My Career Choice - Assignment Example

Reflective Journal Assignment 3 Customer Inserts His/Her Name Customer Inserts Grade Course Customer Inserts Tutor’s Name (12, 05, 2009) Reflective Journal EXERCISE 1 – WEEK 6 Describe your career choice at this point in time. Analyse using up to 250 words what has informed your choice at this time (what lead you to make this decision?). Think back to the guest speaker you listened to in lecture in Week #5 and the chapter in Lynch and Veal on career choices. Analyse the important knowledge and skills you will need to work in your chosen field Remember to use an in-text reference for your textbook and provide the complete reference at the end by using the Department Guide. Use 100 words or less. EXERCISE 2 – Week 7 In the lecture you learned that psychology gives you the tools for identifying and exploring an individual’s motivations for leisure behaviours, how he or she thinks or feels about their leisure experiences and what sorts of needs they have. In the box below write a description (no less than 100 and no more than 250 words please) of a leisure, tourism, sport, event, and/or hospitality experience that you have had in the past month. Using your understanding of this week’s reading relate at least one of the authors’ main ideas to your own personal experience that you’ve have just described. Be sure to reference your reading. Use 100 words or less. Exercise 3 – Week 8 In the box below write a description (no less than 100 and no more than 250 words please) of a leisure, tourism, sport, event, and/ or hospitality experience you have had that you think is a good example of building social capital. This time interpret and analyse your experience described above (no less than 100 and no more than 250 words please) using the social capital concept as found in your lecture notes and defined in your textbook reading from this week (Lynch & Veal, 2006:365). You are encouraged to find at least one additional reference (journal article or book/ book chapter) that you find useful in making your argument. Remember to provide the reference. Exercise 4 – Week 10 This week you have been studying the cultural studies approach to the leisure/events/hospitality and tourism industries. Consider the video you have seen in the lecture (and which is on Learning@Griffith under Resources) and analyse the experience (using between 250-300 words) with special reference to cultural studies concepts found in your reading (e.g., subcultures, gender identity, and meaning of the experience). Ensure you reference your reading. References Crompton, JL & McKay, SL 1997, ‘Motives of visitors attending festival events,’ Annals of Tourism Research, vol.24, no.1, pp. 425-439. Kawachi, I, Kennedy, BP & Glass, R 1997, ‘Social capital and self-related health: A contextual analysis,’ American Journal of Public Health, vol.89, no.8, pp. 1187-1193. Lomas, J 1998, ‘Social capital and health: Implications for public health and epidemiology,’ Social Science & Medicine, vol.47, no.9, pp. 1181-1188. Lynch, R & Veal AJ 2006, Australian Leisure, Pearson Longman, Sydney. Ramsey, D & Ramsey, S 2003, Financial Peace Revisited, Viking Adult, USA. Woolcock, M 1998, ‘Social capital and economic development: toward a theoretical synthesis and policy framework,’ Theory and Society, vol.27, no.2, pp. 151-208. Read More