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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: TOUR 1100 This course introduces students to a practical understanding of the basic operations of travel agencies. It covers the managerial and financial aspects of agency operations, with an emphasis on the importance of successful agency marketing. (4 contact hours)
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: TOUR 1800 This course introduces skills and knowledge needed for effective food and beverage supervision in a full-service hotel. The course examines food preparation, beverage service, food service staffing, formulas for cost controls, and service areas involved at a hotel (dining room, banquets, lounge, and catering). (2 contact hours)
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: FSRM 2200 (can be taken concurrently) or TOUR 2250 This course introduces students to the basic principles of cost control and waste management within the hotel and food service industries as well as to the prevention of internal/external liability claims. The course focuses on the problem areas of food waste, structural damage, theft, and accidents. (2 contact hours)
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: TOUR 1800 This course combines an overview of reservation systems, terminology and room inventory management techniques, with an in-depth look at front desk operations. It includes various selling strategies and insights on how to manage different types of rooms and guests in order to maximize guest comfort and company profit. The course focuses on the importance of effective communications between departments in order to ensure a smooth and profitable operation. (6 contact hours: 4 lecture, 2 lab)
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: TOUR 1460, TOUR 1500 This course introduces students to the computer terminal, airline language, and how to book and ticket passengers using a computer. Students will learn how to construct itineraries, generate tickets, and search for travel information, using computers in a controlled and simulated environment. (6 contact hours: 2 lecture, 4 lab)
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: TOUR 1100 This course provides an in-depth introduction to group tours and meeting site planning. It focuses on how to organize, plan, conduct, and manage group tours and meetings. The course examines skills necessary to make a group tour or meeting a successful, effective, and well-managed event. (4 contact hours)
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: TOUR 1480, TOUR 1500, TOUR 2200 (can be taken concurrently), TOUR 2600; or TOUR 1400, TOUR 2260, TOUR 2300, TOUR 2700 (can be taken concurrently); or permission of program director This capstone course provides students the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills in travel and tourism/hospitality management to a real work environment. A performance contract, with goals and objectives to which the student, the instructor, and the field supervisor have agreed, guides the learning. The course also focuses on problems and situations students encounter in their practicums and addresses current issues and trends in the travel and tourism field. (16 contact hours: 2 lecture, 14 lab)
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3.00 Credits
This specialized course integrates current information from the disciplines of social science to explain the phenomenon of urban growth. Students will examine the myth and reality of life in the megalopolis. (3 contact hours)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores current challenges facing cities and potential solutions. Topics examined include the provision of social and physical services, housing, employment, the educational system, and national and international demographic changes. Throughout the course, students will examine the unique challenges faced by underrepresented populations and minority groups. (3 contact hours)
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2.00 Credits
This course introduces students to oxyfuel cutting, carbon arc gouging, plasma arc cutting, oxyfuel hand and machine cutting, oxyfuel braze welding, brazing, and soldering. Laboratory experience includes the oxy-acetylene cutting of law carbon steels, and manual oxy-acetylene and straight-line oxy-propane machine cutting of low carbon steel as well as carbon arc gouging on low carbon steel. Students learn how to plasma arc cut, use a plasma arc cutting table, and learn the basics in brazing and soldering on sheet metal and copper tubing. Laboratory experience includes an emphasis on individual instruction. The student must furnish: welding helmet (shade #10 or above); welding googles (shade 3-5); safety glasses; work gloves; long pants; welding jacket; leather work boots, preferably steel toe; 8" crescent wrench; soapstone and holder; tape measure; combination square; chipping hammer; wire brush; tool bag; center punch; and 12 oz. ball peen hammer. 4 1/2" grinder is optional
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