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HOSP 1620: Hospitality Computer Applications
Effective date
September 2023
Department
Hospitality Management
School
Hospitality, Food Studies and Applied Business
Description
This course provides students opportunities to use MSOffice applications such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and introduces online collaboration tools and POS/PMS (Point of Sale/Property Management Systems) to perform digital workplace tasks in the hospitality industry. Emphasis is placed on financial and informational applications to produce sales and marketing documents, presentations and financial spreadsheets. Students demonstrate hospitality competencies by completing assignments using the selected computer software applications.
Credits
3.0
Year of study
1st Year Post-secondary
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Communicate effectively using documents, presentations and spreadsheets
- Use Microsoft Word to create, format, edit and save documents that include text, images, lists and Tables of Contents
- Design informative and persuasive presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint
- Create, manipulate and analyze financial data, create charts using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
- Collaborate utilizing online applications
- Examine Point of Sale (POS)
- Practice (at an introductory level) Property Management Systems (PMS)
Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)
To learn more about the PLAR pathways for this course review the Hospitality Management Diploma Program Content Guide.
Hours
Lecture, Online, Seminar, Tutorial: 45
Total Hours: 45
Total Hours: 45
Instructional Strategies
In-person and online lectures, demonstrations, quizzes and weekly lab assignments
Grading System
Letter Grade (A-F)
Passing grade
D (50%)
Evaluation Plan
|
Type |
Percentage |
Assessment activity |
|
Participation |
10 |
Actively contributes to course discussions and activities |
|
Assignments |
30 |
|
|
Quizzes/Tests |
15 |
Lecture/textbook quizzes |
|
Exam |
15 |
Unit 1 exam |
|
Exam |
15 |
Unit 2 exam |
|
Final Exam |
15 |
Unit 3 final exam |
Course topics
- Email expectations and etiquette
- Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Creating, editing and formatting documents, presentations and spreadsheets
- Hospitality-related documents such as menus, business cards, global tourism destinations, accommodation presentations, budgets, catering estimates, data analysis
- Small team work to produce online documents, presentations and spreadsheets
- Various media such as internal and online video, animation, images, charts, sound and narration
- Property Management System (PMS)
Notes:
- Course contents and descriptions, offerings and schedules are subject to change without notice.
- Students are required to follow all College policies including ones that govern their educational experience at VCC. Policies are available on the VCC website at:
https://www.vcc.ca/about/governance--policies/policies/. - To find out if there are existing transfer agreements for this course, visit the BC Transfer Guide at https://www.bctransferguide.ca.