The purposes of Guiding Heritage Tours are three-fold. First, we will explore the use of history and heritage in tourist attractions. Second, we will develop your skills as a heritage tour guide. Third, we will research a person or a place to create a tour of that place or a person. Many people, especially tourists, love history. We will investigate how to use heritage to improve the tourist experience.

1/10 Introduction and discuss syllabus. How to pick your subject.

1/17 History of Tourism: "View from the Road," 19-51; "Tours, Grand and Fashionable," 15-40; "Americans Move Outdoors," 139-183.

1/24 Research methodology. Class on 1/27 canceled for research.

1/31 The Tourist: "Introduction to Tourism," 3-19; "The Tourist Experience," 35-49; "Roles Tourists Play," 287-303. Due: Proposal for your semester project.

2/7 History and Tourism: "History and Tourism," 71-84; "Harnessing the Romance of the Past," 35-48; "Heritage Management for Heritage Tourism," 114-121. Due: bibliography for semester project.

2/14 Ethics and Heritage Tourism: "Indigenous and Colonial" 19-36; Selling the Meaning of Place," 525-557. Due: history description of chosen community or biographical sketch of person.

2/21 Living History and Public Speaking: "Living History," 3-12; "Of Pilgrims and Performance," 3-20. Due: time line of community or person.

2/28 Tour Guide Operations: "Packaging Dreams," 501-512; "Characteristics of Package Tours," MQCT, "Attracting" and "Detracting"57-80. Due: written narrative of key event of community or person.

3/6 Tour Guiding: excerpt from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 30-37. Guest lecturer: Peter Weiss.

3/13 Telling stories. Due: oral presentation of key event.

3/20 Tour Guide Management-- manners and mechanics. Due: more oral presentations.

3/27 Spring Break

4/3 Business of Guiding: MQCT, 81-102. Due: Rules of etiquette for guides.

4/10 Community study-- Santa Fe, New Mexico: "Mormon Pilgrimage and Tourism," 105-121.

4/17 Class presentations.

4/24 Class presentations.

5/1 Class presentations.

5/8 Finals Week

Guiding Heritage Tours Reader available at The Print Shop, 1114 Espanola, 647-3424.

Discussions 20%

Research reports 25%

Oral presentations 15%

Guided Tour or Living History presentation 40%

Lack of attendance will affect your final grade.

Withdrawals from this course are the responsibility of the student.

Incomplete grades will be given only if the student has passed the first half of the course and can not complete the course due to documented illness or family crisis.

Late assignments will have a grade deduction for every day that they are late.

Academic misconduct in this course will cause the student to fail the course. Please consult the Student Code of Conduct in the NMSU Student Handbook.

Students with disabilities are encouraged to self-identify their status by providing documentation to the Office of Disabled Students which will then provide recommendations to me.

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