BA (Hons) Event Management
Frequently Asked Questions Why do a degree in event management? What makes a good event management degree
programme? What skills will I develop as a graduate? How do our degree courses relate to the needs of
the industry employers? Does a degree increase my employability?
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Level 1 Semester 1 Introduction to the Contemporary Tourism and Event Environment
Management and Organisations
Business Decision-Making Personal Developing Planning and IT Skills to Support Learning
Semester 2
Working with Others and Developing Self Introduction to Marketing
Sustainability Event Planning
Tourism, Events and Destinations: Impacts and Sustainability
Event Design, Planning and Creation
Tourism and Events Strand
Level 2 Semester 1
Project Management
Sustainable Business Management
Data Analysis for Research
Option Module
Planning and Managing Events: Principles to Practice
Operations Management
Option Module
Semester 2
Managing Customer Service
Sustainability Event Planning
Tourism and Events Strand
Level 2 Semester 1
Project Management
Sustainable Business Management
Data Analysis for Research
Option Module
Planning and Managing Events: Principles to Practice
Operations Management
Option Module
Semester 2
Managing Customer Service
Managing Mega-Event Destinations
Sustainability Event Planning
Tourism and Events Strand
Level 3 Semester 1
Public Relations and Sponsorship
Semester 2
Strategic Hospitality Management
Sustainability Event Planning
Marketing Communications
Applied Event Management
Developing Training Materials for Professional Development
Tourism and Events Strand
Option Module
Progression
Level 1: Introduction
Level 2: Theory
Level 3: Application
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What we offer
A High Quality & Supportive Learning Experience
A Vocational and Applied Focus
We’ll work you hard but at the same time it will be enjoyable Your learning is put into context against what is happening in the event industry
A Focus on Employability
We are here to help you get a good job! 9
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• The emphasis is on smaller groups and interactive sessions
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Embedding Scholarly Activity
Student Engagement
Staff Engagement
Employer Engagement
Key Programme Features: ď‚— Designing, conceptualising, planning and managing
your own events!
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What can we offer? ď‚— Small, friendly and supportive teaching environment ď‚— Distinct vocational and applied focus, with an emphasis
on employability
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Employability
The Employer
Knowledge & Understanding Why should I employ you? Key Skills
The Graduate
What difference would you make to my organisation?
What experience do you have?
A Focus on Employability: We are here to help you get a good job! No more: ‘but you don’t have any experience’ There is not only a strong theoretical but an applied
focus to this programme
Your learning is put into context against what is
currently happening in the wider tourism and event industries
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What can we offer? Small, friendly and supportive teaching environment Distinct vocational and applied focus, with an emphasis
on employability
Varied and ‘authentic’ approach to learning, teaching
and assessment
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What can we offer? Small, friendly and supportive teaching environment Distinct vocational and applied focus, with an emphasis
on employability
Varied and ‘authentic’ approach to learning, teaching
and assessment
Quality teaching environment and learning resources
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Best of Britain and Ireland
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What can we offer? Small, friendly and supportive teaching environment Distinct vocational and applied focus, with an emphasis
on employability
Varied and ‘authentic’ approach to learning, teaching
and assessment
Quality teaching environment and learning resources Key skills development and generic business and
management focus
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Event Volunteering: Recommended in Semester one and two (1/2) but
available to students (Event and Tourism) at all levels
Volunteering provides you with the opportunity to be
exposed to ‘live’ events of all types locally and regionally
Volunteering activities builds the foundation for the
delivery of your live events at year 2 and 3
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Event Volunteering: ď‚— Volunteering allows you the opportunity to relate
theory to practice and gain real-life work experience in solving contemporary event industry problems
ď‚— You learn from professional industry practitioners and
network with key industry players
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Event Volunteering:
Engagement with the Event Volunteer Programme is a core expectation of the degree programme
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Student Feedback
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In the first year of the degree I felt very frustrated with the high emphasis of business and tourism and felt there was no importance placed on events management, which is what I felt most passionate about. I began to feel the course wasn’t relevant to me and wasn’t allowing me to gain the skills required to be an event manager’
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Student Feedback
“Throughout year two and three I have been able to see the importance of these modules and the transferrable skills they provide. In the long run I feel I have learnt more than I would have done in a degree which focused purely on events management. I have gained business and managerial knowledge which will allow me to go into different areas of industry in the future, meaning more prospects for jobs and opportunities’
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Student Feedback
“All that ran through my mind during my first year of study at the University was ‘I’m here to study Event Management!’. I wondered when I would get to create and design my own events. Looking back, I realise how naïve this was of me to think in that way. How could someone with so little experience in the industry create and design their own event? All of these modules have taught me the key skills and tools that I will need to become a successful event manager ’
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Student Feedback
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I chose to study at the University of Chichester as the course was designed on a practical basis, in conjunction with local event providers, to ensure that all students acquire the appropriate skills and experience to be able to work within the fastest growing and most dynamic sectors of the service economy…the first year of the course is about business and management; this is designed to build upon the students’ knowledge of business based subjects such as finance and marketing because these are vital aspects of the event management industry’ 32