Program Overview

Hospitality Management Degree with Hospitality, Nutrition and Food Science Teacher Certification

Program Overview

The Bachelor of Science with a major in hospitality management gives you a solid academic education combined with extensive training in hospitality business skills, using the best modern technology. By getting your certification in hospitality, nutrition and food science, you will also be prepared to teach grades 8-12.

Program Type

• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) with Teacher Certification

Format

• On Campus

Estimated Time to Complete

• 4+ years

Credit Hours

• 120-129

Program Description

Our students gain the prestige and all the advantages of university education: solid academic background, learning laboratories, use of modern technology and extensive education in all hospitality business skills. Graduates in Hospitality Management with this teacher certification are fully prepared to begin a career in teaching or enter high growth global industries with expanding demands for highly skilled, technologically-oriented professionals.

Marketable Skills

• Analyze financial statements, ratios, efficiencies
• Operational experience
• Leadership ability
• Understanding of hospitality legal requirements/regulations
• Strategic management and tactical execution

Program Highlights

• Gain insight into the industry through participating in field trips to industry locations, attending special industry guest lectures and symposiums including our Executive-in-Residence Lecture Series and meeting with industry professionals through our Company Showcase program.
• We host an annual Hospitality Career Expo specifically for students in the Hospitality and Tourism Management program, in which they meet one-on-one with hiring representatives from well-known hospitality organizations.
• Our faculty members are recognized experts who conduct research on a wide variety of important hospitality issues including sustainable tourism, hotel and restaurant management and technology in the hospitality industry.
• We provide networking opportunities with professional organizations that allow you to practice professional engagement and leadership skills such as student chapters of the Eta Sigma Delta International Honor Society, the Club Manager Association of America, the National Society of Minorities in Hospitality, the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association and several other international, national and regional organizations.
• Take advantage of opportunities to develop an understanding of the economic, political, socio-cultural, technological and sustainability dimensions of the global hospitality industry through study abroad and exchange programs.
• Students “learn by doing” in The Club at Gateway Center, our student-operated restaurant, which is open to the public.

Career Opportunities

• Country club, hotel, resort, restaurant or special events management
• Hospitality accounting, revenue management and real estate
• Hospitality human resources
• Hospitality information technology and social media
• Hospitality marketing and sales
• Casinos, travel and tourism companies or on cruise lines
• Teaching grades 8-12

Sample Courses

• Family Life Education (3 hrs)
• Principles of Nutrition (3 hrs)
• Foundations of International Travel and Tourism (3 hrs)
• Orientation to the Hospitality Industry (3 hrs)
• Managing a Diverse Workforce (3 hrs)
• Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood (3 hrs)