Program Overview
Introduction to the Undergraduate Degree in Tourism
The Undergraduate Degree in Tourism is a comprehensive program designed to produce professionals in the field of tourism. The course provides a broad cross-disciplinary education, incorporating diverse scientific and social subjects to train experts capable of assuming a wide range of professional roles.
Objectives and Career Options
The basic aim of this course is to respond to current educational needs, ensuring conversance with the tools needed for decision-making in the current context of tourism. The program offers a solid foundation in all areas related to tourism, enabling students to acquire a series of specific proficiencies in the disciplines involved, as well as a range of general skills allowing them to develop their careers in diverse and changing professional environments.
General Objectives
- To respond to current educational needs, ensuring conversance with the tools needed for decision-making in the current context of tourism.
- To offer a core higher learning, enabling technical specialization and management of tourist companies and institutions.
- To address issues crucial to the development of competitive advantages in relation to products and destinations.
- To create two specialist profiles, reflecting the key areas of specialization in tourism.
- To create the conditions for the development of cross-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, and interdisciplinary research.
Structure
The Degree in Tourism is structured into modules, with subjects organized into semesters. Students are required to take 5 subjects each semester, completing 30 credits per semester and 60 credits per year, for a total of 240 credits over four years.
Distribution of Credits per Subject Type
- Core: 60 credits
- Compulsory: 120 credits
- Optional: 42 credits
- Work experience: 12 credits
- Final Project: 6 credits
- Total credits: 240
General Description of the Course Programme
The course program includes core subjects, compulsory subjects, optional subjects, work experience, and a final project. The core subjects provide a foundation in areas such as law, business, economics, geography, IT, language, and humanities.
Optional Subjects and Routes
The optional subjects are each worth 6 credits and total 42 credits. They are taught over 4-month terms and follow two routes: one focusing on the Economics of Tourism Companies and the other on Planning and Management of Tourist Destinations.
Distinctive Features
The Undergraduate Degree in Tourism has several distinctive features, including:
- A solid theoretical and practical foundation to adapt and respond to the demands of a constantly renewing tourist industry.
- A strong emphasis on the development of linguistic competencies in foreign languages, particularly English.
- A focus on preparing students for a variety of professional profiles, including direction and management in different areas of tourism.
- A commitment to quality in teaching and research, with a strong research focus and collaboration with the industry.
Resources and Facilities
The Faculty of Philosophy and Letters has installations in several buildings on the campus, including the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters buildings and the Edificio Germán Bernácer. The university also has general facilities, such as computer equipment and laboratories, which are used for practical classes.
Further Education
Once students have completed the bachelor's degree, they can continue their studies at the master's degree level. The University of Alicante offers master's degrees in all branches of knowledge.
Career Opportunities
Graduates in Tourism have the necessary capacities to work in different socio-cultural environments and adapt to the changes imposed by a globalized market in constant evolution. They can work in various areas, including:
- Accommodation
- Restoration
- Intermediation
- Transport and logistics
- Planning and public management of destinations
- Products and tourist activities
- Formation, research, and consultancy
Scholarships and Funding
Information on the means existing to facilitate access to university study for those who wish to undertake it is available.
University Life
More information about the campus and activities or resources, organized by or related to the University of Alicante, is available.