Hospitality and Tourism Management, BS

Degree Requirements

120 Credits Required

Departmental/Program Major Course Requirements (57-58 credits)

Students must earn a “C-“or better in all HTM courses

• HTM 10010 - Introduction To The Hospitality And Tourism Industry ♦
• HTM 14100 - Financial Accounting For The Service Industries ♦
• HTM 17300 - Introduction To Tourism Management
• HTM 18100 - Lodging Management ♦
• HTM 19100 - Sanitation And Health In Foodservice, Lodging, And Tourism ♦
• HTM 20200 - Hospitality And Tourism Work Experience
• HTM 21200 - Organization And Management In The Hospitality And Tourism Industry ♦
• HTM 23100 - Hospitality And Tourism Marketing
• HTM 24100 - Managerial Accounting And Financial Management In Hospitality Operations ♦
• HTM 29101 - Quantity Food Production And Service Laboratory
• HTM 29102 - Introduction To Foodservice Management
• HTM 30200 - Hospitality And Tourism Industry Internship (Single semester required: minimum 320 work hours for 1 credit or 640 for 2 credits)
• HTM 31200 - Human Resources Management For The Service Industries
• HTM 32200 - Hospitality Facilities Management
• HTM 34100 - Cost Controls In Foodservice And Lodging
• HTM 38110 - Revenue Management In The Lodging Industry
• HTM 41100 - Hospitality And Tourism Law
• HTM 49111 - Beverage Operation Management
• HTM 49200 - Advanced Foodservice Management
• HTM 49900 - Feasibility Studies And Business Development In Hospitality And Tourism
• HTM Selective - select from HTM Selective List - Credit Hours: 6.00

Other Departmental/Program Course Requirements (33-41 credits)

• COM 11400 - Fundamentals Of Speech Communication ♦ (satisfies Oral Communication for core)
• PSY 12000 - Elementary Psychology

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• CS 11000 - Introduction To Computers ♦ or
• CS 23500 - Introduction To Organizational Computing ♦ or
• CNIT 13600 - Personal Computing Technology And Applications ♦

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• ECON 21000 - Principles Of Economics (satisfies Human Cultures: Behavioral & Social Sciences for core) or
• AGEC 21700 - Economics ♦ (satisfies Human Cultures: Behavioral & Social Sciences for core) or
• ECON 25100 - Microeconomics ♦ (satisfies Human Cultures: Behavioral & Social Sciences for core) or
• ECON 25200 - Macroeconomics ♦ (satisfies Human Cultures: Behavioral & Social Sciences for core)

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• ENGL 10600 - First-Year Composition ♦ (satisfies Written Communication and Information Literacy for core) or
• ENGL 10800 - Accelerated First-Year Composition ♦ (satisfies Written Communication and Information Literacy for core)

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• MA 15300 - College Algebra ♦ (satisfies Quantitative Reasoning for core) or
• MA 15555 - Quantitative Reasoning  ♦ (satisfies Quantitative Reasoning for core) or
• MA 16010 - Applied Calculus I ♦ (satisfies Quantitative Reasoning for core) or
• MA 16100 - Plane Analytic Geometry And Calculus I ♦ (satisfies Quantitative Reasoning for core)

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• NUTR 20200 - Principles Of Food Preparation And Nutrition ♦ (satisfies Science for core) or
• NUTR 30300 - Essentials Of Nutrition ♦ (satisfies Science for core)

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• SOC 10000 - Introductory Sociology or
• ANTH 10000 - Introduction To Anthropology

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• STAT 22500 - Introduction To Probability Models or
• STAT 30100 - Elementary Statistical Methods

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• Science - Credit Hours: 2.00 - 4.00 (satisfies Science for core)
• Human Cultures: Humanities - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Humanities for core)
• Science, Technology & Society - Credit Hours: 1.00 - 3.00 (satisfies Science, Technology & Society for core)

Electives (21-30 credits)

• Electives - Credit Hours: 21.00-30.00

Additional Requirements

Hospitality and Tourism Management Supplemental Information  

Optional Concentrations

• Environmental Sustainability Optional Concentration for HTM  
• Finance Optional Concentration for HTM 
• Hospitality Facilities Design and Management Optional Concentration for HTM  
• Human Resources Optional Concentration for HTM  
• Marketing and Sales Optional Concentration for HTM 

University Core Requirements

• Human Cultures Humanities
• Human Cultures Behavioral/Social Science
• Information Literacy
• Science #1
• Science #2
• Science, Technology, and Society
• Written Communication
• Oral Communication
• Quantitative Reasoning

For a complete listing of course selectives, visit the Provost’s Website.

Program Requirements

Notes

• 2.0 Graduation GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.
• 32 credits of Purdue coursework at the 30000 level or above are required for graduation.

Foreign Language Courses

Foreign Language proficiency requirements vary by program. 

For acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor: American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, (ancient) Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Critical Course

The ♦ course is considered critical.

In alignment with the Degree Map Guidance for Indiana’s Public Colleges and Universities, published by the Commission for Higher Education (pursuant to HEA 1348-2013), a Critical Course is identified as “one that a student must be able to pass to persist and succeed in a particular major.  Students who want to be nurses, for example, should know that they are expected to be proficient in courses like biology in order to be successful.  These would be identified by the institutions for each degree program”. 

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