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The Hospitality Management Diploma Program provides you with marketing and management skills associated with lodging and restaurant operations. This program offers an opportunity to expand your marketing and management knowledge and practice so you’ll be ready for further education or management training programs.
Make valuable contacts and secure paid work as part of the program’s work experience component. Many of our students get hired for seasonal jobs – or permanent full-time jobs as graduates – at our Career Days hiring fair every spring.
Graduate job-ready with the Business Internship program
Complete projects in the modern workplace with the Business Internship Program.
Further studies
Planning to continue your education into a degree? The Hospitality Diploma Program transfers directly into our Bachelor of Business Administration in Management degree which offers a concentration in Hospitality Management. You’ll learn essential business skills in finance, economics, business strategy and more. This program also receives transfer credit to third and fourth-year degree programs at universities across Canada. To ensure your courses transfer, see the BC Transfer Guide.
NOTE: Students beginning the program in the Summer semester should note that only non-Hospitality Management (HOSP) courses will be available. HOSP courses are offered in the Fall and Winter semesters.
Applicants must meet the admission requirements listed below:
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Graduation Requirements For Students Completing By Summer 2023:
Graduation Requirements For Students Completing After Summer 2023:
Course Requirements:
| Course Number | Course Title | Credits |
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Required courses: |
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Tourism Business Structure |
3.00 |
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Introductory Food Management |
3.00 |
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Food and Beverage Service Operations |
3.00 |
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Business Law |
3.00 |
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Excel for Business |
3.00 |
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Introductory Marketing |
3.00 |
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Select one course from the following two options: |
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Principles of Accounting I |
3.00 |
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HOSP 1210 (recommended) |
Accounting Principles |
3.00 |
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Select one course from the following two options: |
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Workplace Communications for Selected Programs |
3.00 |
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CMNS 1115* (recommended) |
Business Communication |
3.00 |
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Select one course from the following three options: |
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ECON 1101** (recommended) |
The Canadian Economy |
3.00 |
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Principles of Microeconomics |
3.00 |
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Principles of Macroeconomics |
3.00 |
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Select one course from the following six options: |
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Reading Literature and Culture |
3.00 |
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Reading Fiction |
3.00 |
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Reading Poetry |
3.00 |
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Reading Plays |
3.00 |
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Academic Writing |
3.00 |
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Studies in Canadian Literature |
3.00 |
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Select one course from the following two options: |
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Commercial & Financial Mathematics |
3.00 |
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Introduction to Statistics |
3.00 |
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Required Courses: |
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Front Desk Operations |
3.00 |
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HOSP 2255 (Winter only) |
Beverage Management |
3.00 |
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Hospitality Management Accounting |
3.00 |
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Food and Beverage Cost Controls |
3.00 |
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Hospitality Sales and Advertising |
3.00 |
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HOSP 2445 (Fall only) |
Hospitality & Accommodations Management |
3.00 |
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Hospitality Business Policy |
3.00 |
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Event Management |
3.00 |
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Human Resource Management |
3.00 |
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Total Credits |
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60.00 |
*Select asterix courses if you want to pursue the Bachelor of Business Administration track.
**ECON 1101 is recommended over ECON 1150. Please note that some university-transfer programs require ECON 1150.
Program Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this program and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the program, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Special Academic Requirements
To maintain Full Time status in the Hospitality Management Diploma program students must meet the following criteria:
1. Must register in a minimum of 12 credits per semester;
and
2. Achieve a minimum grade of “P” in all registered academic courses for which there is no prerequisite and a minimum grade of C- in which the course is a prerequisite.
If any of the above criteria are not met, students may be placed on Part Time Status. Failure to register into any HOSP program courses in any semester may result in removal from the Hospitality Management Diploma program. Students removed from the HOSP program can re-apply after one year.
Part-Time
Course registration is prioritized for full-time students. Part-time students will have access to courses where seats are available. This may sometimes cause delays in progress through the program for part-time students.
Students must meet prerequisite grade of C- or better and finish first-year courses prior to registering into second-year courses or receive written permission of the Department Chair. Second-year courses are reserved for students having met prerequisites and completed first-year courses.
The program is designed to be completed in two years over four semesters - five courses per semester. Taking fewer than five courses per semester will leave you behind and having to complete courses during the summer or at other institutions should space not be available in HOSP. Full-time students taking three or less courses per semester will be re designated as Part Time.
Work Hours Graduation Requirement
Prior to graduating from the program, students must show proof of having completed at least 500 hours of paid hotel or restaurant experience.
Tuition Deposit
When offered a full-time seat in this program a non-refundable, non-transferable $350 tuition deposit is required.
Career opportunities include: