This course is designed to enhance the knowledge, skills and attitude in bread and pastry production to prepare and present desserts; prepare and display petits four in accordance with industry standards. It covers the basic, common and core competencies.

Globalization and its impact on individuals, communities and nations, challenges and responses


The course deals with the principles and practices in marketing goods and services. It is also focuses on the
development of integrated marketing programs that will help grow businesses. 

This course deals with the fundamental principles, tools, and techniques of the financial operations involved in the management of business enterprises. It covers the basic framework and tools for financial analysis and financial planning and control, and introduces basic concepts and principles needed in making investments and personal finance are also covered in the course. Using the dual learning approach of theory and application, each chapter and module engages the learners to explored all stages of the learning process from knowledge, analysis, evaluation and application to preparation and development of financial plans and programs suited for a small business.


The tourism and hospitality industry operates within a comprehensive domestic and international, legal and regulatory framework. This course examines this framework and covers the key principles of law applicable to hospitality, tourism and related industries.  Various legislation on business organization and several international law issues such as consumer protection, product and service liability, employment and law access to the natural environment will be covered.
Topics include: national and international regulation of the travel and hospitality industry; consumer contracts law; the law of carriers and inns; the duties of travel operators and agents; travel insurance law; the law of bailment; the responsibilities of the travel agents and tour operators; hotel management law; liquor licensing law; catering law; gaming law; marketing law; consumer rights and complaints; the law regulating payments; (including international credit card payments); the finance of carriers and inns; criminal and civil liability of people working in the travel and tourism industry. This course also examines the law regulating the issuance of visa and travel documentation and considers the liability  of the operators, agents, carriers and government instrumentalities in relation to health and safety issues (including acts of terrorism).

This course describes the skills, knowledge and performance outcomes required to develop a research orientation among students and to acquaint them with fundamentals of research methods like qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods research approaches that will lead in the production of good, timely and relevant research  study. It also encompasses the critical understanding on identifying and assessing ethical issues related to research, the awareness and benefits of research in the field of interest and its help in their future career, in the society or community and in the local and global environment.

This course will cover the workings, operations, and the integrative activities of major stakeholders in the Tourism and Hospitality industry. The students will also gain knowledge on managing and marketing a service-oriented business organization. Apart from the scope and structure of the travel organizations, it provides an in-depth study of the nature and distinctive characteristics of each sector of the entire tourism industry focusing on the management, organization and planning of specific business strategies for the various entities in the local setting. This will also involve the analysis of the possible impacts of external factors and trends on the different tourism industry sectors and specific types of businesses. It will also took into client profiling such as travel motivations and influences as it relates to aligning strategic and tactical solutions to the business. The course also identifies the employment opportunities available in each sector and the corresponding qualifications for the jobs.

This course will equip students with the necessary skills to develop actual marketing campaigns for a business with the tourism and hospitality industry. Emphasis is on the analysis of the market, its competition and its product; preparation of a financial budget and the development of short-term and long-range strategies to achieve desired profit through effective advertising, sales and an effective public relations plan.