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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
The Expedition Planning course uses a field setting to teach wilderness expedition planning emphasizing route and navigation planning, emergency planning, food rations and healthy living planning, and planning form small community living.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course trains students in basic cross-cultural awareness then places students in communities with indigenous and/or agrarian families. The purpose of this course is to develop understanding of another culture as well as to highlight the student's home culture and privilege, without judgement, ultimately becoming more self-aware as a global citizen. This immersion in a locally sustainable family setting also illuminates human ecology issues and political issues relate to power. The course looks at the benefits and pitfalls of ecotourism, using a systems approach to look at sustainable tourism in international settings. The sustainability model includes the triple bottom line of ecological, economic, and social sustainability with humans as an integral part of the ecosystem.
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3.00 Credits
Understanding, anticipating, and responding safely to the dangers and hazards inherent to back country travel. Fosters confidence in one's ability to react appropriately in uncontrolled outdoor environments. Responsible use of our natural resources and recreation management issues will also be explored. This course does not include a field trip.
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1.00 Credits
This course assists in helping students develop skills necessary to succeed in the field of parks, recreation, and tourism. Students will access a variety of professional resources, identify potential internship agencies, and develop specific internship and career goals. Prerequisites: Department Consent.
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3.00 Credits
Covers the basic steps in the accounting cycle in the hospitality industry, preparation and analysis of financial statements, and accounting for short-term and long-term assets, liabilities, and equities.
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3.00 Credits
Provides students with the principles of supervision as they apply specifically to the hospitality industry. Topics covered include leadership, motivation, effective communications, productivity, conflict, and change.
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3.00 Credits
Covers the rights and responsibilities that the law grants or imposes upon a hotel keeper, and discusses the possible consequences of failure to satisfy legal obligations.
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3.00 Credits
Offers a complete approach to the operation of resort properties: historical development, planning, development, investment, financial management, marketing, and future issues and concerns.
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3.00 Credits
Defines the scope and segmentation of the convention and group business market; describes marketing and sales strategies to attract markets with specific needs; and explains techniques to meet those needs.
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3.00 Credits
This course will expand traditional marketing concepts with an emphasis on the building of relationship and value with customers in parks, recreation and tourism experiences and services. Provides a basic background in marketing, focuses on practical sales techniques, proven approaches for targeting markets, and the role of the 4 Ps.
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