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The
Bachelor of Science degree in Hospitality Management prepares
students in the management of foodservice, lodging, or travel
and recreation businesses that are an integral part of a dynamic
and rapidly growing hospitality industry. This interdisciplinary
program provides students with excellent theoretical knowledge,
skills, and techniques necessary to successfully attain outstanding
management positions in one of the following areas of specialization:
1.Hotel Management;
2.Restaurant and Institutional Foodservice Management; or
3.Commercial Recreation and Resort Management.
The program provides
students with the overall breadth of a common core in business,
including courses in hospitality management, to maximize a
variety of professional opportunities within each of the three
concentration areas. Each concentration is designed to prepare
highly professional and marketable specialists to manage complex
and diverse hospitality organizations.
The interdisciplinary
program in Hospitality Management is located in the College
of Business, BUS 314, phone 415/338-6087. Advising in each
student's area of specialization is provided by the individual
department offering the concentration. The program requires
128 units for graduation. Students must complete 12 units
of prerequisites and a core curriculum of 44 units plus 21
units in one of the three areas of concentration:
Commercial Recreation
and Resort Management
The concentration
in Commercial Recreation and Resort Management prepares graduates
to be entrepreneurs, managers, planners, and program supervisors
in commercial recreation, travel tourism, and resort management
career areas. Its goals are to assist students to acquire
knowledge, skills, practical experience, and job placement
in leisure and travel related businesses.
Students learn about
the travel and tourism system, economic and social impacts
of tourism, resort development and marketing, tourist motivations,
special events management, theme parks, transportation used
by travelers, ecotourism, incentive travel, tour company operations
and sales, spas, conference and meeting planning, destination
marketing, and cultural tourism. Students who select the concentration
in Commercial Recreation and Resort Management should seek
advising from the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies,
GYM 307, phone 415/338-1818.
Hotel Management
The concentration
in Hotel Management prepares graduates to move up rapidly
in the exciting hotel industry. Students will gain the business
knowledge needed to obtain an entry-level position in the
development, management, or possible ownership of properties
as diverse as casino hotels, convention hotels, resort hotels,
bed and breakfast properties, motels, park lodges, and other
lodging businesses. International hotel companies are eager
to hire graduates with the Hotel Management concentration
to fill the plethora of positions available in all departments
within hotels. Major management functions included in the
concentration are personnel management, finance, accounting,
sales and marketing, operations management, hotel information
systems, income and expense patterns and controls, and communication
skills.
Students who select
the concentration in Hotel Management complete a specialized
curriculum in the College of Business. Interested students
should seek course advising from the Department of Hospitality
Management, BUS 314, phone 415/338-6087.
Restaurant and Institutional
Foodservice Management
The concentration
in Restaurant and Institutional Foodservice Management prepares
students for management positions in various areas of the
fast growing foodservice industry. Its goal is to develop
restaurant and institutional foodservice managers to combine
knowledge and skills for business, food production, and services
in the foodservice industry. Students acquire a strong background
in food principles, quantity food procurement, production
and catering, food cost control, and foodservice management.
In addition, the core curriculum in business management ensures
that students develop competencies in finance, marketing,
organizational theory, management, and personnel administration.
Students who select the concentration in Restaurant and Institutional
Foodservice Management should seek course advising from the
Department of Consumer and Family Studies/Dietetics, Burk
Hall 329, phone 415/338-1219.
Program Requirements
All majors must complete the following core requirements or
their equivalents. Approved community college courses may
be substituted for the courses marked with an asterisk (*).
Lists of acceptable courses from nearby community colleges
may be obtained by visiting the College of Business Student
Services website: www.sfsu.edu/~cobssc
For colleges not
included on the list a detailed description of the course
must be submitted to an advisor in the College of Business
for evaluation. Community college courses are not accepted
to meet the requirements of any course numbered 300 or above.
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