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Attendance
Study mode: Full-time
Location: Ealing campus
(St Marys Road)
Duration: 3-4 years. Four years (including work placement)
Start date: September 2011
About this course
Study level: Honours (Level 6)
UCAS code A: N220 BA/HMgt
Faculty: Faculty of Professional Studies
Department: London School of Hospitality and Tourism
BA (Hons) Hospitality Management
 
Summary
If you want to succeed in hospitality then you need to learn about hospitality and there’s no better place to do this than on our BA (Hons) Hospitality Management course. By giving you the information, the tools, the techniques and the experience needed to devise creative solutions to a full range of complex problems, this course gives you a real foot in the door of this competitive world.

The hospitality management industry has ever-changing business, economic and social demands placed on it.  So we take a multi-disciplinary approach to the management of hospitality products and services and encourage you to develop ways of dealing with these demands.

Come and join us and see just how far you can go.
Details
What’s it all about?

Our aim is to produce students with real skills and a thorough understanding of the technical, supervisory and managerial aspects of the hospitality business. Through a variety of practical and academic modules we’ll give you the abilities necessary to build a professional career in the hospitality industry.

Course content

Level 4

Compulsory modules

- Food and Beverage Operations
- Rooms Operations
- Personal and Professional Development for Managers
- Business Environment
- Management Information.

Optional modules

Choose ONE from

- Languages
- Introduction to Tourism
- Food and Drink Studies.

Level 5

Compulsory modules

- Managing People in Practice
- Management Accounting and Decision-making
- Restaurant and Food Management
- Rooms Management
- Sales and Marketing for Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure.

Optional modules

Choose ONE from:

- Small Business
- Corporate and Event Management
- Tourism Industry Issues
- Food, Diet and Culture
- Languages.

Work Placement

The work placement may be undertaken in any sector of the hospitality industry, either in the UK or abroad.

Level 6

Compulsory modules

- Strategic Hospitality Management
- Contemporary Issues and the Management of Change
- Dissertation.

Optional modules

Choose ONE Business option from:

- Strategic Financial Management
- Global Marketing
- International Human Resource Management.

Choose TWO from:

- Consultancy Project
- Hospitality Information Technologies Strategy
- Hotel Project Management
- Resort and Casino Management
- Food Policy
- Languages.
Entry criteria
GCE A/VCE A level: 180 points, We expect a percentage of these to be at GCE A/VCE A level. Points generated by GCE AS/VCE AS level and Key Skills qualifications, will be considered.

BTEC National Diploma: Merit overall

Access: Pass

Students who have a related HND qualification or equivalent and have at least one year’s work experience, or those who have completed a relevant Foundation Degree can apply to join the final year of this course. The final year of this course is completed by full-time study only.

International entry criteria
International students need to meet our English language requirement at either IELTS at 5.5 or above, TOEFL paper based test score at 525 or above, TOEFL computer based test score at 196 or above, TOEFL internet based test score at 69 or above. Contact our International Office to find out what international qualifications you need to get onto a course www.tvu.ac.uk/international

Entry skills
Hospitality courses attract a diverse range of students in terms of age, ethnicity and gender. About two thirds of students in the school are from ethnic minority groups which is consistent with the demographics of the area. Gender is more evenly split in the School although hospitality courses tend to attract more female students. Approximately four fifths of the students in the School are twenty-one or over. The majority of students enter with an A’Level or GNVQ background and the high number with a GNVQ is consistent with the vocational nature of the courses. The high number of mature students means that some students enter with other qualifications, often craft based and a few with no formal qualifications but often with extensive work experience.

Work experience required
The work experience element of the course may be gained through a work placement that may be undertaken in any sector of the hospitality industry, in the UK or abroad, or may be accredited through previous experience or part-time work whilst studying.
During the course

Notable aspects
The final year of the BA (Hons) Hospitality Management course may also be completed by distance learning or part-time modes and these courses are listed separately.
On course completion

Career progression
Our BA (Hons) Hospitality Management course aims to open doors.

We give you all the knowledge, experience and skills you’ll need to go out and start a rewarding career in one of the varied fields of hospitality management. Typically our students go on to join international hotel and leisure groups, or pursue careers in restaurant companies, the contract or licensed sectors, or run their own hospitality businesses.

We’ll have done our bit – now it’s up to you.

Study progression
We believe that learning on the job is vital for a real understanding of any subject and also one of the best ways to develop your ways of thinking and your practical skills so every student has the chance to undertake work-based learning. This can be in any sector of the hospitality industry, in the UK or even abroad. This course requirement can also be fulfilled by previous experience or by part-time work while you study.

Our aim is to produce graduates with all the skills and abilities needed to flourish in the world of hospitality management. When you leave us, we’d expect you to have a good knowledge of managing operations, people, the market, resources and information. We’d also expect you to be able to:

- research, interpret, analyse and evaluate information and to think critically and be able to develop reasoned arguments;

- demonstrate practical experience within the industry and a sound level of technical skills;

- apply theory to practice and create innovative solutions to complex problems;

- demonstrate a range of skills applicable to future employment - particularly in terms of communication, teamwork and independence;

- exercise initiative and professional judgement;

- see a job not as the end of your studies but just the start of Continuous Professional Development and Lifelong Learning;
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