HMGT 554

Focus on management history, planning, organizing, leadership, and current and future management issues. The course requires students to compare rooms division management in a large hotel with that of a small hotel, including reservations, front desk operations and accounting, housekeeping, and auxiliary functions. The complexities and the terminology of the design, management, and maintenance of physical structures used by civil engineers and architects are integral to the course. Guest lecturers include hotel general managers and department heads who highlight students projects. Pre- or Coreq: HMGT 401.