Program Overview

Unit Overview

The unit TOU232 - Festivals and Events is an archived unit. Please refer to the end date.

Offerings

The unit is offered in various modes and locations, including:

• KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-MIXEDMODE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TJA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Mixed Mode
  • Start year: 2027
  • End year: 2027
  • Self enrol: No
• KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-MIXEDMODE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TMA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Mixed Mode
  • Start year: 2026
  • End year: 2026
  • Self enrol: No
• KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-MIXEDMODE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TMA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Mixed Mode
  • Start year: 2028
  • End year: 2028
  • Self enrol: No
• KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-MIXEDMODE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TSA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Mixed Mode
  • Start year: 2025
  • End year: 2025
  • Self enrol: No
• KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-MIXEDMODE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TSA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Mixed Mode
  • Start year: 2027
  • End year: 2027
  • Self enrol: No
• MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Semester 1-S1
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Face to Face
  • Start year: 2025
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Semester 1-S1
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Online Flexible
  • Start year: 2025
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: Yes

Requisites

Exclusion

• TOU212
• 4 cp
• Festivals and Events

Learning Outcomes

1. Apply theoretical frameworks to plan, manage and evaluate local and global events.
2. Research and analyse a range of events using a multi-disciplinary approach.
3. Identify and analyse the impacts of the various elements of an event in the context of a sustainability approach, including:

• host communities
• the economy
• the environment
• the participants and other stakeholders

4. Communicate and collaborate effectively in verbal and written forms that are appropriate for academic audiences and within event planning and management contexts.

Unit Content

The unit content includes the following topics:

1. Introduction to event studies
2. The world of planned events
3. The event experience and meanings
4. Event design
5. Antecedents and decision-making
6. Planning and management of events (part 1)
7. Planning and management of events (part 2)
8. Impacts and outcomes of events
9. Events and public policy (part 1)
10. Events and public policy (part 2)
11. The futures of events and event research
12. Conclusion and exam preparation

Unit Details

• Unit version: 27
• Version start date: 01/09/2025
• End date: 31/08/2025
• Owning college: College of Law, Arts and Social Sciences
• Owning school: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
• Credit points: 3