Sydney Internship: Hospitality Administration Special Curriculum: Curriculum
Overview
Students take a required course, an elective course, and a 400-hour internship, including a non-unit HUB co-curricular. Boston University students will fulfill the Work Experience II requirement (SHA HF 240) and the International Experience requirement (SHA HF 440).
Session One
Week 1–Week 7
Students enroll in one required course and begin their internship placement.
Required Course
All students in the Internship Program take this course during the first six weeks.
CAS AN 368 Australian Culture & Society
Major focus on Australia’s global and national development as a multicultural nation with European roots, traditional western alliances and an imagined future in the Asia-Pacific region. The themes of continuity and change in relation to the Aboriginal population are explored in some detail.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Historical Consciousness
Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Research and Information Literacy
Internship Placement
Hospitality Administration
Students participate in an internship placement, working in organizations in and around Sydney four days per week for the entire duration of the program. Students gain experience in the hospitality industry in the areas of hotel administration, events, restaurants/catering, marketing, HR, or finance. Past internship placements have included Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG), Flave, Livelo, and The Old Clare Hotel. Placements are contingent upon the student’s past experiences, professional interest, and available opportunities in any given semester; flexibility is essential.
Week 8 (Mid-term Break)
Session Two
Week 9-Week 15
In session two students will continue with their internship and choose from one of the following elective courses. They also continue with their internship placement.
Elective Course
COM FT 345 Australian Cinema
Australia produced The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), the world’s first full-length feature film. This course follows the local industry from a national to international identity, highlighting distinctly Australian characters alongside themes of city, bush and the outback.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Philosophical Inquiry & Life’s Meaning
Aesthetic Exploration
CAS AH 374 Australian Art & Architecture
Australia owns the world’s oldest continuing art tradition (indigenous Australian art) and the youngest tradition. This course focuses on key artists, in an historical and an international context, against themes of landscape, urbanism, abstraction, realism, the noble savage, and modernism.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Aesthetic Exploration
Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
COM CO 350 Mass Media in Australia
Contemporary issues associated with Australian mass media and film. Key areas of film, television, print, advertising, and radio, plus media ownership and government legislation in Australia. The emphasis of the course will be on current Australian media and film production.
Units: 4
CAS EE 328 Australian Points of View Toward Global Environmental Challenges
The course explores the way people form viewpoints toward the environment and how this thinking manifests in practice. The current, urgent challenges that face our environmental systems require exploration of these attitudes through the lens of individual, community, corporate, non-government organisations and government levels as well as through indigenous perspectives.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Ethical Reasoning
Social Inquiry II
CAS HI 356 Empires and Soft Power: A History of International Relations and Sport in the Pacific Rim
This course explores the cultural, economic, diplomatic, and legal developments in sport in the region as a background to building management skills. While the course has a focus on understanding these elements with a view to informing sport management, it will also interest those who want to understand the interplay of the myriad nations of the region through cultural, diplomatic, legal, political, and other areas using the sport industry as a lens.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
QST MK 467 International Marketing Management
Prerequisite: QST MK 323 Marketing Management.
Develops a critical appreciation of both the opportunities and challenges associated with the increasing globalization of markets. Students learn about the key environmental forces shaping the needs and preferences of the global consumer and the impact of foreign, political, and economic factors on the marketing mix.
Units: 4
CAS CS 411 Software Engineering
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASCS112
Introduction to the construction of reliable software. Topics may include software tools, software testing methodologies, retrofitting, regression testing, structured design and structured programming, software characteristics and quality, complexity, entropy, deadlock, fault tolerance, formal proofs of program correctness, chief program teams, and structured walk-throughs.
Units: 4
BU Hub areas:
Teamwork/Collaboration
Internship Course
Study Abroad will enroll students in a non-unit Hub co-curricular and a four-unit internship course, which includes a classroom component. Upon successful completion of the internship experience, students will receive a Hub requirement in the area Individual in Community from the co-curricular HUB SA 330.
HUB SA 330Study Abroad Internship
This course is a Non-unit Hub Co-curricular.
Units: 0
BU Hub areas:
Individual in Community
SHA HF 390 Field Placement in Hospitality Administration
Units: 4
Students continue their internship placement while taking the internship course.
