Hospitality and Event Management - Associate Degree

Students gain skills that lead to success in college, employment, and life. Students should take this course in their first semester. (Pre-requisite: None.)

Explore the business environment; global business; ethics and social responsibility; types of business ownership; entrepreneurship; role of management: operations management; human resources; marketing; managing financial resources and legal issues impacting business.

Course provides an overview of the interconnectedness among careers within Business. Learn how various fields within the broader industry each play an integral role and how a personal brand fits into preparing you for your career choice. (Corequisite: 10-890-101, College 101)

Creating and editing documents, formatting and customizing documents, collaborating with others and working with reports, using tables, columns, and graphics.

Learners develop knowledge/skills in planning, organizing, writing, editing. Students will also analyze audience/purpose, use elements of research, format documents using standard guidelines, and develop critical reading skills. (Prerequisite: High school GPA greater/equal to 2.6; OR ACT Reading score greater/equal to 16 AND English greater/equal to 18; OR Next Gen Reading score greater/equal to 250 AND Writing score greater/equal to 260; OR "preparatory course(s)", contact academic advisor at 920-498-5444)

Explore the marketing environment, consumer behavior, and market segmentation and position strategies. Learn the marketing mix and create product, distribution, pricing, and promotion plans.

Explore selling as a career and the success factors in selling. Learn the consultative selling process including product/industry knowledge, approach techniques, needs assessment, product presentation and demonstration, handling objections, and closing the sale successfully to build a relationship.

Purchasing/receiving controls, storing/issuing controls, production controls, monitoring activities, sales controls, beverage controls, labor controls and financial statements.

Creating worksheets; enter data, make modifications, work with formulas and functions, create and enhance charts, manage data, transform data, conditional formatting, importing/exporting data, introduction to PivotTables and PivotCharts.

All college students, regardless of their college major, need to be able to make reasonable decisions about fiscal, environmental, and health issues that require quantitative reasoning skills. An activity based approach is used to explore numerical relationships, graphs, proportional relationships, algebraic reasoning, and problem solving using linear, exponential and other mathematical models. Students will develop conceptual and procedural tools that support the use of key mathematical concepts in a variety of contexts. This course may be used as the first of a two part sequence that ends with Quantitative Reasoning as the capstone general education math requirement. (Prerequisite: Next Gen Arith score greater/equal to 250 AND Rdg score greater/equal to 250; OR ACT Math score greater/equal to 15 AND ACT Reading score greater/equal to 16; OR prep courses-contact an academic advisor 920-498-5444).

The role of project management, developing a project proposal, demonstration of relevant software, working with project teams, sequencing tasks, charting progress, dealing with variations, budgets and resources, implementation, and assessment.

This course focuses on developing effective listening techniques and verbal and nonverbal communication skills through oral presentation, group activity, and other projects. The study of self, conflict, and cultural contexts will be explored, as well as their impact on communication. (Prerequisite: Next Gen Rdg score greater/equal to 250 AND Writing score greater/equal to 237; OR ACT Rdg score greater/equal to 16 AND English score greater/equal to 16; OR preparatory course-contact an academic advisor at 920-498-5444)

Provides comprehensive coverage of the convention/meetings industry with an in-depth review on how to successfully sell to groups and how to service the business before, during and after the sale (registration, group room blocks, convention security, the shipping, setting up/dismantling of exhibits, technology and the post-convention meeting). A review of changing demographics (especially the impact of millennials) and the increasing influence of meeting planners on a hotel's sales is researched as well. The course includes the American Hotel/Lodging Association Event Planning and Management Certification.

Food service sanitation principles of contamination/food borne illness with National Restaurant Association ServSafe Certification testing included. (Prerequisite: Acceptance in Culinary Specialist technical diploma or Culinary Management associate degree or Restaurant Management technical diploma or Hospitality Management associate degree or Baking & Pastry certificate).

An overview of catering including pricing, hiring/managing staff, marketing, planning successful events, preparing safe/attractive food as well as managing the event. (Prerequisite: Acceptance in Culinary Specialist technical diploma or Culinary Management associate degree or Restaurant Management technical diploma or Hospitality Management associate degree).

Food/beverage industry, product classifications, responsible service; bar/kitchen equipment/organization; maintaining clean/sanitary facilities; staffing, training, supervising food/beverage employees; promotions planning; budgeting/cost controls of food/beverage operations.

Lodging classification, ownership/affiliation, hotel/front office organization, equipment, reservations, registration, guest services, guest accounting, credit monitoring, check-out/settlement, night audit, management functions, room statistics, yield management, staffing.

Staffing housekeeping operations, facilities safety and security, cleaning routines, material selection, laundry operations, controlling costs in housekeeping and maintenance departments, facility systems and design.

Create professional resume and cover letter, prepare for interviews, understand interviewing techniques, participate in a mock interview, evaluate outcomes of interview, and prepare for Career Experience. (Prerequisites: 10-105-100, Careers in Business OR 10-107-117, Careers in IT OR 10-201-100, Careers In Digital Arts)

Learn the event management process, including planning, securing sponsorships, promotion execution, and evaluation of special events (entertainment, industry, meeting/convention). Students will work toward the actual staging of an event (will require time outside of the classroom setting).

This course introduces the study of diversity from a local to a global perspective using a holistic, interdisciplinary approach that encourages exploration and prepares students to work in a diverse environment. The course introduces basic diversity concepts, examines the impact of bias and power differentials among groups, explores the use of culturally responsive communication strategies, and compares forces that shape diversity in an international context. (Prerequisite: Next Gen Rdg score greater/equal to 250 AND Writing score greater/equal to 237; OR ACT Rdg score greater/equal to 16 AND English greater/equal to 15; OR 10-831-107, College Reading and Writing with a B or better.)

Front-line supervisory functions including planning, controlling, delegating, organizing, human motivation, decision-making, conflict resolution, and managing a diverse workforce.

Students will have the opportunity to explore culture, global trade, politics, global law, economic integration, global trade and investment theories, exporting, global human resource management, and corporate social responsibility.

This science of psychology course is a survey of multiple aspects of behavior and mental processes. It provides an overview of topics such as research methods, theoretical perspectives, learning, cognition, memory, motivation, emotions, personality, abnormal psychology, physiological factors, social influences, and development.. (Prerequisite: Cumulative GPA of 2.6 or greater OR satisfactory reading and writing assessment scores OR 10-831-107, College Reading and Writing 1 with "B" or better OR Corequisite: 10-831-102, English Comp Prep).

Learners will develop an understanding of cybersecurity methods, terms, and key technical concepts to identify and protect assets against attacks.

Students can select any hands on experience related to: Internship, Field Research, Service Learning, Capstone, Industry Related or International Experience. Instructor approval required. (Prerequisite: 10-105-103, Career Fundamentals)