HFT 2942 - Hospitality Internship

Hospitality and Tourism Department

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 180
Effective Term Fall 2023 (625)

Requisites

Prerequisite HFT 1941 with a minimum grade of C and
Permission of the Program

Course Description

This course enables students to enhance workplace skills through supervised practical experience. Sixty (60) industry work hours equal one credit hour. In addition, the students must complete assignments as well as a term project. Faculty make regular appraisals of the learning progress through on-site visits and consultations with supervisors. To view the specific requirements and process to enroll in this course, please see your program’s internship course checklist.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will apply classroom knowledge in the workplace by working in a hospitality environment for a minimum of 8 hours per week.
  2. The student will develop an understanding of the hospitality workplace by:
    1. displaying professional attitudes and performing successfully on-the-job as measured by satisfactory evaluations.
    2. writing an essay to evaluate the on the job experience.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 80% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

C&I 10/26/99, DBT 11/16/99, Eff 19992. 3 Year Review 2003. 3 Year Review 2008. C&I Approval: 07/12/2005, BOT Approval: 08/23/2005, Effective Term: Fall 2008 (400).
C&I Approval: 11/20/2015, BOT Approval: 03/15/2016, Effective Term: Fall 2023 (625)

Related Programs

  1. Food and Beverage Management (FBM-CT) (535) (Active)
  2. Hospitality and Tourism Management (HMGT-AS) (640) (Active)
  3. Rooms Division Management (RDM-CT) (535) (Active)