FdA Tourism
Higher Education at The College is actively promoting Foundation Degrees to Industry. As these are vocational courses it is important for us to work in partnership with interested employers who can offer short-term student placements, sit on our advisory panels, or guest speak at a lecture. This continually serves to update the quality of the courses we can bring to our students and help to produce graduates with skills recognised and needed by Industry.
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Skills for the Professional Workplace
The Tourism FdA is one of the College's longest standing and most successful Foundation Degree courses to date.
The course has the benefit of being located in one of Britain's liveliest tourist destinations. The team comprises of long-standing practised professionals in the field of Tourism. As a direct result of demand and discussion with Industry representatives, the course has evolved from a single specialism in Tourism Management to 5 different pathways.
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Work Placement
What makes a Foundation Degree distinctive to an employer is the vocational element of the course. Students are required to undertake a period of work placement within a relevant business to inform their classroom tuition with real industry experience. This also allows employers to feed into our curriculum the skills they feel future employees of their Industry should have.
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Getting Involved
Many local companies have been involved in advising us on the design of our Foundation Degrees and help us to keep course content up-to-date and industry relevant. We are always appreciative of new companies giving a short amount of their time to assist us in this design process.
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5 Tourism Pathways
FdA Tourism Management
FdA Tourism & Hospitality Management
FdA Tourism & Leisure Management
FdA Tourism & Events Management
FdA Tourism & Spa Management
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Course Units Include:
Students undertake 5 compulsory units as a group and a specialist unit each year relevant to their chosen pathway. The compulsory units include:
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Tourism Industry Environment
This unit aims to provide a broad perspective of the complex inter-relationships that exist between tourism and related service organisations and their environment.
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Organisational Behaviour
This unit provides a basis for students to identify, examine and apply a range of transferable 'people skills', which will enable them to work with, manage, lead and develop both themselves and others in tourism and other related service industries.
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Accountancy
Students gain an underlying understanding of financial recording systems, the preparation of analysis of final accounts and their relevance within tourism, hospitality, and leisure organisations.
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Marketing
This unit will provide students with an underlying understanding of marketing and its application within tourism and other related service industries.
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Human Resource Management
Students are taught the need for effective management of Human Resources within tourism, and to research, evaluate and apply a wide range of people management skills, techniques, and practices.
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