Hospitality Management Courses
When you earn your bachelor's degree in Business Administration (BA) with a specialization in Hospitality Management, your curriculum may include these career-enhancing hospitality management courses:
- Foundations of Hotel Management - This course examines the lodging industry - from its traditional roots to contemporary structures - and addresses management, economics, and measurement of hotel operations, including reservation systems, staffing, security, and maintenance.
- Meetings and Events Management - In this event management course, students explore event, meeting, and convention management, one of the fastest-growing segments of the hospitality industry. Topics include sponsorship, venues, staffing, finance, exhibit coordination, contracted services, legal implications, and marketing and convention bureaus.
- Restaurant Management - Introducing operational and management practices of both startup and established restaurants, this hospitality management course explores service, customer relations, mission, marketing strategy, and menu as well as financial management in the form of pricing, budgets, cost control, payroll, fixed assets, leasing, and cash and revenue control.
- Casino Management - This hospitality management course introduces operating conditions and management responsibilities in casinos, and related properties and services. Students explore gaming history and regulations as well as modern gaming laws, controls, taxes, accounting, reporting, marketing, and the mathematics and statistics of games and casinos.
- Tourism Management - Examining the social and behavioral aspects of tourism and the structure and function of major tourism delivery systems, this hospitality management course focuses on managerial challenges and responsibilities in the tourism industry. Students analyze supply and demand for products and services, forecast demand, and explore revenue and yield management approaches.
Hospitality Management Course Requirements
To earn a Bachelor of Business Administration degree at DeVry with a specialization in Hospitality Management, you'll be required to complete 8 full-time semesters or 124 credit hours:
- 94 credit hours (about 30 courses) in your core curriculum
- 30 credit hours (about 8 courses) specific to the business information systems specialization
Although a few hospitality management courses or event management courses are worth 1 or 2 credit hours, most are equal to 3 or 4 credit hours. Here's the course load you will carry, depending on whether you attend DeVry as a full- or part-time student of hospitality management courses or event management courses.
- Full-time student schedule = 15 credit hours (4 to 5 courses) per semester
- Part-time student schedule = 1 to 14 credit hours (1 to 4 courses) per semester
At DeVry, you choose the pace that best fits your life and your schedule.
To learn more about business administration and hospitality management courses or event management courses, as well as requirements for completing your bachelor's degree program, contact a DeVry representative or see the academic calendar.
