Bachelor of Hotel Management

at Southern Institute of Technology

Year One 
 

• COM540 Professional Communication
• HTM501Introduction to Tourism
• HTM505 Food and Beverage Management
• HTM506 Financial Analysis for Tourism and Hospitality
• HTM507 Hotel Operations
• HTM509 Hospitality Service Delivery Systems
• MAN535 Principles of Human Resource Management
• MKT571 Principles of Marketing 
   

Year Two 
 

• HTM601 Contemporary Tourism
• HTM606 Financial Management for Business
• HTM607 Employment Relations and Law for Tourism and Hospitality
• HTM608 Entrepreneurship
• HTM610 Facilities Management in Hospitality
• MAN632 Operations Management
• MAN633 Human Resource Development
• MKT676 Services Management and Marketing 
   

Year Three 
 

Compulsory Papers

• HTM704 Contemporary Issues in Hotel Management
• HTM720 Internship Study
• MKT776 Event Management
   

Students unable to secure an Internship can choose to complete papers instead of the Internship to a total of 60 credits. The papers chosen must be from the business papers in the School of Business, approved by the Programme Manager and include:
 

• HTM725 – Applied Research Project in Hotel Management (30 credits)
• 15 credits at Level 7
• 15 credits at Level 6 or Level 7
   

Elective Papers - two papers to be selected from the list below
 

• CON759 Contemporary Issues
• ETH760 Business Ethics
• HTM706 Sustainability in Tourism
• IBS790 International Business
• MAN734 Strategic Management
• MAN735 Advanced HRM
• MKT772 Strategic Marketing
• WPE700 Workplace Experience
   

Elective 1 - Elective Paper (to be approved by Programme Manager)
 

Year 3 Elective papers may be taken from a degree other than SIT Bachelor of Hotel Management.
 

Year 3 Elective paper descriptors can be found under the relevant programme on the SIT Intranet, Academic Board link.
 

Prerequisites may apply to elective papers

School Leavers
 

University Entrance - NCEA Level 3: three subjects at Level 3, made up of:

• 14 credits each, in three NZQA University Entrance approved subjects, and
• Literacy – 10 credits at Level 2 or above, made up of five credits in reading and five credits in writing, and
• Numeracy – 10 credits at Level 1 or above, made up of specified achievement standards through a range of subjects, or a package of three numeracy unit standards (26623, 26626, 26627 – all three required)
   

Mature Applicants
 

The entry requirements noted above may be applicable to mature entry applicants.  Adults over the age of 20 years who do not have the minimum entry requirements may be admitted if they can satisfy the teaching institution they are capable of studying at this level and have a reasonable chance of successfully completing each paper attempted.
 

English Language Requirements
 

Applicants, whose first language is not English, or who come from a country where the language of instruction in schools is not English, are required to provide evidence of having achieved one of the following

• NCEA Level 3 with University Entrance, or
• an International Baccalaureate Diploma or Cambridge A- level qualification for which the teaching and assessment was conducted in English; or
• Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA),or Trinity College London Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CertTESOL);or
• Successful completion of all primary education (being the equivalent of New Zealand primary school years 1 to 8) and at least three years of secondary education (being the equivalent of three years from New Zealand secondary school years 9 to 13) at schools in either New Zealand,,Australia,Canada, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States one of the countries listed in Rule 18.5 where the student was taught using English as the language of instruction; or
• Successful completion of at least five years of secondary education (being the equivalent of New Zealand secondary school years 9 to 13) at schools in either New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States where the student was taught using English as the language of instruction; or
• Successful completion of a Bachelor's Degree, Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, Bachelor Honours degree, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, Masters' Degree or Doctoral Degree, the language of instruction of which must be in English and which must be from a tertiary education provider from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom or the United States or
• Successful completion of one of the following internationally recognised proficiency tests listed below to the level required of the programme of study and with all scores achieved in a single test during the two years preceding the proposed date of enrolment
  
   
• IELTS test - Academic score of 6 with no band score lower than 5.5
• TOEFL Paper based test (pBT) - Score of 550 (with an essay score 5 TWE)
• TOEFL Internet based test (iBT) - Score of 60 (with a writing score of 18)
• Cambridge English Examination - B2 First or B2 First for schools or C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency with a score of 169. No less than 162 in each skill.
• OET - Minimum of Grade C or 200 in all sub-tests
• NZCEL - a) Expiring Level b) Current: a) Level 4 (Academic) b) Level 4 (Academic)
• Pearson Test of English (Academic) - PTE (Academic) score of 50 with no band score lower than 42
• Language Cert - C1 Expert International ESOL Written (LRW) PASS with no less than 25/50 in each skill and Spoken (S) PASS
• Trinity ISE - ISE II with no less than distinction in any band

Bachelor Degrees    NZ$19,600    Per academic year

Graduates of the Bachelor of Hotel Management will be well suited for employment in a supervisory or management capacity within the accommodation, hospitality and tourism related sectors, including hotels, resorts, restaurants and convention centres.
 

Recent graduates of the Bachelor of Hotel Management have gained employment in accommodation, hospitality and tourism, and been promoted to supervisory positions with their current employers, or even successfully started their own small businesses.