ID:
GIU0921
Duration (hours):
50
CFU:
8
SSD:
GEOGRAFIA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Secondo Semestre (20/02/2026 - 19/05/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims to develop a critical and conscious awareness of the interconnections between tourism, sustainability, and territorial transformations through an interdisciplinary and participatory approach. Specifically, the course seeks to: 1. Promote interdisciplinary thinking around the connections between territory, development, environment, and active citizenship; 2. Encourage territorial analysis that considers environmental sustainability, spatial justice, and wellbeing; 3. Stimulate critical reflection on tourism in industrialised and deindustrialised contexts, with attention to social and environmental impacts; 4. Foster transversal skills related to geography as an educational tool for social cohesion and inclusion.
Course Prerequisites
No prior knowledge is required. However, a sensitivity to environmental issues and a willingness to engage in collaborative and participatory learning are recommended.
Teaching Methods
The course adopts active and student-centred methodologies: • Flipped classroom, to support autonomy and collaborative learning; • Participatory walking, to foster direct observation and spatial awareness; • Digital Cooperative Learning, to develop digital and teamwork skills; • Debate, to enhance critical thinking and informed discussion.
Assessment Methods
• For attending students: continuous assessment through participation in classroom workshops. Each workshop will be graded, and the final mark will result from the sum of all partial evaluations. • For non-attending students: oral examination aimed at evaluating understanding, critical analysis, and application of the acquired knowledge. Assessment criteria: • Mastery of theoretical concepts and terminology; • Ability to synthesise and critically rework content; • Argumentative coherence and interconnection of topics; • Quality of workshop participation (for attending students).
Contents
Course content • Relationships among territory, development, environment, and active citizenship; • Industrialisation, deindustrialisation, and reindustrialisation: environmental and territorial impacts; • Sustainable tourism and landscape geography; • Spatial justice, wellbeing, and multiculturalism in tourism destinations; • Geography as a tool for active citizenship education and territorial care; • Geography for inclusion and social cohesion.
Course Language
English
More information
Expected Learning Outcomes (ELOs) By the end of the course, students will be able to: 1. Describe key concepts and approaches related to sustainable tourism geography (Remember level); 2. Explain interactions between territorial development, the environment, and active citizenship (Understand level); 3. Apply geographical tools to critically analyse tourism and territorial contexts (Apply level); 4. Analyse socio-spatial dynamics in industrialised and deindustrialised territories through the lens of sustainability (Analyse level); 5. Evaluate tourism policies and practices in terms of environmental justice and social cohesion (Evaluate level); 6. Design research and educational practices on the value of geographical knowledge (Create level). Professor Albanese is available for meetings via Microsoft Teams by appointment: ve.albanese@uninsubria.it
Degrees
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