Year 4 | Option 1

Innovating the sector

During the first half of your final year (option 1), you will choose a minor. During the second half, you will work on your graduation project at a hospitality company of your choice.

Minor (12 ECs)

In your minor we will prepare you for the future of the hospitality industry. In your minor you will study a relevant theme in the industry from a multi-disciplinary perspective. You will tackle issues that keep the industry awake at night. You can choose between different themes:

  • Minor Future of Food
  • Minor Future Guest Experience
  • Minor Future of Business
  • Minor Future of Work
  • Minor Future of Digitalisation

English (3 ECs)

During this course (C1 level) you will put social and language skills into practice needed to deal with business/ hospitality-related situations, for example professional email/ report writing; essay writing and proposal writing, as well as verbal skills like discussion and presentation on similar topics/themes.

Launching Your Career (LYCar) Proposal (15 ECs)

During the first phase in Launching your Career (LYCar), the proposal phase, you will either focus first on working within a placement company and then working on a specific project within the company, or focus on working on a specific project for a company (a research assignment) and then start your placement after, or focus on setting up your own business. You will share your planning on both the research assignment and your required development during LYCar with your coach and peers.

Launching Your Career (LYCar) Execution (30 ECs)

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.