Hospitality Business Management
UCAS Code: N220
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Access to HE Diploma
112 UCAS tariff points from International Baccalaureate qualifications.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
UCAS Tariff
from a combination of Level 3 qualifications.
About this course
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**Why Hospitality Business Management?
Dynamic, fast paced and international, the hospitality industry is a thriving business sector offering you plenty of exciting career opportunities. This course is designed to prepare you for a management career in world-class hotels, country clubs, theme parks, leisure centres, exhibition venues or catering services.**
The course is designed around what the hospitality industry wants, ensuring that you are in the best possible position to go directly into challenging and rewarding positions within multinational organisations nationally or globally.
How will you learn?
You will learn through practical application and creatively delivered lectures, workshops, seminars and group work sessions.
- We offer field trips and a placement year to give you the chance to work in hospitality during your studies
- You’ll be taught by lecturers who have experience in the industry, who’ll help you explore areas of finance, marketing, human resources and operations management alongside hospitality specific options such as venue selection, contracts, health and safety, licensing, public safety and security alongside principles of strategic management and how it is applied to industry practice
- You could also study how to minimise risks, how to get sponsorship and how to fund events. And we’ll look at the technology that companies use in staging and marketing events too
- During your studies we’ll give you the opportunity to take a placement with a business, either in the UK or abroad. Previous students have undertaken placements in companies like Marriott, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Hilton, White Lodgings, De Vere and Park Plaza as well as Greenwich Country Club in Connecticut, Broken Sound Club in Florida and Ovolo in Hong Kong
What subjects will you cover?
You’ll explore subjects such as Markets and Marketing, Events Catering, Wedding Business Management, Consumer Behaviour and Experiential Marketing, Hospitality Operational Analysis, Food, Culture and Society and Creativity and Innovation.
Modules
Year 1 includes fundamental management modules
Core modules:
Markets and Marketing
Behavioural Approaches to Work and Society
Professional Skills and Finance
Events Catering
Option modules:
Choose one from a list which may include:
Fundamentals of Tourism
Wedding Business Management
Or, Modern Language
Two options from a variety of modern foreign language modules can be chosen from the available range and entry levels appropriate to the student’s prior experience and knowledge. We currently offer French, German, and Spanish.
Year 2 builds on the core subjects and includes more specialised areas, all invaluable within the hospitality industry. We also offer the Level 1 award in wines, provided by the Wine and Spirit Education Trust. You’ll explore the main types and styles of wine through sight, smell and taste, while also gaining the basic skills to describe wines accurately, and make food and wine pairings. Upon successful completion you’ll also receive a WSET certificate.
Core modules:
Consumer Behaviour and Experiential Marketing
Human Resource Management for Hospitality Management
Food, Culture and Society
Management Theory and Practice for Hospitality, Travel and Tourism Industries
Small Business Enterprise and Planning
Option modules:
Choose one from a list which may include:
Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibition Management
Special Interest Tourism
Or, Modern Language
Two options from a variety of modern foreign language modules can be chosen from the available range and entry levels appropriate to the student’s prior experience and knowledge. We currently offer French, German, and Spanish.
Year 3 (optional placement year)
Final year supports the knowledge and experience gained in previous years with modules designed to develop a strategic perspective of hospitality management alongside detailed research skills.
Core modules:
Research Methods and Hospitality Project
Strategic Management for the Hospitality, Travel and Tourism Industries
Management of Organisations for the Hospitality Industry
Hospitality Operational Analysis
Option modules:
Choose one from a list which may include:
International HRM for the Hospitality Industry
Sustainable Tourism
Creativity and Innovation
Or, Modern Language
Two options from a variety of modern foreign language modules can be chosen from the available range and entry levels appropriate to the student’s prior experience and knowledge. We currently offer French, German, and Spanish.
Assessment methods
Assessment will include exams, oral presentations, individual or group essays or reports, case studies, in-class tests, peer assessment, individual reflective learning portfolios, time constrained assignments, group projects and management and marketing projects or dissertations for final year students.
Your module specification/course handbook will provide full details of the assessment criteria applying to your course.
Tuition fees
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Extra funding
Please see our website for full details of the scholarship http://www.hud.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees-and-finance/undergraduate-scholarships/
The Uni
University of Huddersfield
Logistics, Operations, Hospitality and Marketing (BDLOHM)
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