Assessment Task 2: Excursion Report
Task description
Submit an excursion report. On your own and as scheduled in thecourse time-table, you will visit a museum of your choice (e.g. Mona museum in Hobart) and present a report that critically reflects and evaluates your experiences. If permitted by the museum, take photographs and use them in your report.
You have to plan and prepare for the trip. Besides the logistics, find out the background about the museum, and draft questions you would ask yourself when you are there. Here are the guidelines for the report.
1. Provide a short and relevant background to the museum you have visited. If available, use photograph(s) you have taken on your trip.
2. Identify an exhibit or object that you appreciate, and explain why it is meaningful to you. If available, use photograph(s) to show the exhibit.
3. Would a tourist who does not have the same knowledge and experiences as you appreciate the object the same way as you?
4. What can be done to help the tourist appreciate the object in a deeper and more meaningful way?
5. Throughout the report, use theories and concepts to critically discuss the need of mediation in appreciating cultural and creative objects in tourist consumption.
Task length
Up to 2000 words & up to four pictures, excluding reference list, use at least 10 reference.
Assessment criteria
1. Clearly describe the excursion to a museum.
2. In a structured manner, critically reflect on an exhibit or object that you appreciate (positively or negatively). Explain how you interpret and appreciate the object.
3. For the same object, identify and evaluate the difficulties for tourists to comprehend and appreciate that artefact. Questions to consider include: To what extent would a tourist who do not have the same knowledge and experiences as you appreciate the object? What must be done to help that tourist appreciate it? You may speak to a tourist about her or his encounter with that object during the trip.
4. Demonstrate independent thinking by systematically apply and compare relevant concepts and theories on the mediation of cultural and creative experiences. Critically evaluate the perspectives and concepts by stating your position and defending it.