HST250 Seminars & Work Experience in Hospitality

This course combines practical work experience in the student's chosen hospitality specialty along with weekly hospitality seminars with professional speakers from all areas of the vast hospitality industry. A representative of speakers include practitioners in hotel management, food service management, small business food supplier management, travel agency management, event management, banquet management, human resource management, and the North of Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau and New Hampshire Tourism Bureau. Topics may include: sanitation, hospitality law, hospitality accounting, interpersonal communications, hospitality management, hiring and firing practices, entrepreneurship, current trends in hospitality and the new antiterrorism mandates and how they impact the hospitality industry. The student will also be enrolled in an internship four hours a week in their hospitality specialty.