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Hospitality Management
Be a leader in the guest services industry by earning a degree in hospitality management offered both as a major or as an option to our business administration degree.
Curriculum & learning outcomes
All students earning their OSU undergraduate degree (180 credits) in a business discipline from the OSU College of Business complete a common business core. This core, consisting of about 100 credits across all four years, provides students with a strong business foundation. Additionally, hospitality management coursework for the major and option and a sample four-year academic plan are listed below.
Required courses
Learning outcomes
The following learning goals and objectives are in addition to those in the business core learning goals and objectives.
Hospitality management graduates will be competent to:
- Develop an awareness of the various career opportunities and options within the hospitality industry.
- Understand the importance of outstanding guest-service quality, server-guest relationships and ethics.
- Comprehend, synthesize and evaluate elements of professional service management.
- Experience a "real life" experience in the hospitality industry.
- Demonstrate the skills and behaviors required during customer involvement to analyze, judge and act in ways that contribute to customer satisfaction.
- Define and explain food production terms and principles, including food safety and sanitation practices, apply key principles in operating foodservice establishments, and evaluate and critique the effectiveness of such applications.
- Evaluate, analyze and determine the application of human resource theories and principles in maximizing employee performance, employee retention and customer (internal and external) service.
- Explain the application of technology in various hospitality industry segments and in different organizational functional areas.
- Apply strategic management principles to hospitality business operations in maximizing the accomplishment of organizational goals and objectives.
- Evaluate, analyze and determine the application of service marketing theories and principles in promoting hospitality businesses.
- Demonstrate knowledge of and experience in operations relative to the provision of goods and services in hospitality management.
- Describe physical and perpetual inventory systems.
- Acquire knowledge of a global perspective and diversity issues as related to hospitality management.
- Evaluate the economic, social and/or environmental impacts of hospitality business practices on the local communities in which they operate.