Events and Festivals: Contexts and Concepts
Food & Beverage
A course by
Lincoln University
This course offers advanced study of the characteristics of events and festivals and their participants, examining the social, political, cultural, economic, and technical forces influencing event and festival development.
Core skills this course teaches
Evaluate event and festival research
Evaluate the relevance and application of event and festival research to real world contexts.
Assess a critical issue
Assess a critical issue in events and festivals.
Analyse event and festival impacts
Analyse the rationale and impacts of events and festivals at various scales, from global to local, and for a range of stakeholders.
What You're Signing Up For
Events and Festivals: Contexts and Concepts provides students with advanced insight into the nature of events and festivals. The course explores their characteristics, participants, and the wide-ranging forces—social, political, cultural, economic, and technical—that impact their development. It also investigates the impacts of these events on individuals and communities from local to global contexts, equipping students to critically assess issues in event and festival management and apply research and theory to real-world scenarios.
Course Content
- Characteristics of events and festivals
- Event and festival participants
- Social, political, cultural, economic, and technical forces in event and festival development
- Impacts of events and festivals at individual, community, regional, national, and global levels
- Critical issues in events and festival management
- Application of event and festival research to real-world contexts
What sort of industry will this job lead to
Tourism
Events Management
Recreation
Future employment opportunities might be
Event Manager
Festival Coordinator
Event Researcher