Management in Hospitality (Top-up), BA (Hons)

Program Overview

The Management in Hospitality (Top-up), BA (Hons) program at UCLan is a one-year top-up course for students seeking managerial roles in the hospitality industry. It equips students with professional and academic skills in key areas like talent management, research, and service quality, and offers flexible course structure, industry links, and potential career paths in hotel management, marketing, and entrepreneurship.

Program Outline

Management in Hospitality (Top-up), BA (Hons) - UCLan

Degree Overview:

This top-up course is designed for individuals seeking to excel as professional managers within the fast-growing hospitality industry. It aims to equip students with a wide range of professional and academic skills, preparing them for managerial roles. The program focuses on key elements of the hospitality industry, including talent management, applied research, and service quality.

Outline:

• Duration: 1 year
• Delivery: In-person
• Start Date: September 2024
• Structure:
• Intensive one-week induction:
Introduces students to university life and helps them transition to degree-level study.
• Small class sizes: Allow for individual attention from tutors.
• Modules:
• Year 1:
• Compulsory Modules:
• Global Hospitality: The Future:
Explores current and future hospitality themes, issues, and cases, emphasizing real-world links between conceptual issues and empirical application.
• Independent Project for Tourism, Hospitality and Events: Allows students to study a topic of their choice related to their areas of study, developing academic skills and abilities through independent research and analysis of secondary data.
• Tourism, Hospitality and Events Graduate Innovation and Creativity: Consolidates managing oneself, managing others, and managing a business.
Students evaluate their competencies in areas related to tourism, hospitality, and event management, exploring business strategy through innovation and creativity within a corporate setting. The module includes engagement with external organizations to develop transferable skills and abilities for managerial strategies.
• Optional Modules:
• Managing Service Quality:
Provides an in-depth understanding of business management issues involved in managing quality in service organizations. Students critically analyze tools, techniques, and approaches for achieving service quality within the contemporary business landscape, developing professional skills for industry settings.
• Critical Insights into Dark Tourism and Difficult Heritage: Explores a niche but important component of global tourism, focusing on travel to sites associated with death, disaster, or difficult heritage.
Students gain knowledge and skills to become socially responsible managers of dark tourism sites, attractions, and exhibitions.
• Applied Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Events: Develops academic skills and abilities through independent research, demonstrating the use of primary and secondary data collection techniques.
Students provide a logical rationale for their study, supported by detailed methodology, findings, and analysis sections. Students learn experientially, applying their knowledge of international destination development and the visitor economy to a specific case study.

Assessment:

• Methods:
• Essays
• Reports
• Presentations
• Case studies of relevant organizations
• Coursework (including essays, presentations, poster presentations, training exercises, development journals, and portfolios)
• Individual and group work: Some assessments are individual, while others involve group work.

Teaching:

• Methods:
• Engaging lectures
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Practical sessions
• Independent study
• Faculty:
• Experts in the hospitality industry
• Industry professionals
• Members of industry bodies
• Unique Approaches:
• Emphasis on professional development
• Flexible course structure allowing students to choose modules that align with their career aspirations.

Careers:

• Potential Career Paths:
• Management roles across the hospitality industry (hotel chains, cruise ships, casinos, restaurant groups, nightclubs)
• Marketing
• Human Resources
• Hotel management
• Entrepreneurship
• Opportunities:
• Strong links with employers such as Marriott Hotels
• Entrepreneurial module offered as an option
• Development of transferable skills for careers beyond hospitality
• Progression to master's programs

Other:

• Accreditation: Accredited by the Institute of Hospitality, meeting recognized levels and standards of professional knowledge, skills, and understanding relevant to the industry and international benchmark standards.
• Class Sizes: Kept small to allow for individual attention from tutors.
• Guest Lectures and Day Trips: Offer real-world learning experiences.
• Industry Links: Strong links with employers in the hospitality industry.

UKFull-time£9,250 per year InternationalFull-time£16,500 per year