Curriculum ‐ Hospitality Management B.Com

Stenden South Africa offers a full-time, three-year course of ‘Hospitality Management’. The course aims at fulfilment of management positions in organisations with service and hospitality as their essential function or as an important part of the complete organisation. Graduates receive a ‘Bachelor of Commerce in Hospitality Management degree’. Stenden South Africa is registered with the Department of Education as a private higher education institution under the Higher Education Act, 1977, and according to registration Certificate No. 2002/HE10/001, to offer the Bachelor of Commerce in Hospitality Management. This is a three year degree programme to the value of 414 credits. The programme is registered with SAQA with the qualification ID number 63710.

The course content is provided by the programme International Hospitality Management (IHM) of Stenden University Netherlands. The educational programme has been registered in the Centraal Register Opleidingen Hoger Onderwijs (CROHO, Central Register of Schools for Higher Education) under number 34411 full-time. Stenden University also offers a Masters degree in Hospitality Management.

The curriculum is divided into the following subjects groups: 

  1. Economics, including Managerial Accounting, Financial Management, Financial Accounting and General Economics
  2. Marketing, including services marketing, services management, and marketing research.
  3. Operations Management, including Facilities Management, Quality Management, Project Management, and Change Management;
  4. Human Resources Management, including Self Management (career development);
  5. Law, including eight subdivisions;
  6. Research, including methodology, statistics, and operational research;
  7. Interculturalisation, including Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Sensitivity, Intercultural Competence, and Intercultural Management;
  8. Languages and Communication, including speaking and listening, writing, reading, and intrapersonal skills;
  9. Operations Management Food & Beverage including Food Production, Beverage Production, and Food & Beverage Service;
  10. Operations Management Rooms Division, including Front Office and Housekeeping Management

 

For our study programmes, students can start twice per year, in January and July. All new students are expected to attend the Orientation Weeks, which start prior to the start of the first module of the programme. Orientation and introduction information is sent to all applicants who have been accepted.