奥塔哥大学

The Bachelor of Arts (BA) is Otago's most flexible undergraduate degree programme, enabling students to study from a selection of more than 40 arts and social science subjects, as well as papers offered elsewhere in the University. Academic breadth is complemented by in-depth knowledge gained through majoring in one or two subjects with the option of minors in one or two others.

Students are taught by research-active scholars, are expected to undertake a diverse range of learning tasks and are challenged to develop their intellectual independence. Graduates of the programme are well-informed, versatile, independent thinkers with the information literacy, communication, research and interpersonal skills necessary for a career or further academic study. The completed BA is an entry qualification for the PGDipArts in the major subject of the degree.

Tourism, Languages and Cultures

With the growth of tourism in New Zealand and internationally, the tourism industry worldwide is seeking graduates who are multilingual and who have an understanding of the cultural needs of their guests.

The Tourism, Languages and Cultures major subject offers students an opportunity to gain skills to work with people from other cultures in tourism and related business settings, by providing the necessary language literacy and cultural understanding, and cross-cultural perspectives, while also acquiring a solid grounding in tourism management.

Students can choose to study one or more of the following languages/cultures: Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, or Maori. Students have the choice of a range of tourism papers, and can for example, include events or accommodation management, or ecotourism, among other papers. There is also space within this major for students to complement their chosen language/culture specialty with other appropriate humanities or business papers.

Programme Requirements

100-level

TOUR 101 Introduction to Tourism

TOUR 102 Global Tourism

200-level

TOUR 217 Tourist Behaviour

TOUR 218 Tourism and Hospitality Enterprise Management

TOUR 219 Destination Management

300-level

Two of TOUR 301, TOUR 303, TOUR 304, TOUR 305, TOUR 306

Plus

234 further points comprising:

126 points of approved language and/or culture papers, including a minimum of two language acquisition papers in one particular language (Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Maori)

At least two 300-level papers drawn from the offerings of the Department of Languages and Cultures and/or Te Tumu, the School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies

One additional 18-point paper from either Tourism or Languages and Cultures

Further Arts papers worth 90 points