HMGT - Hosp, Hotel Mgmt, Tour

HMGT 601 Interrelationships of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Concepts

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. History and philosophy of the fields of hospitality, tourism, recreation, and parks; fundamentals of planning, development and management of resources allocated for hospitality, tourism, recreation, and parks; development of the recreation and park movement and its role in the spread of tourism and hospitality management in contemporary society. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HMGT 602 Social Science Foundations of Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. History and philosophy of the fields of hospitality, tourism, recreation, and parks; fundamentals of planning, development and management of resources allocated for hospitality, tourism, recreation, and parks; development of the recreation and park movement and its role in the spread of tourism and hospitality management in contemporary society. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

HMGT 606 Overview of Tourism

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Introduction to the fields of tourism and hospitality sciences; scale and scope of the industries and businesses related to tourism and hospitality; the cooperative and dynamic nature of decision-making in tourism; the contributions made by various disciplines towards understanding the consequences of tourism activity; and identification of critical issues in the study of tourism and hospitality. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HMGT 612 International Event Management

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Event execution and experience in a country other than the US; evaluation of venues, vendors, and other logistical and practical elements specific to the culture or country of study. Prerequisites: Graduate classification and approval of instructor.

HMGT 614 Research Methods in Hospitality, Tourism and Recreation Management

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Methods of behavioral science applied to the formulation of research problems and management in the experience industries including hospitality, hotel management, tourism, recreation and event management. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HMGT 616 Tourism Economics

Credits 3. 2 Lecture Hours. 3 Lab Hours. Introduction to tourism economics including: tourism consumption and demand analysis; operating and capital budgeting; measurement of economic impacts through input/output analysis; forecasting; project management through PERT/CPM; decision making under uncertainty; benefit/cost analysis. Prerequisites: RPTS 606 and STAT 651 or approval of instructor.

HMGT 622 Planning and Design of Hospitality, Tourism and Recreation Places

Credits 3. 2 Lecture Hours. 2 Lab Hours. Classification of areas according to primary function, location and clientele served; basic park planning principles involving scale, circulation, function and spatial relationships; methodology for establishing planning goals, objectives and planning strategies. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

HMGT 625 Hotel and Tourism Industry Analytics

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Principles and application of hospitality-industry and hotel analytics; analysis of industry data, trends and operations challenges. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

HMGT 630 Contemporary Perspectives in Qualitative Research within Hospitality & Tourism

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Contemporary Perspectives in Qualitative Research within Hospitality & Tourism. Awareness and appreciation of the nature of qualitative methods; widely used and contemporary qualitative approaches in hospitality and tourism research; challenge required to become fully proficient with the techniques; potential contribution to research promised by the selected qualitative methods; consideration of mixed methods to acquire skills for successful use of other methods such as survey. Prerequisites: HMGT 614 or approval of instructor; graduate classification.

HMGT 631 Marketing in the Digital Age for Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Application of basic and digital tourism marketing principles and concepts in government, business, and social-cause contexts; situation analysis and operational evaluation; decision making in terms of product, place, price, and channel of distribution mixes for tourism attractions and services. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

HMGT 632 Contemporary Hospitality, Tourism and Recreation Human Resources Management

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Examination of the functions of human resource management through readings, cases, and applied research with special attention to strategic HR alliances and developing trends in the hospitality, tourism, and recreation sectors. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

HMGT 635 Advanced Quantitative Methods in Hospitality, Tourism and Recreation

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Application of advanced quantitative analysis methods to data sets from hospitality, hotel management and tourism research; data analysis and variable selection based on both theory and questions to practical issues; application of a variety of multivariate methods to address assumptions, reliability and validity; interpretation of results. Prerequisites: Graduate classification; EPSY 640 or approval of instructor.

HMGT 641 Tourism Experience

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Designing tourism service enterprises, managing service operations, and quantitative models for tourism experience management; engineering of operations within service organizations included within the infrastructure associated with tourism industries, using advanced methods and technology to enhance activities that translate to consumer outcomes. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HMGT 646 Heritage Tourism

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Transdisciplinary examination of contemporary research and practice in heritage tourism and public culture; deploying variety of disciplinary outlooks to explore the representation of peoples, places and pasts in a range of settings from the indigenous and sacred to the post-industrial and post-colonial; theoretical insights into heritage related to place and space, community, politics and power, ethnicity, identity and belonging, key stakeholders in the local-global tourism industry, and issues related to justice and ethics; practical insights and ethical guidelines for the development, interpretation and management of heritage sites and places. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HMGT 650 Financing Hospitality, Hotel and Tourism Services

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Financial vehicles for funding hospitality, hotels and tourism organizations and services. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HMGT 684 Professional Internship

Credits 1 to 4. 1 to 4 Other Hours. On-the-job experience program conducted in the area of the student’s specialization under the supervision of a graduate faculty member. May be taken three times for credit. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HMGT 685 Directed Studies

Credits 1 to 4. 1 to 4 Other Hours. Investigations not included in student's research for thesis or dissertation; problems selected in administration, management or planning. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HMGT 689 Special Topics in...

Credits 1 to 4. 1 to 4 Other Hours. Selected topics in an identified area of hospitality, hotel, tourism, recreation and event management. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Graduate classification; approval of instructor.

HMGT 691 Research

Credits 1 to 23. 1 to 23 Other Hours. Research in hospitality, hotel management, recreation or event management for thesis or dissertation. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HMGT 693 Professional Study

Credits 1 to 3. 1 to 3 Other Hours. Approved research or professional paper undertaken as the terminal requirement for the Master of Science Non-Thesis. May be taken up to three hours for credit. Prerequisites: Graduate classification; approval of instructor.