This syllabus is subject to revision as necessary at any time during the semester

GGR 376
Regional Geography of Tourism and Recreation
Spring 2009 Syllabus

If you enroll in this class after the first day of the semester, please contact the Instructor and ask to be placed into a Discussion Group.

Click Here for special requirements for students who Registered AFTER the First Assignment is Due

General Information

GGR 376 - Regional Geography of Tourism and Recreation (3 units)
Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Dr. Alan A. Lew (Alan.Lew {at} nau.edu)
Office Location: SBS West (Bldg 70), Room 230
Office Hours: Tue 12:30-2:30pm, Thu 12:00am-2pm, and by appointment
Mailing Address: Dept. of Geography, Planning & Recreation, NAU Box 15016, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5016
Tel: 928-523-6567 (office); 928-523-2650 (dept.); Fax: 928-523-2275 (attn: Dr Lew); Skype: alanalew

COURSE FORMAT: 100% online using Blackboard-Vista - The Class Homepage is http://vista.nau.edu
You must log in using your NAU Dana or Jan account. You should bookmark this website.

• Registered students will not be able to access the Bb-Vista version of this class (or any other class) until the First Day of Classes of the Term
  
  
• If you Register for the class AFTER the FIRST ASSIGNMENT is Due - Click Here

AUDIO and VIDEO PODCASTS

Audio and video presentations by the Instructor will be available in Blackboard-Vista (using Elluminate, and maybe Wimba). Audio files may also be available in Apple iTunes U at: GGR 376 on iTunes. This is new and accessible to the general public.

EMAIL POLICY:

Prior to the first day of classes, and after the last day of classes (of Finals Week), correspondence should be sent to the class Professor at the email address above.

All Correspondence starting the First Day of Classes must take place either through the Blackboard-Vista website (http://vista.nau.edu) or through the Ning.com class discussion website.

• Outside of Bb-Vista and Ning.com, please use your DANA or JAN account (nau.edu) to send email message. These are the official and only acceptable email servers for all NAU email correspondence. Use of non-Dana or Jan email accounts will not be responded to.
  
  
• To Send an Email from Bb-Vista: Click On MAIL on the left sidebar menu; Click on CREATE MESSAGE; Click on BROWSE FOR RECIPIENTS and then click on either your Instructor's or Professor's name, or on All Instructors. click on SAVE; Compose your message; then SEND it.
  
  
• Please check your email every time you log into Bb-Vista (this may seem obvious, but you would be surprised what student tell me).
  

All Written Assignments must be submitted through Bb-Vista or Ning.com (depending on the assignment instructions). Any assignment emailed outside of Bb-Vista or Ning.com will be ignored. Contact the NAU Help Desk (see below) if you cannot send an email or an assignment within Vista.

Blackboard-Vista HELP: If you are having PROBLEMS WITH Blackboard-Vista...

FIRST: Contact the NAU Help Desk as soon as you encounter a problem that, if not resolved, will result in a loss of points.

• Write Down the NAME of the person you are speaking with, the TIME that you are talking to them, WHAT THEY SAID to try and resolve the problem, or not.

SECOND: If your assignment will still be late, then contact your instructor as soon as you have finished talking to the Help Desk and let them know what is going on, and so they have a record of when you attempted to submit the assignment.

• Clearly describe what the problem was, when it took place, and what you did to try and fix it.
• Include the NAME of the Help Desk person you spoke with, the TIME and DAY that you called the Help Desk, and What the Help Desk person said.
  

Contact the NAU Academic Computing Help Desk at:
Flagstaff: 523-9294
Toll free: 1-888-520-7215
On the web: http://www4.nau.edu/achd/
Via e-mail: help@dana.ucc.nau.edu

Contact the NAU Academic Computing (Student/Dana) Help Desk for ALL Technical Questions about Blackboard and your Computer.

• For a comprehensive list of resources available to web students please visit: http://www.distance.nau.edu/guide/student_resources.aspx

NING.COM HELP

Ning.com tends to work very well. I have had one student in the past year and a half experience a problem in not being able to post messages on the site.(For that student it was a firewall issue, fixed by either adding ning.com to trusted sites or turning the firewall off.) If you encounter this or similar problems with Ning.com, please go to the Ning Help Center at <http://help.ning.com/>. Go to the bottom where it says: "Can't find what you're looking for on the Help Center? Send us your question." and tell them your problem.They will help you resolve it.

• If your firewall is blocking Ning.com, you will need to turn off your firewall (which may be part of your virus software). After you do that, you should turn on the "Windows Firewall" (in the MS Windows security Center). There is no conflict between Ning.com and the Windows Firewall, and it is better than not have any at all.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: 
This class will cover major tourism and recreation issues on a global scale and how they apply to in different regions of the world.  The class takes a geographical perspective, which includes relationships between physical (geology, climate, vegetation) and cultural (historical, cultural, economic) aspects of places around the globe.

• Prerequisites: None, other than the ability to use a Web-browser and E-mail.
  

COURSE GOAL: 
Students taking this course will develop an appreciation of the global nature of tourism, and the geographical impacts of tourism in different regions of the world.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: By the end of the term, students will be able to...
    1- Define the fields of tourism and recreation from a social science perspective, with particular attention to their relationship to geography.
    2- Understand why people participate in tourism and recreation activities, and how this knowledge has practical value for understanding the world we live in.
    3- Describe the human and physical geography, and the major tourism and recreation attractions in different regions of the world.
    4- Discuss the impacts of tourism and recreation development across the globe, and how are they managed.

1. Good familiarity with personal computers, the Internet and World Wide Web.
2. Ability to use a word processor, such as Microsoft Word, which can be found in all of the NAU computer labs.
3. Access to the WWW from a computer that meets the Blackboard-Vista System Requirements.
• On the Blackboard-Vista login page is a link to Check Your Browser. Click on that link. All Checks Must Be GREEN. If any are Red, you must fix them. If you do not know how, call the NAU Student Help Desk.
4. Your computer must be able to play MP3 audio files, which includes speakers or headphones of some kind.
• Alternatively, you may be able to get by with an mp3 player of some kind -- though be warned that you must know how to download and play files on it, may be at a disadvantage with some video files.
5. Ability to devote an average of 7 to 9 hours a week to this class (this is based on the fact that a full-time load of 15 credit hours is roughly equivalent to 40 to 45 hours of work a week)

Click Here for special requirements for students who Registered AFTER the First Assignment is Due.

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS

World Geography of Travel and Tourism: A Regional Approach - by Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall and Dallen J. Timothy - Butterworth-Heinemann-Elsevier - (2008) - ISBN: 978-0-7506-7978-7.

• You are expected to have this book by the First Week of class. Please do what you can to get this books as soon as possible. I will not accept any excuses for not having this book when it is required for an assignment.

OPTIONAL: A good atlas with lots of Thematic Maps is highly recommended. A thematic map is one that shows special topics, such as population, climate, coal mining, vegetation, income, language and ethnicity.

• Goodes World Atlas - This is the most popular university-level atlas. This book is not available at the NAU Bookstore. Instead, you would need to purchase it from other sources. You can try a textbook meta search engine, like Chambal or AddAll or BestBookBuys or BookHQ or CampusBooks4Less.
  
  
• Alternatively, you can use an online atlas. I created this source for links to some of the most useful online atlases, maps and related material: http://hubpages.com/hub/World_Atlas

CLASS SCHEDULE & WORKLOAD:

Click Here to view an overview of the Class Schedule (subject to revisions).

The Official Course Schedule is kept in the CALENDAR link within Vista. Note that you can also add your own, private, entries into the Vista Calendar. You should check the Calendar daily (as well as your Vista email) to make sure that you are getting your assignments done.

• If you Register for the class AFTER the FIRST ASSIGNMENT is Due - Click Here

You will mostly be working on your own in the class and you will be entirely responsible for your own work. This class requires an enormous amount of SELF DISCIPLINE. To consider whether or not you should continue with the class, it is recommended that you read: Taking Planning Education to the World: Online Teaching at NAU

All Assignments have specified due dates and times. Please note that these are all Arizona Standard Time. If you live in a different time zone, you must compensate for the difference.

CLASS WORKLOAD

The Arizona Board of Regents Contact Hour Policy (ABOR Handbook, 2-206, Academic Credit) states: "an hour of work is the equivalent of 50 minutes of class time . . . at least 15 contact hours or recitation, lecture, testing or evaluation, seminar, or colloquium as well as a minimum of 30 hours of student homework is required for each unit of credit."

The interpretation of this policy is that for every credit hour, a student should expect, on average, to do a minimum of three hours of work per week. A three credit hour class should average 9 hours of work per week over the semester.

First 3 Weeks of Class

There is very little due in the first 2.5 weeks of this class. The reason is because there tends to be a lot of adding and dropping in Liberal Studies classes like this during the first three weeks. In addition, a few students always have a problem getting their textbooks (atlas)!

If you enroll in this class from the first day of the semester, you are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to get started on the assignments now and to try and stay 1 WEEK AHEAD on all of the assignments (i.e., finish them 1 week before they are due). By doing this, you will have insurance in case an emergency arises and you cannot work on the class for a week.

If you enroll in this class late, you better get your book and get started on the assignments ASAP!

Bb-Vista Who's Online Chat

If you have a question and would like a more instance response, then click on the "Who's Online" link in Bb-Vista. If I show up on the list, then click on me to invite me to a chat session. Please note, however, that my computer is on most of the day and even though I may be logged in to Bb-Vista, I may not be anywhere near my computer.

PODCASTS

(What is a podcast?) Dr. Lew did a series of podcasts in the Fall 2005 Semester that roughly followed this class. Links to those podcasts appear in the class assignments and readings. Transcriptions are also available for most of them. You can consider these podcasts as lectures, though they are not specifically focused on this class only, and they are one year old. Each podcast is about 30 minutes long (16mb in size) and includes news items (from last year) related to tourism. Some of them are Required, while others are not. Those that are not required are still highly recommended as additional background material for the assignments.

In addition, there are other audio podcast files that are related to topics in the class that will be linked to the assignments. Most of these will not have transcripts.

You will be able to access the podcasts either through the class Learning Module in one of three ways:

1. Wimba Voice Board - will open an audio player in Bb-Vista - however, this tool will not play anything longer than 10 minutes, so some files may be in two parts, or may not be there at all.
2. iTunes U - will open iTunesU on your computer. This requires that you have iTunes installed on your computer, which can be synced with an iPod. All of the shorter (less than 10 minute) audio files will also be available on iTunesU, along with a few (but not many) longer audio files.
3. Both Wimba Board and iTunesU can be used to download files to a computer and an mp3 player.

Dr. Lew does two travel and tourism related podcasts. You can find both of these these on his blog at http://TravelGeography.info

ASSIGNMENTS

POLICIES:

1. ALL ASSIGNMENT ARE ACCESSED through the LEARNING MODULES in Bb-Vista.
2. ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION VERIFICATION: You are responsible for verifying that your assignment was properly submitted.
   • For assignments that are posted in Bb-Vista, you must Reload/Refresh your screen to check that the assignment is indeed posted for others to see. (Click on the Refresh or Reload button on your browser.)
   • For assignments that are e-mailed to your Professor, you are required to check your Mail OUTBOX to verify that it was sent to the correct person.
   • If there is a problem in the posting of a points for an assignment, you must notify your Professor in a timely manner (within 10 days of when the points should be posted). If you wait beyond 10 days, you will receive fewer points. If you wait until the end of the class term, you may receive 0 points.
     • Note that most points will be posted within 1 week after the assignment was due.
       
       
3. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS
   • ALL WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS, INCLUDING THOSE POSTED IN THE DISCUSSION AREA OF Vista, WILL BE CONSIDERED LATE IF RECEIVED AFTER 11:59 P.M. ON THEIR DATE DUE.
     • Written Assignments generally include the Region Assignments and the Issue Assignments.
       
       
   • LATE WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT POLICY: 15 points will be deducted for each day that an assignment is late. Late assignments will not be accepted after the points reach 0 (this is 7 days for a 100 point assignment, and 3 days for a 50 point assignment).
     • When points are shared between a Written paper and a Blog post, they will be deducted in proportion to the points for each part of the assignment.
     • You are also less likely to receive an immediate response to your assignment if it is late, since the class needs to move on and not as much time can be devoted to late assignments.
     
     
   • Submissions outside of Bb-Vista and Ning.com will be ignored.
   • Please note that Due Dates and Times are all Arizona Standard Time. If you live in a different time zone, you must compensate for the difference.
     
     
4. QUIZZES and EXAMS
• QUIZZES and EXAMS ARE ALL DUE AT 11:59 p.m. ON THE DATE DUE. You will NOT be able to take the quiz after that time.
• You MUST get 30 Points (100%) on the Class Intro & Syllabus Quiz before you will be able to See and Take the Next Quiz/Exam in the class. You can retake the Syllabus Quiz as often as you like until you get 100% on it.
  
  
5. LATE ASSIGNMENT & MAKE UPS - Both Written Assignments & Quizzes/Exams
   
   
   • Requests for make up assignments, both written assignments and quizzes, will only be allowed for reasons beyond the control of the student. In addition, you must provide:
   1. A clear and complete explanation of the reason the assignment is late, including why the assignment could not have been submitted before the problem arose;
   • Note that waiting until the last few hours before a quiz or an assignment is due and then running into a personal problem will not be considered an acceptable reason for why the assignment is late.
     • Note that NAU Computer Server problems are not your personal problems, and are therefore acceptable reasons for a late assignment. Your personal computer problems are note acceptable.
       • PLEASE BACK UP YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER'S HARD DRIVE ON A REGULAR BASIS.
   2. Written proof, such as a letter from a doctor, minister or funeral home, or a letter from the NAU Dean of Students (or the Associate Dean of Students), supporting your justification
   • The Instructor Mailing address and Fax number are at the top of this syllabus.
   • You will receive less credit if you could have done the assignment before the problem arose.
   • See the section on Extra Credit (below) if late assignments become a problem for you.
     

ASSIGNMENT TYPES:

• 1 - GGR376.NING.COM DISCUSSION FORUM (10 Points each): You will be required to post at least one item or comment each week (starting with Week 2 and ending with Week 15) on the GGR376.Ning.com website.
  • These posting can be posted on any day between Sunday and Saturday of the week they are due.
    • They must be done during the associated week of the semester. They cannot be done earlier (before Sunday when they are due), and they will not count if they are done late (after Saturday when they are due).
  • IMPORTANT: You will receive an invitation to the Ning.com website after the first day of classes. If you do not receive this, or if you add the class at a later date, then please email your instructor as soon as possible to request, or re-request, an invitation.
  • The Ning.com website is much more feature rich than the discussion forum in Bb-Vista, which is why it is used in this class. The purpose of these postings is to relate the more academic and theoretical class material and assignments to current issues in tourism and geography around the world, as well as to your personal experiences and perceptions.
    
    
• 2 - CLASS INTRO & SYLLABUS QUIZ (30 Points): You MUST get 30 Points (100%) on the Class Intro & Syllabus Quiz before you will be able to SEE and TAKE the Module 1 Concept Quiz. You can retake the Syllabus Quiz as often as you like until you get 100% on it.
  
  
  • Similarly, you will not be able to see and take the Module 2 Quiz until after you have taken the Module 1 Quiz, and you will not be able to see and take the Module 3 Quiz until after you have taken the Module 2 Quiz. These restrictions do not apply to the Midterm & Final Quizzes.
    
    
• 3 - CONCEPT & REGION READING QUIZZES (40 points each): The first three Modules each has a Conceptual Reading Quiz, and all four Modules has a Regional Reading Quiz -- for a total of 7 Quizzes. The quizzes will be taken and submitted in Bb-Vista. You will have three attempts at each quiz and your highest score of the two attempts will be recorded. Questions are randomly selected from a larger database, and will vary between each attempt.
  
  • You will not be given the answers to questions you missed on the quizzes. Some classes will give you the answers when you finish the quiz, but this one does not. Students typically do not like this policy. This is my response:
    
    • Not giving students the answer to questions that they missed forces them to go back to the material and find the answer. It adds an additional element of rigor to the class. If, after trying, the you cannot find the answer, or are confused or unsure about the question or answer, then they can email me. I will often respond with some clues to help find the answer. Occasionally I will confirm that an answer is correct. I will normally not give the answer outright. This type of assistance will not be provided while a quiz is open to other students.
  • QUIZ RETAKE WEEK
    • Because this is a somewhat quiz-intensive course, you will be allowed to make-up or retake one quiz during the Quiz Retake Week. You may retake the quiz to try to bring up a low score or to make up a quiz that you missed.
      • If you are retaking the quiz, you will be allowed to take the quiz two times because I will keep your highest score quiz from your first attempt.
      • If you are making up a missed quiz, then you will be allowed to take the quiz three times.
    • The Quiz Retake Week is the week before the Final Exam becomes available. This is indicated in the Bb-Vista Calendar.
    • IMPORTANT: To participate, you must inform the instructor of which quiz that you want to take by the FRIDAY prior to the start of the Quiz Retake Week.
      
      
• 4 - MIDTERM and FINAL REVIEW EXAMS (100 points each):
  • The Midterm and Final Exams will consist of questions from the same database as used for the Quizzes. This means that you will have seen some (most?) of the questions before, but not all of them.
  • You will have two attempts at each quiz and your highest score of the two attempts will be recorded.
  • The Final Exam will only cover material in the second half of the class (after the Midterm Exam).
  • Like the Module Quizzes, you will have two attempts at each of these Review Quizzes and the highest score will be recorded.
    
    
• 5 - WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS (100 points each): For this class, the world is divided into four regions. You will have a similar assignment for each region, with some variation. This is a written assignment, requiring you to learn about the Region, its tourism and recreation resources, and how these relate to the Conceptual readings, and draw in one major topic of current global interest (such as climate change). The Written Assignment is different every semester. Because of this, I often need to revise the assignment after the first and second attempts. Please be patient with this process.
  
  
  • You have three weeks to work on each of these written assignments. They comprise a major part of your grade for this class. I strongly recommend that you make use of those three weeks and not wait until the last minute to do this assignment.
    
    
• 6 - CHECKINS (10 points each): You are required to Check-In three times during the term (at the end of the first three modules) by the due dates listed in the Calendar. The Check-In should include:

• (1) What is working especially well for you in the class.
• (2) What is NOT working for you in this class; and
• (3) Any initial suggestions for how we (you and I together) can begin to improve what is not working.
• Additional questions may be added from time to time.
  
  
• The Checkin is submitted by clicking on the Checkin link in the Learning Modules (All Assignments).
• The Checkin can be submitted anytime within 1 week prior to its due date. Do Not send it sooner than 1 week before the due date. No points are give for early or late Check-ins.
  
  The purpose of these Checkins is to prevent small problems from becoming major problems. It is perfectly acceptable to simply say that "everything is OK" and leave it at that -- just so long as you send something. Silence from you is an indicator that something is wrong and you may be headed for trouble in this class.

TurnItIn

Written Assignments will use the Turnitin Service, which is intended to enhance student writing abilities.

• When you turn your paper in, you will be given an Originality Report (or score - Red is not good), which indicates the degree to which Turn-it-in "thinks" your paper is original and not composed of copied material from other sources or students.
• This is not a perfect evaluation. Block quotes that are fully references will be erroneously tagged as plagiarism. These are not really a problem, as the Instructor or Teaching Assistant will manually assess each student's paper and will ignore these when determining your grade.
• However, if you have copied material without properly referencing the original sources, you will not get credit for those parts of your paper. If plagiarism is a significant problem, then you will receive 0 points for the assignment.
  

You will be able to view the problem areas and resubmit your paper at any time prior to the due date and time.

• The ultimate goal, is for you to turn in the best paper possible for the written assignments. Turn-it-in helps you to avoid plagiarism -- which has become an increasing problem in our current information economy. By doing so, it forces you to write more personally, creatively and with deeper consideration of the issues.
  

All papers that are turned in through the Turn-it-in folder will be permanently logged into the Turn-it-in website. The paper will be associated with this class and with the names of your Instructor and Professor. The paper will not be viewable by anyone without express permission of the Professor and Instructor of this class. The paper will be used for originality rankings for other papers that are submitted through Turn-it-in.

• Click Here for the NAU Cline Library page on Plagiarism and Academic Integrity.

Turnitin FORMATTING - Turnitin does a fairly good job at keeping the general formatting of your paper (for grading purposes). Please note, however, that if you look at your paper immediately after submitting it, it will not show almost no formatting at all. It can sometimes take several hours before the paper is processed and the good-looking version shows up.

COMMENTS on Turnitin Assignments can be found by opening your paper in Blackboard-Vista, then looking for one or more little blue buttons (or bubbles) somewhere on your paper. Click on a blue button and a window will open with comments from the assignment's grader.

GRADING

There will be:

• 1 Class Intro & Syllabus Quiz = 30 points
• 13 Discussion Postings at 10 points each = 130 points
• 1 Discussion Posting at 10 points = 10 points
• 4 Concept Quizzes at 40 points each = 160 points
• 4 Regional Quizzes at 40 points each = 160 points
• 2 Exams (Midterm + Final) at 100 points each = 200 points
• 4 Written Assignments at 100 points each = 400 points
• 3 Checkins at 10 points each = 30 points

TOTAL = 1130 Points*

• To Receive an 'A' = 90% (Minimum 1017* points)
• To Receive a 'B' = 80% (Minimum 904* points)
• To Receive a 'C' = 70% (Minimum 791* points)
• To Receive a 'D' = 60% (Minimum 678* points)
• 'F' = Below 60% (Below 678* points)

* The Total Points are subject to change as the semester progresses. The final grade is based on the % received of the final points in the class.

The 'A' grade is intended for students who consistently submit work that is both on time and superior to the majority of the rest of the class. You need to demonstrate mastery of the subject matter through the quality and thoughtfulness of your answers. Between 10% and 20% of the class will likely receive an 'A'. (It could be more or less than this, depending on the makeup of the class.)

WARNING: Keep all of the work that you receive points for in this (and all of your classes)! If there is ever a discrepancy between what is recorded in the Grade book and what you think you received, the Grade book will only be changed if you have your original work.

The Total Grade Points and Percentage Grading Breakdown are subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances that may affect the total points. Final grades will be based on the percentages above as they apply to the total final points at the end of the semester.

All Written Assignment Points will be posted in Vista about a week after they are submitted. Late assignments will take about two weeks (or more) to be graded. Points for Quizzes and Exams will generally be posted as soon as the quiz is completed.

EXTRA CREDIT

Your assignments are expected to be well written and checked for spelling and grammatical errors.

The web pages for this course should be the same -- though human error can occur. To help me maintain the class web pages as best as I can, you will receive 1 point for each typo or spelling error that you find in the textbook or assignment instructions and 2 points for each error that you find in the Quizzes and Exams. Only the First Person to find the error and inform the Instructor of it will receive these points (yes, you should email Dr. Lew directly if you find something). You need to be clear as to where the problem is and what it is. And the error needs to be an obvious one, and not subject to semantic debate.

• These points will be placed in an Extra Credit column in the Grade book.
  
• The following words will often be tagged as typos in a spell checker. For this class, these are considered correct spellings: Checkin, Webpage, Website, Gradebook.
• Some international cities and countries have more than one correct spelling, both of which may be encountered in this class. Similarly, many scientific terms, commonly used in the physical and social sciences, will not be in most spell checkers. Before submitting these as potential typos, please do a more general search of the WWW to see if they are commonly used in academic publication.
• Some of the pages on the class website are developed by either Vista or NAU, and not by Dr. Lew. These pages also have typos on them, but cannot be fix by Dr. Lew. In addition, Bb-Vista Announcement, Email messages, and Discussion Forum items cannot be corrected once they are posted. With all of these you will not receive extra credit for pointing out typos. Extra Credit is only available for pages that can be fixed and, in this class only, for the Dr. Lew's textbook.
  
  
• If you find a Typo in a quiz, please provide:
  1. The Quiz Number - because this class moves so fast, I cannot tell which quiz the problem is in unless you tell me.
  2. The attempt (first or second) that the typo was in. "Question 15" on the first attempt is not the same as "Question 15" on the second attempt.
  3. Give me more than just one word. A whole sentence is best.
• For Typos in the Chapter Reading and Issue Instructions:
  • Give me more than just one word. A whole sentence is best. I have to search the quiz to find the typo, and more words are helpful.

GEOGRAPHY & TOURISM EVENTS

You can earn extra credit in this class by attending up to four outside events or activities (mostly public meetings and lectures) that are related to the class and writing a short report on the event and what you learned from it. Each report is worth up to 25 points and you may do no more than one report in one week. The report should be between 500 an 1000 words in length (about 1 to 2 pages).

• You may only request and submit one Extra Credit Event per week.
• No Event Extra Credit papers will be accepted after the last day of the regular semester. This is the Friday before Final Exam Week.
• I may edit what you have written and then post it on the class discussion list for other students to read.

Events and Activities Must Be Approved in Advance. The Instructor may post announcements on the class announcement or email list of campus and community events that qualify - those that are posted will be automatically approved. You may also suggest events, especially those outside of the Flagstaff area. The event or activity must take place during the semester that you are taking this class, and before the last week of classes. If you have any ideas for events (or other activities) that you would like to do, just get my approval -- preferably at least a week in advance.

The following examples come from a previous semester on the Arizona Daily Sun website and the NAU events calendar website. All of these would worked, as would have other events like them. The topic should relate to tourism issues covered in this class (which are given in parentheses below).

• Haunted Flagstaff Walking Tour (heritage and special interest tourism)
• Tours of Riordan Mansion (heritage tourism)
• West African Drum Class (cultural tourism)
• Ain’t It Purty”: Tourist Impressions of Grand Canyon (tourist demand/experiences)
• Canyon Experiences: Sublime to Silly (about Grand Canyon river trips) (tourist demand/experiences)
• River, Canyon and Dam Slide Show (USGS) (Physical geography in the creation of place/destination images; Tourism supply)
• Downtown Flagstaff Accessibility Audit (Urban design and built landscape; Tourism supply)
  

Submission: Event papers should be written in MS Word. At the top of the paper, please include (1) your name, (2) submission date, (3) the title, name of the presenter, date, time and place of the presentation your attended, and (4) the word count of your paper. Submitted this paper to your instructor by email through Blackboard-Vista.

There are No Other Extra Credit Options for this Class

All students are treated the same, so any extra credit options that are adopted are only those that would be available to ALL students. (Do not ask for a special extra credit assignment that applies to you alone.)

OTHER POLICIES

FINISHING THE CLASS EARLY

Web-based students often ask about finishing the class early. Because not all assignments will be posted early, this is generally not possible. In addition, the Final Review Assignment will not be posted until the last week of classes. It may be possible (in some semesters) to finish all assignments, except the Final Review Assignment, a few weeks before the end of the semester. At the most only one student ever actually does this in any semester.

INCOMPLETES

Incompletes will not be given without written recommendation by the Dean of Students.

• Please note that the university policy for an incomplete is that it is only granted to students who have completed most of the work for the class and are only tardy on a couple of assignments that would enable them to pass the class. In addition, the reason for not completing the tardy assignments must be beyond the student's control. Finally, the policy states that "After a grade is submitted to the Registrar, the grade may not be changed as the result of the addition of extra credit work not available to all students in the course and/or work not outlined in the syllabus or an addendum which was distributed during the semester."
• You must have completed at least 75% of the class to be considered to qualify for an Incomplete in this class.
• Incompletes must be requested and an incomplete contract form must be approved by the class professor.
• Note that many faculty at NAU have found that only 20% of students who take an Incomplete actually finish their classes successfully.

Retaking the Class to Raise Your Grade

If you are not receiving the grade that you prefer toward the end of the semester, then the recommended action is to retake the class in another semester and apply for a Grade Replacement using this form: MS Word, .PDF - the form must be submitted at the time that you register for the class the second time. Note that the assignments will probably be different the second time that you take the class.

• Tips for Success in this Class
  
  

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY is a form of misconduct that is subject to disciplinary action under the Student Code of Conduct and includes the following.

• Plagiarism: any attempt to knowingly or deliberately pass off other's work as your own.
• Cheating: any attempt to gain an unfair advantage over one's fellow students.
• Fabrication: any attempt to present information that is not true when the author knows the information presented is false.
• Fraud: any attempt to deceive an instructor or administrative officer of the university.
• Facilitating Academic Dishonesty: any attempt to assist an act of academic dishonesty by another individual.

You are expected to do all of the work yourself, and to properly reference any material that you use from other sources using standard referencing systems used in the social and physical sciences. If you need help with this, click here.

DO NOT COPY ANOTHER STUDENT’S WORK, even in part. DO NOT GIVE YOUR PAPER TO ANOTHER STUDENT TO TURN IN AS THEIR WORK.

• If you do either of these, at a minimum you will receive zero (0) points for the assignment AND a number of points equal to that of the assignment will be further deducted from your total. For example, for a 100 point assignment, you will get 0 for the assignment, and 100 points will be further deducted from your total.
• In addition, and you may be dismissed entirely from this class.
  

DO NOT COPY SOMETHING FROM ANY OTHER SOURCE WITHOUT A COMPLETE REFERENCE TO ITS ORIGINAL AUTHOR (Author, Title, Year, Publisher, Page numbers, and Access date and URL for Web material). Points will be deducted from assignments if you do not properly reference your sources. Using quotations from other sources should be kept to a minimum and only used where relevant..

• The following WWW site on doing research and avoiding electronic plagiarism is recommended reading for anyone doing research on the WWW: http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/internet/research.htm