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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Hotel Management Major (Bachelor of Science)


Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 125 -126


Freshman - Credits: 32


  • Individual and Society General Education Requirement  (Cr: 3)
  • Quantitative Reasoning General Education Requirement   (Cr: 3)
  • General Education Electives  (Cr: 6)

Sophomore - Credits: 32-33


  • Literary Perspectives General Education Requirement   (Cr: 3)
  • Science and Technology General Education Requirement  (Cr: 3-4)
  • Values and Ethical Reasoning General Education Requirement  (Cr: 3)
  • Hotel Elective  (Cr: 3)
  • General Education Elective  (Cr: 3)

Junior - Credits: 31


  • Aesthetics Awareness and Creative Expression General Education Requirement  (Cr: 3)
  • World Culture General Education Requirement  (Cr: 3)
  • General Education Elective  (Cr: 3)
  • Hotel Electives  (Cr: 6)
  • Elective  (Cr: 3)

Learning Outcomes


Upon completion of the hotel program, students will:

  • Demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills associated with customer negotiation and active listening.
  • Communicate effectively in written form within the conventions of the discipline.
  • Demonstrate the critical inquiry and analysis skills needed to engage constructively in intellectual discourse within the discipline.
  • Demonstrate effective financial skills including operational hotel and restaurant ratio calculations, SWOT analyses, and management process and styles.
  • Develop the relevant technological skills used in the hotel industry.
  • Apply principles of asset management in terms of hotel ownership and real estate development. 
  • Analyze the elements of hotel revenue management in the context of optimizing the pricing model.