Foundation Degree Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management (Validated by the Ulster University)

This 3 year programme provides a strong vocational content delivered through tourism, hospitality and events specific modules.

You will be presented with opportunities to acquire and enhance academic, technical (industry specific) and transferable skills (communication, organisational skills, problem solving, leadership, critical thinking) which will help you to apply to relevant jobs within the hospitality & culinary arts industry.

Year 1 Modules: Hospitality Pathway

Introduction to Hospitality & Tourism: Provides a broad knowledge and understanding of the tourism, hospitality and events industries.

Food and Beverage Service Operations: Provides students with the knowledge and understanding of food and beverage service practices and operational procedures found in industry.

Facilities Operations: Provides knowledge and understanding of the wide range of sectors and organisations that operate.

Events Operations: Introduces students to the importance of events worldwide and will allow the students to examine international, national and local event examples.

Year 2 Modules: Hospitality Pathway

Management in Action: Introduces students to the nature of management and leadership in organisations, also investigating the business environment in which they operate.

Managing Financial Performance: Provides a background knowledge and understanding of the financial responsibilities in the management of organisations in the hospitality and tourism industry.

Facilities Operations: Provides knowledge and understanding of the wide range of sectors and organisations that operate within the tourism, hospitality and events sector.

Food and Beverage Management: Provides an opportunity to demonstrate supervisory skills through a range of hospitality related events or food and beverage project management.

Year 3 Modules - Hospitality Pathway

Personal Professional Development: Enables students to develop a thorough understanding of the range of career opportunities available to them and to critically reflect upon what it means to work in this sector.

Marketing and Entrepreneurship: Equips students with a general understanding of the core components of contemporary marketing and entrepreneurship within a tourism, hospitality and events context.

People Management: Prepares students for leadership roles in the human resource function of the hospitality and tourism industry.

Work Based Learning: Provides students with an opportunity to gain authentic and innovative work experience, in a work-based learning environment, as part of their planned programme of study. Students are strongly encouraged to identify and secure their own placement.