Degree Programs

Overview

The college offers a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management degree contains most of the curriculum of a business degree, but with additional material tailored to those entering the hospitality industry. While you learn the business management basics, you also study exciting and interesting subjects such as restaurant management, event planning, travel, and tourism. Students learn a wide range of useful business management skills, with a focus on hospitality management, including learning about accounting, finance, human resources management, and marketing. Major coursework emphasizes qualitative and quantitative analysis, marketing and human resources. Students work with a faculty mentor to design a series of elective courses to help them focus on individual career goals.

Additionally, students learn about the hospitality industry by completing a minimum of 800 required hours of professional work experience prior to graduation.

Learning Outcomes:

• Characteristics of Hospitable Service: Create favorable guest experiences by using professional service management techniques in a hospitality business environment. 
• Information Literacy: Locate, assess, and use a wide variety of sources methods, and tools available in a hospitality environment to communicate quantitative, qualitative and/or scientific information in the decision-making process
• Analytical Thinking: Make clear and logical decisions by organizing, analyzing, and interpreting information and formulating rational solutions in a hospitality business environment.
• Teamwork: Contribute to positive team performance in a hospitality business environment no by appraising and managing one’s team-related competencies, in particular, the knowledge, skills, and attitudes considered transportable from one team to another. 
• Leadership: Model the behaviors of effective, ethical leaders by demonstrating the fundamental principles of leadership in a hospitality business environment.

Total Credits: 120 Units

• Required Courses: 60 Units
• Major Elective Courses: 9 Units
• Unrestricted Elective Courses: 3-6 Units
• General Education Courses: 48 Units

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