Course list

This is a list of courses requested and potentially offered for CouchSurfing University. Add to the lists if you want to see a specific course or subject, think that you may be able to offer a course yourself, or have an idea what kinds of course should or shouldn't be offered, how they may be categorized, etc.

Note: these lists are in no way binding and do not represent a commitment to offer or attend said courses.

Add to, re-arrange, categorize, and organize these lists.

Requested courses or subjects

Languages and Literature

• All languages!(obviously couchSurfing already supports this but the CS University would represent people willing and capable assisting a pupil in a deliberate and more or less structured manner. See also Sharing Language Knowledge
• Ecrivains Noirs de Langue Française (Césaire, Fanon, Damas, Senghor, etc.)
• Poetry in different languages

Arts and Crafts

• Basic carpentry and wood-working
• Basket weaving

Music

• Any musical instrument
• Apreciation of a specific musical style or genre, its defining fundamentals, variations, masters, and masterpeices(many of you are experts on a specific style or genre and have the Vinyl, 8-track, CD collection needed for proper familiarisation)

Sports, and the Human Body

• Yoga

Food

• Cooking regional delicacies
• Baking bread

Tourism

• Introduction to Tourism
• The Business of Tourism and Leisure
• Dynamics of Global Tourism
• Economics of Tourism
• Information Technology
• Tourism Management and Marketing
• Consumer Behaviour
• Human Resource Management
• International Tourism and Hospitality
• Heritage
• Strategic Management
• Research Methods
• Tourism Planning and Development
• Transport and Tourism
• Risk and Safety Management
• Festivals and Events
• Types of tourism:
  • Sports Tourism
  • Dark Tourism
  • Beach Tourism
  • Ecotourism
  • Cultural Tourism
  • Nature Tourism
  • Active Tourism
  • Pro-poor Tourism
  • Volunteer Tourism
  • ...

Design

• Industrial Design
  • Travel Gear

To be Categorized

• Bicycle assembly/repair
• Organic farming
• Go rules and strategy
• Community development
• Permaculture
• Multimedia
• Aquarium fish

Courses or subjects with a possible instructor

• English for non-native speakers (reading, writing, oral expression and comprehension for all levels)
• French for English speakers (reading, writing, oral expression and comprehension begginer through intermediate levels)

Ideas and comments

It might be easiest to start with a few simple subjects and work outward. Take regional cooking and languages, for example. There would presumably be plenty of participants and the complexity of the subject catalog would not be a problem. Even so tightly narrowed there would be alot of room for development and participation and grounds could be laid for broader development(ie a full-blown CS Uni system). In fact this might even be effective as a pair of CS groups in lieu of an interactive CS Uni system. --Metal.lunchbox 13:54, 8 November 2006 (EST)