Program Overview

Bachelor of Science in Hospitality, Tourism, and Event Management

The mission of the Hospitality, Tourism and Event Management department is to be a student-centered academic and professional environment dedicated to educating exceptional hospitality and tourism industry business leaders through experiential and personalized learning.

Overview

The program is designed to provide students with a core of business education and professional hospitality and tourism management knowledge. Students can choose to focus on an elective emphasis, including: hotel operations management; food and beverage management; conventions, meetings and event management, or tourism management.

Program Learning Outcomes

1. Critical Thinking: Students locate, organize and interpret data to solve problems and make decisions. Students synthesize information/data/concepts to create solutions or plans to address challenges. Students present, defend and advocate positions with an understanding of implications.
2. Teamwork and Collaboration: Students create, utilize and participate in teams to achieve goals.
3. Professionalism: Students apply theoretical concepts and seek experience and knowledge to maximize potential.
4. Communication: Students communicate effectively in both written and oral formats to different audiences.
5. Ethics: Students examine ethical implications and understand the potential ramifications of actions.
6. Diversity and Inclusion: Students are aware of and empathetic to others in order to design and execute positive guest and employee experiences.

Degree Requirements

• In addition to the core course program required of all Hospitality and Tourism Management majors, ECON 101 and ECON 102 must be completed before enrollment in certain core courses.
• Except in cases of credit by examination, no more than six units of the core requirements may be taken on a CR/NC basis.

Major Prerequisites

• ECON 101: Introduction to Microeconomic Analysis (3 units)
• ECON 102: Introduction to Macroeconomic Analysis (3 units)

Core Courses

• ACCT 100: Introduction to Financial Accounting (3 units)
• ACCT 101: Introduction to Managerial Accounting (3 units)
• DS/ECON 212: Business Statistics (3 units) or MATH 124: Elementary Statistics (3 units)
• FIN 350: Business Finance (3 units)
• HTM 110: Introduction to Hospitality and Tourism Management (3 units)
• HTM 300GW: Hospitality Tourism Management Business Communication - GWAR (3 units)
• HTM 301: Food Science and Production (3 units)
• HTM 424: Tourism Management (3 units)
• HTM 457: Restaurant Operations (3 units)
• HTM 458: Hospitality Tourism Management Revenue and Cost Control (3 units)
• HTM 515: Hospitality and Tourism Management Internship (3 units)
• HTM 531: Hospitality Services Management (3 units)
• HTM 560: Hospitality Human Resource Management (3 units)
• HTM 561: Hotel Operation Management (3 units)
• HTM 590: Integrated Seminar in Hospitality, Tourism, and Event Management (3 units)
• MGMT 405: Introduction to Management and Organizational Behavior (3 units)
• MKTG 431: Principles of Marketing (3 units)

Guided Electives

Select two from the following:

• HTM 215: Service Leadership: Theory and Practice (3 units)
• HTM 324: Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Food, Beverage, and Culture in America (3 units)
• HTM 351: Asian Food, Culture, and Hospitality (3 units)
• HTM 357: Food Systems and the Environment (3 units)
• HTM 400: Wine Appreciation (3 units)
• HTM 421: Food, Wine, and Culture in California (3 units)
• HTM 425: The Business of International Tourism (3 units)
• HTM 557: Restaurant and Catering Management (3 units)
• HTM 562: Advanced Studies in Global Hotel Operations Management (3 units)
• HTM 576: Meeting Planning and Convention/Event Management I (3 units)
• HTM 577: Meeting Planning and Convention/Event Management II (3 units)
• HTM 578: Hospitality and Tourism Management Sales and Marketing (3 units)
• IBUS 330: International Business and Multicultural Relations (3 units)

General Education Requirements

• English Composition (LD, 3 units)
• Critical Thinking (LD, 3 units)
• Oral Communication (LD, 3 units)
• Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning (LD, 3 units)
• Arts (LD, 3 units)
• Humanities (LD, 3 units)
• Social and Behavioral Sciences (LD, 6 units)
• Physical Science (LD, 3 units)
• Biological Science (LD, 3 units)
• Laboratory (LD, 1 unit)
• Ethnic Studies (LD or UD, 3 units)
• Science or Math/Quantitative Reasoning (UD, 3 units)
• Arts or Humanities (UD, 3 units)
• Social and Behavioral Sciences (UD, 3 units)
• SF State Studies:
  • American Ethnic and Racial Minorities (LD or UD, 3 units)
  • Environmental Sustainability and Climate Action (LD or UD, 3 units)
  • Global Perspectives (LD or UD, 3 units)
  • Social Justice (LD or UD, 3 units)

First-Time Student Roadmap (4 Year)

The roadmaps presented are intended as suggested plans of study and do not replace meeting with an advisor.

Transfer Student Roadmap (2 Year)

For students with an AS-T in Business Administration (2011 or 2021), specific roadmaps are available.

General Advising Information for Transfer Students

1. Before transfer, complete as many lower-division requirements or electives for this major as possible.
2. The following courses are not required for admission but are required for graduation:
   • a course in U.S. History
   • a course in U.S. & California Government

Students should attempt to identify and take an appropriate course in critical thinking (1B/A3) no later than the term of application to the CSU.