Hotel Management Major (Bachelor of Science)

Freshman - Credits: 32

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

• ACC 175 - Financial Accounting (Cr: 3)
• ENG 111 - Critical Reading and Writing I (Cr: 3)

• Satisfies the Writing Designated Core requirement.

• ENG 112 - Critical Reading and Writing II (Cr: 3)

• Satisfies the Writing Designated Core requirement.

• HTM 101 - Foundations of Hospitality Management (Cr: 3)
• HTM 108 - Rooms Division Management (Cr: 3)
• HTM 110 - Service Management (Cr: 3)
• INT 100 - Internship I (Cr: 2)

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)

• ECN 201 - Macroeconomics (Cr: 3)

• Satisfies Global Issues General Education Requirement

• HTM 210 - Hotel Operations Practicum (Cr: 3)
• HTM 213 - Hospitality Sales and Marketing (Cr: 3)
• HTM 225 - Hospitality Management Accounting (Cr: 3)
• HTM 250 - Food and Beverage Management (Cr: 3)
• INT 200 - Internship II (Cr: 2)

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)

• HTM 302 - Hospitality Research Methods (Cr: 3)
• HTM 335 - Hotel Revenue Management (Cr: 3)
• HTM 360 - Hospitality Legal Perspectives (Cr: 3)
• HTM 374 - Hospitality Organizational Behavior (Cr: 3)

• Satisfies the Writing Designated requirement

• HTM 379 - Semester Internship Strategies (Cr: 1)

Senior - Credits: 30

• Hotel Electives  (Cr: 6)

• HTM 415 - Hospitality Strategic Management (Cr: 3)
• HTM 440 - Hotel Asset Management (Cr: 3)
• HTM 480 - Semester Internship (Cr: 12)
• HTM 489 - Senior Thesis I (Cr: 3)
• HTM 490 - Senior Thesis II (Cr: 3)

Hotel Electives

• BUS 440 - Topics in Real Estate Seminar (Cr: 3)
• HTM 140 - Culinary Arts Operations (Cr: 3)
• HTM 215 - Hospitality Purchasing and Cost Control (Cr: 3)
• HTM 310 - Hotel Events Sales and Service (Cr: 3)
• HTM 330 - Hospitality Facilities Design (Cr: 3)
• HTM 350 - Resort Management (Cr: 3)
• HTM 355 - Casino Operations (Cr: 3)
• HTM 370 - Hospitality Entrepreneurship (Cr: 3)
• HTM 400 - Contemporary Issues in Hospitality (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.