23 courses with the subject THM, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
THM 100Prof Career Hospitality Industry3
This first course in professional development will provide in-depth discussion and experience in professional development within the hospitality industry. It will prepare students with the knowledge of professionalism, business etiquette, self-awareness skills and career planning of goals and objectives. It will provide information for their career, resumes, interviewing skills, and networking communications.
Overview of various facets of the industry's restaurants, hotels, resorts, travel, tourism, and clubs. Emphasis on general operating procedures and professional management principles with the inclusion of career planning and exposure to role models.
Study of principles and procedures used in effective hotel/motel front office management. Emphasis on operation of specific equipment, planning, and forecasting hospitality needs.
This course introduces the student to the concepts of food composition, nutrition science, and application of nutrition principles by the food service professional. It provides the student with a basic understanding of human nutrition.
This course presents best practices and future directions in the hotel industry. Students will gain an understanding based on the flow of the guests' experience including reservation, arrival, registration, service, purchasing, departure, and billing.
Methods, principles and procedures for efficiently and effectively managing food service operations. Focuses on cost control, marketing and managementof human resources.
Overview of the gaming industry, including scope, staffing, security, control, taxation, government, regulations, its interface with the hotel, and the social, economic, and cultural impacts of gaming on host community.
Exploration of the procedures and practices utilized in purchasing items and services for the hospitality industry. Emphasis on the procurement cycle, legal aspects of purchasing, standards and specifications of items, sources of supplies, and distribution.
Study of strategic management concepts and applications in the hospitality industry. Students learn how to set up, start, and run a hospitality business. In addition, students receive intensive training in the use of cases for decision making.
Emphasis on organizing, arranging, and operating conventions, trade shows, and concessions. Examination of methods of sales used in booking conventions and trade shows, and division of administrative responsibility in their operation.
Survey of the organization and management of member-owned and proprietary private clubs and resorts. Study of relationship between board of directors, management, employees, club committees, and club members.
Principles of menu planning applied to the food services industry, including the menu and financial success, the menu and marketing, measuring menu effectiveness, menu writing procedures, and menu analysis and feasibility.
Study of hospitality sales and marketing with emphasis on practical sales techniques, proven approaches to selling to targeting markets, and marketing role in sales.
Study of the relationship between individual employees and the hospitality industry. Analysis of human behavior, attitudes, motivation strategies, stress management, employee wages, and productivity.
Study of the problems of cost and operation of pest control, security, parking, general cleaning and upkeep, laundry, fire prevention, pools, tennis courts, and care of guest rooms and public space.
Emphasis on providing the student with the opportunity to engage in a research project designed to showcase competence and developed managerial knowledge.
Emphasis on the unique difference between franchise and company-owned properties and the application of special techniques required to manage these differences.
