Hospitality Management Program
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Program Overview
Are you an enthusiastic team player with good people skills? Do you love to travel and explore? A hospitality career is the right fit for you.
Endicott’s hospitality management program explores industry fundamentals with courses in hospitality marketing and restaurant, hotel and events management, along with a series of hospitality business courses. With a liberal arts foundation and a wealth of internship experiences, your Endicott education will position you for success in this broad and exciting field.
In addition, you will expand your focus by applying hands-on learning in La Chanterelle, the non-traditional classroom at the Misselwood ocean front estate on our campus. Through applied learning, you develop interpersonal, professional, and entrepreneurial skills, preparing you for a leadership role.
Though it is not required, students may choose a concentrated field of study, and the School of Hospitality Management offers three such concentrations: events management, international hospitality management, and hotel & resort management .
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Curriculum
Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 125-126
Freshman - Credits: 32
- Individual and Society General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
- Quantitative Reasoning General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
- General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
- Hospitality Elective (Cr: 3)
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ACC 175 - Financial Accounting (Cr: 3)
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ENG 111 - Critical Reading and Writing I (Cr: 3)
Satisfies the Writing Designated Core requirement.
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ENG 112 - Critical Reading and Writing II (Cr: 3)
Satisfies the Writing Designated Core requirement.
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HTM 101 - Foundations of Hospitality Management (Cr: 3)
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HTM 108 - Rooms Division Management (Cr: 3)
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HTM 110 - Service Management (Cr: 3)
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INT 100 - Internship I (Cr: 2)
Sophomore - Credits: 32-33
- Aesthetic Awareness and Creative Expression General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
- Literary Perspectives General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
- Science and Technology General Education Requirement (Cr: 3-4)
- General Education Requirements (Cr: 6)
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ECN 201 - Macroeconomics (Cr: 3)
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HTM 213 - Hospitality Sales and Marketing (Cr: 3)
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HTM 225 - Hospitality Management Accounting (Cr: 3)
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HTM 250 - Food and Beverage Management (Cr: 3)
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HTM 255 - Fundamentals of Events (Cr: 3)
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INT 200 - Internship II (Cr: 2)
Junior - Credits: 31
- Elective (Cr: 3)
- General Education Electives (Cr: 6)
- Global Issues General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
- Hospitality Electives (Cr: 3)
- Values and Ethical Reasoning General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
- World Cultures General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
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HTM 302 - Hospitality Research Methods (Cr: 3)
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HTM 360 - Hospitality Legal Perspectives (Cr: 3)
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HTM 374 - Hospitality Organizational Behavior (Cr: 3)
Satisfies Writing Designated Requirement
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HTM 379 - Semester Internship Strategies (Cr: 1)
Senior - Credits: 30
- Elective (Cr: 3)
- Hospitality Electives (Cr: 6)
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HTM 415 - Hospitality Strategic Management (Cr: 3)
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HTM 480 - Semester Internship (Cr: 12)
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HTM 489 - Senior Thesis I (Cr: 3)
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HTM 490 - Senior Thesis II (Cr: 3)
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the hospitality programs, students will:
- Develop strong interpersonal and communication skills associated with customer negotiation and active listening.
- Communicate effectively in written form within the conventions of the discipline.
- Demonstrate the critical inquiry and analysis skills needed to engage constructively in intellectual discourse within the discipline of hospitality management.
- Demonstrate effective financial skills including operational hotel and restaurant ratio calculations, SWOT analyses, and management process and styles.
- Develop the relevant technological skills used in the hospitality industry.
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Internships and Careers
An Endicott education means you'll graduate with a degree and a resume.
Whether you pursue graduate school or embark on your career right away after graduation, we believe that your time at Endicott will prepare you for the next step. Take a look at what our graduates have been up to lately.
Recent Internships
- Marriott Long Wharf
- Country Music Awards
- MSF Investments
- North of Boston Convention & Visitor Bureau
- Rafanelli Events
Graduate School Acceptances
- Bentley
- UNH
- Duke University
- UMASS Boston
- Suffolk University
La Chanterelle
La Chanterelle, the non-traditional classroom, is a student-operated fine dining restaurant in the renowned Misselwood ocean front estate on our campus. As a student in the School of Hospitality Management, you will acquire skills here fundamental to the industry while gaining valuable work experience for your resume.
