YUFE Minor in Sustainable Tourism
YUFE Minors are semester-wide 30 ECTS short thematic groups of courses. Students of all YUFE universities programmes can apply for via YUFE Virtual Campus.
Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management offers a YUFE Minor „Sustainable Tourism”
The Minor is offered in winter (fall) semester and consists of:
- four (10 ECTS) of obligatory courses, including Challenge Course,
- and a set of elective courses – a student needs to select elective courses worth 20 ECTS to finish the Minor.
Obligatory courses
| Course | USOS code and link to course description | ECTS points | Class hours and forms |
| Geography of Poland: landscape, society and tourism | 2800-OG-EN-GP | 2 | 15h lectures |
| Global issues of tourism | 2800-OG-EN-GIT | 2 | 6h lecture + 9h tutorial |
| YUFE Challenge: Industrial heritage as a chance for tourism |
2800-OG-EN-IHCT | 4 | 10h lecture + 20h fieldtrip |
| Polish as a foreign language (Faculty of Humanities) | 2 | 60h tutorial |
Elective courses (2025/2026)
| Course | USOS code and link to course description | ECTS points | Class hours and forms |
| An introduction to virtual tourism | 2800-OG-EN-IVT | 2 | 15h lectures |
| Film and book tourism | 2800-OG-EN-FBT | 2 | 8h lecture + 7h fieldtrip |
| Culinary tourism – food around the world | 2800-OG-EN-CTW | 4 | 15h lecture + 8h tutorial +7h fieldtrip |
| Let’s rock – Geotourism and geoparks | 2800-OG-EN-GG | 4 | 14h lecture + 16h tutorial |
| On the rivers and lakes – secrets of water tourism | 2800-OG-EN-RLSWT | 2 | 7h lecture + 8h fieldtrip |
| Slow tourism and a city | 2800-OG-EN-STC | 2 | 7h lecture + 8h fieldtrip |
| Space tourism and its determinants | 2800-OG-EN-STD | 2 | 15h lectures |
| Bicycle in tourism and recreation | 2800-OG-EN-BITAR | 4 | 15h lectures + 15h fieldtrip |
| Forests of Poland | 2800-OG-EN-FPOL | 4 | 20h lectures + 10h fieldtrip |
| Hunting extremes: severe weather and its record in the natural environment | 2800-OG-EN-HEX | 2 | 15h lectures |