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 Diploma
in Hotel Management
Organisation
of subjects and credits
Credits
per academic year
Optional subjects
Languages
Acknowledgement of best projects for
each subject
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Credits
Students
need 207 credits to complete the course, in accordance with the following
guidelines:
First year
Second year
- Compulsory
57 credits
- Optional
4.5 credits
- Free choice
12 credits
Third
year
- Compulsory
45 credits
- Optional
13.5 credits
- Free choice
9 credits
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Optional
subjects for each itinerary
Students
may organise their curriculum by choosing from the subjects on offer each
academic year, and by using the following subjects as a guideline:
Second
and third year
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Recognition of activities as free choice credits
A
maximum of 4.5 credits can be recognised. In accordance with UAB regulations,
each centre may decide how many credits can be recognised according to
its student profile.
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Languages
Language
subjects (English, French and German) will be taken in accordance with
the following guidelines:
- For successful
completion of language subjects, the school expects students to fulfil
course aims and reach "Upper Intermediate" level, which accredits they
are able to:
- Hold
conversations with native speakers, at an acceptable level of fluency,
using current expressions particular to the given language.
- Participate
in discussions debates or dialogues concerning subjects of general
interest, expressing points of view and opinions of a certain complexity.
- Follow
the gist of conferences, debates and public speeches, with the ability
to take relevant notes on the subject being exposed.
- Write
a variety of short texts at an acceptable level of correctness,
using a style relevant to the context. Such texts include formal
and informal letters, narrative or descriptive texts, instructions,
etc.
- Read
a variety of text types, following the general meaning with the
aid of dictionaries or other reference materials. Such reading texts
include informative texts, expressing opinions, texts designed for
consultation, texts of a literary nature, etc.
- To determine
whether students have reached the level required by the school, an assessment
test will be carried out by the UAB Modern Language Service in accordance
with its regulations.
- With
a view to assigning students to their correct level, these tests
will be administered in accordance with UAB Language Service's regulations.
- On enrolment,
first year students can choose from six credits for English and six
credits for French or German, as optional subjects..
- In the
second year, six credits for English and six credits for French
or German (120 hours) are offered to further students' language
development during their studies towards the diploma.
- In the
third year, English and French or German are offered as compulsory
subjects, with 6 credits each (120 hours).
By
the end of the course, students will have taken 36 language credits (360
hours).
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Acknowledgement
of best projects for each subject
The
centre wishes to acknowledge students' coursework. To this end, special
recognition is given to the best projects, according to the following
criteria:
- Each subject
teacher should choose between one and four projects from those presented
by his/her students. Teachers are free not to make a choice if they
consider that the projects do not fulfil their original aims.
- All selected
projects will be announced in the school's yearbook.
- The teacher
and the centre's director will issue a certificate recognising students'
work as the best project of the subject and year concerned.
- These projects
will be placed in the school's Resource Centre and will form part of
its archives.
- Among all
the projects that have been selected, the teaching staff and the Director
of Studies will choose two. These projects' authors will have the chance
to display them during the annual meeting which the school organises
with its Professional Development Programme's collaborating companies
and institutions.
- In all cases,
students and participating teachers' rights regarding ownership and
copyright will be respected.
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