Tourism and Events Management with Foundation Year

Bachelor's degree

In Telford

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Telford

  • Duration

    4 Years

BA (Hons) Tourism and Events combines the skills development from the events subject with a knowledge and understanding of the key requirements of successful tourism organisations and it equips graduates with the skills and knowledge required to manage tourism within an evolving global marketplace of events management.

The course has a strong emphasis on management and enterprise and enables students to develop industry sought after competencies for students to progress their career within the dynamic, multi-faceted industry. The course is also designed to make you attractive to prospective employers through the development of practical skills, such as, the ability to problem solve, work in groups, research, use research methods and work independently.

A degree in Tourism and Events Management prepares you for career opportunities in the tourism and events sector where you can use a portfolio of events expertise and skills to inform the management of tourist destinations and attractions. Upon graduation students can expect to enter a number of roles in the tourism or events sector within the public, private or voluntary sectors, or continue on to postgraduate study. Career opportunities include travel agents, destination management and marketing organisations, event and venue management companies, visitor attractions, heritage sites, local authorities, cultural organisations, travel operators, transport organisations and travel industry suppliers.

You can further enhance your graduate employability by undertaking an industry placement between the second and third year of your degree. The university fully supports its students in finding domestic and international placements, making applications, writing CVs, preparing for interviews and assessment centres. Students who complete a year of an industry based placement gain confidence, improve their employability, often secure graduate jobs and achieve high classification degrees.

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Location

Start date

Telford (Shropshire)
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Level 3 Southwater One, Southwater Sqare, Southwater Way, TF3 4JG

Start date

On request

About this course

For the award of an honours degree, you, the student, will be able to:

Demonstrate an ability to deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry within the tourism and events management discipline and apply the methods and techniques that they have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply your knowledge and understanding, and to initiate and carry out projects.

Demonstrate conceptual understanding that enables the student:


to devise and sustain arguments, and/or to solve problems, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of a discipline


to describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in the discipline.




Demonstrate the ability to manage your own learning, and to make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed research articles and/or original materials appropriate to the discipline) and communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.


Critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that may be incomplete), to make judgements, and to frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution - or identify a range of solutions - to a problem.


Propose, undertake and present an independent study project that analyses a key issue in the area of business and human resource management.


2019 Entry

DD from A level
BTEC QCF Extended Diploma grade PPP, BTEC QCF Diploma grade MP
Pass Access to HE Diploma (Full Award)
If you've got other qualifications or relevant experience, please contact The Gateway for further advice before applying.
International entry requirements and application guidance can be found here

Other Requirements.
Students must have studied a minimum of two years post GCSE level. However, it is expected that some applicants will be mature students with work experience, who wish to further their career development

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Subjects

  • Employability
  • Industry
  • Tourism
  • Marketing

Course programme

Semester 1 Starters:

UNDERGRADUATE

Year 1 (Foundation)

3GK003 Academic Skills (20 Credits)

3GK006 Extended Project (20 Credits)

3MG001 Introduction to Management (20 Credits)

3GK004 The World at Work: Careers and Personal Development (20 Credits)

3GK003 Academic Skills (20 Credits)

3IM001 Business Decision Making (20 Credits)

Year 2

4LI001 Introduction to Events and Venues (20 Credits)

4LI003 Introduction to Tourism (20 Credits)

4LI011 Academic Skills (20 Credits)

4LI009 Venue Design and Management (20 Credits)

4LI012 Managing People in Events and Venues (20 Credits)

4LI005 Tourism Place making (20 Credits)

Year 3

5LI007 Functions and Special Events (20 Credits)

5LI015 Delivering Event Experiences (20 Credits)

5LI014 Business Travel and Tourism (20 Credits)

5LI017 Research Themes in Events (20 Credits)

5MK012 Integrated Marketing Communications (20 Credits)

5LI016 Solving Work-based Problems (20 Credits)

Year 4

6LI024 The Wedding Experience (20 Credits)

6LI020 Destination Marketing & Management (20 Credits)

6LI022 Research, Interpretation and Analysis (20 Credits)

6LI018 Tourism in Emerging Markets (20 Credits)

6BU013 Independent Project (20 Credits)

6LI012 Managing Digital Events and Venues (20 Credits)

Tourism and Events Management with Foundation Year

Price on request