Sports Trainer | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inga Liepiņa | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Latvian Academy of Sport Education (LASE) | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | LSPA, Brīvības gatve 333, Riga, LV-1006 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 1 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 2 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 29 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 58 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 60 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 1 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 2 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 9 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 18 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | The required knowledge and skill levels are in line with the general secondary education standard in sport, as well as first aid, theory of sports and general pedagogy have been learned. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To enable students to acquire basic theoretical and practical knowledge of tourism. To familiarise students with theoretical and methodological aspects of tourism didactics. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Requirements of the study course. Description of tourism and active tourism. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Characteristics of types of hiking, fitness for natural and anthropogenic resources, contingent of participants and purpose of hiking. | Classes | 2.00 | other | |||||
| 3 | Tourist knots and techniques (elements) – their characterisation, setting up, overcoming and dismantling. | Classes | 11.00 | other | |||||
| 4 | Characterisation, organising, judging and participating in tourism competitions. | Classes | 8.00 | other | |||||
| 5 | Planning and provision of food for tourist hikes and rural camping. | Classes | 2.00 | other | |||||
| 6 | Selection, setting up of a camp site. Setting up a shelter with various available resources and weather conditions. | Classes | 2.00 | other | |||||
| 7 | Safety aspects of tourism activities (hiking, camping, competitions, etc.). | Classes | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 8 | Tourism teaching didactics and methodology. | Classes | 3.00 | other | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Requirements of the study course. Description of tourism and active tourism. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Characteristics of types of hiking, fitness for natural and anthropogenic resources, contingent of participants and purpose of hiking. | Classes | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 3 | Tourist knots and techniques (elements) – their characterisation, setting up, overcoming and dismantling. | Classes | 3.00 | other | |||||
| 4 | Characterisation, organising, judging and participating in tourism competitions. | Classes | 2.00 | other | |||||
| 5 | Planning and provision of food for tourist hikes and rural camping. | Classes | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 6 | Selection, setting up of a camp site. Setting up a shelter with various available resources and weather conditions. | Classes | 0.50 | other | |||||
| 7 | Safety aspects of tourism activities (hiking, camping, competitions, etc.). | Classes | 0.50 | other | |||||
| 8 | Tourism teaching didactics and methodology. | Classes | 1.00 | other | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | To independently develop a tourism hike route according to the instructions of the lecturers. The route developed by the student or a fellow student has been practically realised and assessed. To independently prepare for a tourism camp and tourism hikes (individual and group tools, food, etc.). | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The total assessment is summative. Report – tourism hike plan. Presentation – realised hike. Demonstration of tourist knots (6). Demonstration of rope marking, system winding. Independent setting up of tourism equipment elements. Participation and judging, tourism competitions. Test – test of theoretical knowledge. Participation in a camp, performing camp hike and camping tasks. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | 1. Will know the types of tourism hikes, their fitness for a particular contingent, the resources available. Will know at least 3 digital technologies that can be used in the planning or process of a hike. 2. Will know how to provide food in tourism activities (hiking, camping). 3. Will know various tourism techniques, knots. 4. Will know various tourism competitions. 5. Will know various techniques for tourism equipment, their teaching didactics and methodology. | ||||||||
| Skills: | 6. Will be able to plan a hike according to the hike purpose, contingent and resources. 7. Will be able to plan, set up, overcome and remove various tourism techniques on a terrain. 8. Will be able to prepare, as well as practically perform a tourism hike (walking, water tourism or bicycle tourism). 9. Will be able to set up, overcome and judge tourism competitions. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | 10. The student will be able to analyse the planned and realised hike (including use digital technologies). To analyse changes in the route of the realised hike, if any. Will be able to analyse the purpose achieved by the hike for the selected hiking contingent. 11. The student will be able to apply the mastered theoretical and practical knowledge in a tourism camp (to plan and purchase the necessary individual and group tools, set up a camp site, plan and cook food, adapt to the weather). | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Badvērts Dž. Mezgli. Mezglu siešanas rokasgrāmata. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2009. 128 lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | Brūders A., Krauksta D. Tūrisms. Rīga: LSPA, 1998. 77 lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 3 | Krauksta D., Liepiņa I. Lekcija. Tūrisma pārgājiena organizēšana. LSPA, 2006. 21 lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 4 | Klepers A., Līviņa A., Smaļinskis J. Tūrisma maršrutu veidošana. Valmiera: Vidzemes augstskola, 2010. 117 lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 5 | Tūrisma likums | ||||||||
| 6 | Ārzemju studentiem/For international students: | ||||||||
| 7 | Tourism Law | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Brencis A. Aktīvais tūrisms. Rīga: Biznesa augstskola Turība, 2003. 224 lpp. | ||||||||
| 2 | Latvija. Tūrisma ceļvedis. Rīga: Karšu izdevniecība Jāņa sēta, 2012. 280 lpp. | ||||||||
| 3 | Latvijas Jaunatnes sporta tūrisma federācijas/Latvijas Alpīnisma savienības video metodiskie materiāli “Sporta tūrisma elementu veikšana un ierīkošana”. | ||||||||
| 4 | Nogāze uz augšu | ||||||||
| 5 | Nogāze uz augšu ierīkošana | ||||||||
| 6 | Baļķa pārvarēšana ar margu, baļķa pārlaišana | ||||||||
| 7 | Baļķa margas ierīkošana | ||||||||
| 8 | Paralēlo virvu pārvarēšana | ||||||||
| 9 | Gaisa pārceltuvju pārvarēšana | ||||||||
| 10 | Virvju spriegošana | ||||||||
| 11 | Virvju marķēšana | ||||||||
| 12 | Cietušā transportēšana ar nestuvēm | ||||||||
| 13 | Purva pārvarēšana | ||||||||
| 14 | Mīkule, M., Hānbergs, Ē. Mūsu mazais pārgājiens. Rīga: Jumava, 2013. 189 lpp. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Relive | ||||||||
| 2 | Latvijas Valsts meži (kartes)/Latvian State Forests (maps). | ||||||||
