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Graduates will have highly developed professional competencies within a strong theoretical and practical framework that enables them to undertake roles requiring creativity, knowledge, critical thinking, problem-identification, and problem-solving capacities. These capacities will equip the graduates to work and positively contribute to rapidly evolving, increasingly technological, and internationally oriented hotel and tourism industries.
Overall goals
- With appropriate experiential learning opportunities and cooperative education experience, it is expected that graduates will rapidly advance into supervisory and then management positions once they commence their careers in hotel, travel and tourism industries.
- Second, the programme aims to develop students for the workplace who will be able to intervene creatively in matters requiring comprehension and evaluation of new information, concepts and evidence from a range of sources, and to be able to review, consolidate, extend and apply the knowledge and techniques learned. Graduates are expected to be able to apply a significant range of fundamental principles and complex techniques across a variety of contexts in relation to either disparate or highly specific functions. Graduates will also be accountable for themselves and others in achieving tasks.
- The programme will offer students a multi-disciplinary education, which will equip them with academic, technical, and professional knowledge and skills. Such knowledge and skills will provide a basis for competence in a broad range of complex, managerial and specialised work activities performed in a wide variety of hotel, travel and tourism industry contexts in Dubai and internationally.
- Graduates will be encouraged to display a substantial degree of responsibility and concern for the well-being, and safety of customers/guests, the financial and social health of the organisation they work for, and the standard of living and quality of life of the host society.
Programme Content
The programme consists of 36 taught courses, two practicals in the first year, an internship, a research project, and dissertation. All the 36 courses and the two practicals have value of 3 credit hours, while the internship has a value of 0 credit hours and the project and dissertation both represent 6 credit hours. The dissertation can be substituted for two electives.
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