A degree in Hospitality Administration prepares students to begin their careers in a variety of industry sectors: hotel operations, sales and revenue, marketing, human resources, food and beverage management, real estate development, event management even entrepreneurial ventures.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge Outcomes
Knowledge of the foundations of the hospitality industry: history, lexicon, and sectors.
Knowledge of the role of hospitality in society.
Knowledge of core hospitality business functions, including, but not limited to, finance and accounting, marketing, operations, human resources and organizational behavior, and revenue management.
Knowledge of the concepts, frameworks, and methods of experience design and management.
Knowledge of key macro-level issues that mutually impact hospitality and society, including, but not limited to, technology, sustainability, and wellness.
Skill Outcomes
An ability to exercise innovation as a learnable iterative process.
An ability to optimize human interactions in experience-based industries.
An ability to apply analytics to facilitate decisionmaking.
An ability to lead individuals, groups, and organizations.
An ability to communicate ideas in a persuasive and effective manner.
The Entrepreneurship concentration aims to empower students with the foundational leadership and assessing skills to create economic and social value either for a start-up or as part of an entrepreneurial team within a hospitality organization. Throughout the concentration, students will develop skills of idea generation and opportunity recognition. They will learn to think like an entrepreneur to recognize innovative opportunities, appraise financial feasibility, and understand the business planning process. The concentration includes a set of required and elective courses pointing to an interdisciplinary approach while advancing students entrepreneurial leadership.
