FOREIGN LANGUAGE 1
Learn and enjoy Nihongo and be a Japanese speaker someday.
INTRODUCTION TO MEETINGS, INCENTIVES, CONFERENCES, AND EVENTS MANAGEMENT (MICE)
This course examines the principles of conceptualizing, planning, managing, and evaluating meetings, and events and festivals management. Topics include the significance of conventions and events in tourism, event design, project management, methods and evaluation, physical requirements, organizing, promotion and sponsorship. This is an integration course that applies all the principles of conceptualization or management and foundation tourism and hospitality courses.
GE 8 Ethics BSHM 1E NDC
Ethics deals with principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of the person, society and in interaction with the environment and other shared resources. (CMO 20 s 2013).
The Entrepreneurial Mind
The entrepreneur is the most important person in a business enterprise, especially in the start-up phase. They will function as the originator, organizer, and operators of their enterprise and will be primarily answerable only to themselves. As such the students must have mastery of themselves as a foundation in their journey to master opportunities and their situation then later to master their enterprise.
This course shall use learner-centered, active, and experiential teaching methods to develop the entrepreneurial mindset in the students. The focus will be on students’ immediate application of the seven self-mastery skills namely:
(1) learning to be,
(2) learning to communicate,
(3) learning to think
(4) learning to intuit,
(5) learning to do,
(6) learning to feel, and
(7) learning to lead towards the attainment of Whole Brain Thinking.
It will also introduce the students to the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Students will be tasked to engage in various micro-entrepreneurial exercises to encourage inductive learning of these fundamentals. In the process, the students will be expected to engage in a self-assessment of their personal entrepreneurial behaviors, competencies, personality profiles, leadership styles, and thinking preferences, which will serve as a foundation for their development as responsible, disciplined and creative entrepreneurial leaders.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE 2
- This course aims to train students to develop intermediate conversational skills using a foreign language. Student should be able to understand technical jargon used in the tourism industry.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
This course is about the interrelationships among components of the natural world; environmental problems, their causes, associated risks, preventive measures and alternative solutions.
HOSPITALITY BUSINESS PROJECT STUDY
This subject includes the discussion on features of a project study and business plan. It includes topics on the major parts of business plan consisting of marketing, operations, personnel and financial plans. Requirements in manufacturing and service sectors will be differentiated. A comprehensive marketing plan of a particular project shall be expected as a major required by the course. This course will also include in the discussion of the composition of the project study.
Macro Perspective of Tourism and Hospitality
This course is design to give a clear and whole overview of Tourism and Hospitality as an ecosystem and goes beyond the usual closed-concept of Tourism. It introduces the concepts and terms that are common throughout the different sectors. It also intends to develop, update and maintain local knowledge as well as tourism industry knowledge. It shows the structure and scope of tourism as well as the impact of tourism as an industry in relation to the world economy and society. It also illustrates the effects of convergence of tourism with other local industries and let the students appreciate it multiplier effect in various fronts.
It discusses the major factors that influence the history and future of tourism in the world and in the Philippines. It also introduces the sustainable goals of tourism and discusses, among others, how to develop protective environments for children in tourism destinations; to observe and perform risk mitigation activities. The students will also learn to appreciate the key global organizations and roles they play in influencing and monitoring tourism trends.
Front Office Operations
This course designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to perform front office and reception duties and be qualified as Front Office Attendant in any establishments.