Bachelor of Business Administration in Hospitality Management
About This Program
The BBA in Hospitality Management is a specialized degree. Students will gain practical and theoretical knowledge of core business and hospitality competencies in hotel, restaurant, and tourism management. Skills learned will include service leadership, and guest essentials, business operations, communications, sales & marketing, and revenue enhancement. Students will develop knowledge, skills, and abilities to identify hospitality career goals and effective strategies for achieving them.
Competencies
- Students will learn theoretical knowledge in of hospitality management.
- Students will gain practical knowledge in hospitality management.
- Students will develop competencies in service leadership and guest essentials.
- Students will develop competencies in communications, sales and marketing.
- Students will develop competencies in revenue management for hospitality.
Curriculum
| Foundations | ||
| General Core Requirements | 42 | |
| Students must complete specific courses in certain core areas. | ||
| For Communication select: | ||
| RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION I and RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION II | ||
| For Mathematics select: | ||
| COLLEGE ALGEBRA FOR ECONOMICS & BUSINESS ANALYSIS | ||
| MATHEMATICS FOR ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ANALYSIS | ||
| For Social & Behavioral Sciences select: | ||
| PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS | ||
| For U.S. History select: | ||
| HIST 1301 | HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES TO 1865 (For U.S. History select:) | 3 |
| HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1865 TO PRESENT | ||
| For Foundational Component Area select: | ||
| PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS | ||
| Business Core | ||
| UNIV 1131 | STUDENT SUCCESS (freshmen only) | 1 |
| Select any course sufficient to bring total hours to 120 | 2 | |
| MANA 1301 | BUSINESS IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT | 3 |
| ACCT 2301 | PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING I | 3 |
| ACCT 2302 | PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING II | 3 |
| BSTAT 2305 | INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS | 3 |
| INSY 2303 | INTRODUCTION TO M.I.S. AND DATA PROCESSING | 3 |
| BCOM 3360 | EFFECTIVE BUSINESS COMMUNICATION | 3 |
| BLAW 3310 | LEGAL AND ETHICAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS | 3 |
| BSTAT 3321 | INTERMEDIATE STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS | 3 |
| FINA 3313 | BUSINESS FINANCE | 3 |
| MANA 3318 | MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR | 3 |
| MANA 4322 | STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT | 3 |
| MARK 3321 | PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING | 3 |
| OPMA 3306 | OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT | 3 |
| Specialization in Hospitality Management | ||
| HOSP 3350 | INTRODUCTION TO TRAVEL AND TOURISM (Introduction to Travel and Tourism) | 3 |
| HOSP 3351 | HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT (Hospitality Management) | 3 |
| HOSP 4353 | SERVICE QUALITY & CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE (Service Quality and Customer Experience) | 3 |
| HOSP 4355 | HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY FINANCE & ANALYTICS (Hospitality Industry Finance and Analytics) | 3 |
| HOSP 4359 | HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY (Hospitality Management Strategy) | 3 |
| Advanced Electives | ||
| Select two HOSP or other College of Business courses numbered 3000 or higher. | 6 | |
| Select five course in the College of Business numbered 3000 or higher. | 15 | |
| Total Hours | 123 | |
Program Completion
All students are required to complete 300 documented hospitality work hours in order to gain practical experience in the field as well as apply theoretical concepts learned in the classroom.
BBA in Hospitality majors must earn a C or better in all required core and prescribed electives courses. In addition to meeting the credit hour and course requirements for a specific College of Business degree program, the student must meet the following requirements:
- Be a declared business major.
- Have a minimum overall grade point average of 2.25.
- Have a minimum grade point average of 2.25 in all course work taken from the College of Business.
- Have a minimum grade point average of 2.25 for courses taken within the major/concentration area for those majors having a concentration.
- Complete at least 50 percent of their business course work with the UT Arlington College of Business.
- Complete at least 24 of the last 30 semester hours of advanced (3000/4000 level) course work with UT Arlington College of Business, to include a minimum of 12 hours of advanced courses in their major/concentration subject area beyond business core requirements.
- Earn a grade of "C" in all major/concentration courses required for the degree.