Year 4 | Option 1
Innovating the sector
During the first half of your final year (option 1), you will customise your curriculum based on your interests and ambitions. During the second half, you will work on your graduation project at a hospitality company of your choice.
Specialisations
In your final year, you can choose a specialisation depending on your interests:
- Business
- Gastronomy
- Work
- Society
- Experiences
And then you can choose a track that suits your ambitions:
- Consultant for an Industry Dilemma
- Entrepreneurship, working on your own business idea
- Consultant for a Placement Company that you will propose.
Launching Your Career (LYCar): Experiencing the sector -30 ECs
min 600 hours/15 weeks in company
Launching Your Career (LYCar) is a stepping stone to your future career and an accumulation of your previous and continuous learning. In this course you need to show you are a critical and reflective learner, who can contribute to the world as an intercultural hospitality leader. You have significant flexibility in shaping this course.
This involves actively working on two main end-products namely:
1. The LYCar project Report: This project, whether within a placement, for a company/commissioner, or your own business, allows you to problematise/solution design and apply gained knowledge. You establish your presence in a specific field through dissemination.
2. The LYCar Career Portfolio: this report showcases your professional, social, and personal development, i.e. your growth & development toward Launching Your Career, this is achieved in a comprehensive learning portfolio, including a 360 evaluation.