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Hospitality - Hospitality Management - Hotel, Restaurant and Resort

2-year, Ontario College Diploma Program

Program Info

The hospitality industry offers scores of rewarding career opportunities. Each of these important positions requires active personalities, specific technical and social skills, specialized knowledge and a real drive for success. Our goal-oriented program will prepare students to enter the hospitality industry to take steps, which may, over a period of time, lead them to supervisory or managerial positions in hotels, motels, resorts, restaurants, and allied institutions. The courses offered in this curriculum are directed towards the preparation of such a career.

Students augment their classroom training with actual on-the-job work as part of the fieldwork program. This gives them an in-depth insight into the hospitality business.

All Hospitality Management students are required to conform to a strict code of dress, grooming and conduct during their enrolment in the program and their liaison with the business community. The objective of the program is to provide men and women with both liberal and professional training for the hospitality industry. In addition to the normal expenditures for textbooks, supplies and clothing, the student will also be required to purchase uniforms.

Employment Opportunities: 

After some years of experience, graduates have found employment as hotel managers, general managers, restaurant managers, country club managers, food services managers, banquet managers, catering consultants, cruise ship food and beverage management, executive housekeepers, food and beverage managers, golf course/country club managers, seasonal resort managers, purchasing agents, sales representatives in hotels or allied industries and beverage controllers, front office managers, and fast food operations managers.

Admission Requirements: 
  1. Ontario Secondary School Diploma (or equivalent) with courses from the College (C), University (U), University/College (U/C), or Open (O) preparation levels.
  2. or Successful Completion of the Mature Student Assessment.
  3. or appropriate credits from Academic and Career Entrance (ACE).

Additional Courses Required: Grade 12 College or University Preparation English.

Recommended Courses: any second language

Applicants not meeting these admission requirements are encouraged to consider the College Access or General Arts and Science Certificate or Diploma programs; students who successfully complete one of these programs would be eligible to apply to programs in the Business, Hospitality and Media Arts areas.

Selection Criteria: 

Physical & Other Demands:

The occupation can entail long hours of standing and working in heat, lifting up to 50 pounds, climbing stairs, balancing and carrying large service trays of food and beverages.

 

Note: Participation in this program could include the necessity for travel outside Canada. Please ensure that you access a passport prior to entry into this program.

 

Articulation Agreements: 

Graduates from this program are eligible to access articulation agreements with the following universities:

  • University of Lethbridge - Alberta

For more information on Articulation Agreements

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Do you have significant & relevant experience?

Ask about Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR) - a mechanism to offer credits for learning acquired through study, work, volunteering and other life experiences that are not recognized through formal transfer credit mechanisms.