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University Studies – Graduate Studies in Tourism
DEGREE IN TOURISM - HOTEL MANAGEMENT

General Objective Structure of the Degree Credits / Subjects Practicum

General Objective

The primary objective of the Degree of Tourism and Hotel Management is training professionals with the needed managerial skills to be in charge of responsibility positions in business management and in the development of tourist and hotel projects, and to effectively face the challenges posed by the sector such as globalization, sustainability and the technical developments.

The Degree empowers the professional and cross-cutting skills of the students necessary for leading people and projects in a complex and changing environment.

Structure of the Degree

The Degree is structured in 4 academic years, with a total of 240 European credits, and 60 credits are taken every year.

1. First year

During the first year, the learning focuses on materials and subjects that explain the tourism fact as an economic, social, and cultural element among others. It is intended that students understand and properly analyze tourism through the knowledge of its social, cultural, political, economic, legal and environmental dimension. Moreover, it is important that students get to know and understand the tourist market and major tourist political and civil service structures that shape our background.

2. Second year

Once learnt-during the first year- the basic concepts that will allow the understanding of the economic and social background of tourism, as well as the knowledge and running of tourism business and organizations in a global background, the second year is planned as an immersion into the management of tourism companies.
During this second year, the learning will be based on the acquisition of knowledge and skills for tourism management and its specific differences. Students will learn about the different areas or instrumental, operational and functional areas of companies and tourism institutions. Also, from this second year students will be able to access the European Erasmus programme for university cooperation.

3. Third year

The third and fourth years are interrelated. In fact, it is after this third year when students select one of the two specializations that the Degree offers: Tourism Management or Hospitality Management. In both areas, the students acquire knowledge and management approaches that will allow them to develop the basic decision and analysis capabilities for business management as well as tourism organizations and hotel management.
In addition, the realistic and competitive setting of the Degree will allows students to choose, during the third and fourth year, more specific paths (additional group of subjects) to facilitate knowledge and skills to improve their learning in a specific field in Tourism and obtaining a qualified diploma.

4 . Fourth year

The fourth year is a continuation and extension of the previous year in which the student consolidates competences for businesses and tourism organizations from the perspective of competitiveness and decision-making. Importantly, this fourth and final year of the Degree also becomes a bridge to the professional world.
For this reason, students continue working on skills to improve their adaptation to the labour market. Finally, a very important aspect of the fourth year is the completion of the Degree Final Project.

 


Credits/ Subjects

 

 


Practicum

Initiation Practicum (Practicum I): it is a compulsory subject starting on the second year, when students will do internships in establishments related to their area of professional specialization, establishing a first contact with the sector, allowing them to know the different job opportunities and guiding them on their professional preferences.
The Practicum referred to Hotel Management specialization will be carried out in the CETT Group own businesses.

Involvement Practicum (Practicum II): also a compulsory subject, it starts on the third year and aims at offering students hands-on training in the workplace in companies within the scope of students’ specializations, which will let them contact the real world job experience.

For students in their fourth year, there is also the option to develop their Degree Final Project in national and international establishments of the tourism sector. At the end of their degree, students must account for two internships in establishments related to the degree professional specialization of their choice.


The Companies for Practical Implementation of the CETT GROUP

The Companies for Practical Implementation of the CETT Group are real companies that have the particularity of the high degree of professionalism and commitment of their team to training. These professionals who have the regular responsibilities of their position apart from those of mentors act as guides for students throughout their practical learning, helping them to acquire skills for their professional development through the experience planned. All this, always under the supervision and co-operation of the mentors of the school.




Degree Final Project

A very important aspect of the fourth year is the completion of the Degree Final Project. This is a research and / or practice in which students, according to their professional interests and motivations deepen into some aspect of the specialization chosen. The Degree Final Project is the culmination of a four-learning academic years where the skills acquired are reflected, as well as their implementation and development.

A DFP ADAPTED TO THE STUDENT’S MOTIVATIONS

• The student develops his/her work from their participation in a research group established within the centre itself, with the direct guidance of a professor member of the team.
• The student develops his/her work from their stage in an international tourism company with the guidance of a professor of the centre.
• The student develops his/her work by participating in international academic mobility programmes and / or participating in projects carried out within dynamics of cooperation with universities in different countries.

INTERNATIONAL INTER-UNIVERSITY DEGREE FINAL PROJECT

EUHT CETT-UB offer their students the possibility to develop their Degree Final Project by participating in inter-university groups where students from different countries share together the elaboration of a research project.
This experience enables them to develop a number of interpersonal and linguistic competences as well as to go through a training process providing them with a global view within the research field in the tourism sector, thus enriching their professional curriculum.
The presentation of these projects concludes with a Students Final Meeting among the participants of the different universities involved.


DEVELOPMENT OF R+D+I PROJECTS (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) AT CETT

CETT develops research projects in order to bring tourism expertise and innovation in tourism to enable the sector to maintain and improve its competitiveness through applied research and knowledge transfer.
It also promotes collaborative research in the private sector and tourism administrations, as well as the setting of joint research agreements with other universities of international scope.

The priority work guidelines at CETT are developed in the following Expertise Areas:
• Tourism, Culture and Territory
• Hospitality
• Gastronomy

These areas are developed by groups of teachers, tourism professionals and students. This cooperative work makes a reality of the new educational methodology of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), promoting teamwork, the open participation of other students from other centres and institutes dedicated to tourism, and adapting knowledge of hospitality and tourism to the new ways of learning and pedagogy needed for the studies and research on tourism, today.