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Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Coast

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Unit name The Business of Leisure
Unit code ZAA136
Credit points 12.5
Faculty/School University College
Discipline Applied Business
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Availability

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Learning Outcomes

  1. Define and assess the influences on changing leisure participation in society.
  2. Identify and analyse business, government, and not-for-profit activities in the leisure industry.
  3. Analyse and propose new business opportunities for the leisure industry.
  4. Reflect on and evaluate relevant behaviours and skills for the contemporary leisure industry.
  5. Apply practice and discipline-based skills and knowledge to communicate solutions to leisure industry changes

Fees

Teaching

Teaching Pattern

Blended mode: Online content, full-day workshop (x2), weekly tutorials

Assessment

AT1: Mapping Your Week of Leisure  (20%)

AT2: Leisure Asset Mapping (30%)

AT3: Leisure Opportunity Proposal (50%)

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Textbooks

Required

Veal, AJ, Darcy, S & Lynch, R, 2013, Australian Leisure, (4th ed.). Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson

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