Campus Updates From EHL Passugg

The Revised Curriculum for the Federal Program in Higher Education at EHL Passugg

The revised EHL Passugg Curriculum for Swiss Professional Degree “Advanced Federal Diploma of Higher Education in Hospitality Management ” was launched in January 2022 on EHL Campus Passugg . It was based on the recently updated new curriculum framework for federally recognized hospitality management schools in Switzerland

As part of the adjustments , EHL Passugg has sharpened the graduate profile of the educational program and defined four roles in which students are trained for three years : Host, Communicator, Entrepreneur and Networker. A strong focus has been placed on the training of interdisciplinary competencies , which should strengthen the personality and acting skills of our students in their careers . For this purpose , EHL Passugg has developed four modules in "Affective Hospitality " in cooperation with the Center of Affective Science of the University of Geneva , which we already reported in Fall 2021. In January 2022, the first students on EHL Campus Passugg started the course . However, Affective Hospitality is much more than just a new subject

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Strengthening Resilience and the Ability to Act

We are in a time in which the voices of the wokeness movement are getting louder and louder Serious discrimination and related structural flaws should definitely be addressed through awareness raising and new frameworks . However, in certain contexts , the impression is created that the "outside" world should adapt to each individual with his or her own unique perception and sensibility, whether it is race , gender, personal boundaries , cultural background , or dietary preferences If we really tried to avoid offending and hurting people at all costs through more and more policies , rules , and behavioral guidelines , taking everything and everyone into account, we would probably have very little room to maneuver over the next few years .

The four modules of Affective Hospitality, therefore , aim to train the awareness of self - responsibility and to strengthen resilience and one' s own ability to act. The basis for this is , first of all , the understanding of the nature and tasks of emotions ( Module 1: Emotion understanding ) and the training of self - awareness and self - regulation ( Module 2: Emotion regulation ). The awareness that each person

, must first be digested experience and reality. On this basis others are practiced ( Module 3: Emotion recognition is taught ( Module 4: Emotion management