Welcome to the Bachelor’s programme in Tourism
Tourism is now one of the most promising, dynamic and profitable sectors of the economy, it allows people to get acquainted with the world cultural heritage, teaches peace and tolerance, and offers opportunities for economic growth and improvement of life standards in Ukraine. Today, our country needs highly qualified young tourism professionals who would be able to significantly improve the level of tourist services and their daily work to create and maintain a positive image of Ukraine as a country of great cultural and natural resources.
Mission of the programme ‘Tourism’ (Bachelor’s degree) is training of fully qualified, socially responsible professionals in Tourism who possess all-round basic professional knowledge and skills corresponding to the demands of the modern labour market in order to ensure competitiveness of domestic companies and Ukraine’s economy under the conditions of globalisation. We incorporate European approaches and quality standards of higher education.
Educational goals of the programme
General goal of the study programme ‘Tourism’ (Bachelor’s degree) is to provide basic knowledge and practical skills, to form general and professional competencies for the successful implementation of professional activities in the field of recreation and tourism, which is the basis of competitiveness of graduates.
Here you will find information about the Bachelor’s programme in Tourism at Alfred Nobel University (Dnipro, Ukraine).
Contact
Associate Professor Halyna Miasoid
Head of the Department of International Tourism, Hotel & Restaurant Business and Foreign Language Training
Sicheslavska Naberezhna str., 18, Dnipro, 49000, Ukraine Of. 3210, 3201
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Profile
Mode of study: full time
Duration: Four years
Degree awarded: Bachelor’s degree
Language of study: Ukrainian, English
Results of mastery of the study programme: acquisition of basic knowledge of fundamental and applied courses/disciplines necessary for competence of Bachelors in Tourism in domestic and foreign markets
Professional knowledge and skills obtained as a result of completing the programme:
A. Knowledge and understanding
Conceptual knowledge acquired in the process of study and professional activity, including certain information and knowledge on modern achievements. Critical understanding of new theories, principles, methods and notions in the course of study and professional activity.
On successful completion of the programme a student should be able to:
1) Know and understand and apply main Tourism Law Previsions, national and international standards of tourism service
2) Know and understand and apply main basic notions of tourism theory, organization of tourism process, activity of subjects of tourism service market, as well as the concepts of worldview and related sciences.
3) Know and understand main types and form of tourism, their classification,
4) Explain the peculiarities of recreational-and- tourism environment organization /structure
5) Analyse recreational-and- tourism potential of a territory,
6) Understand principles, processes and technologies of the activity of a subject of tourism business as well as its sub-systems (administrative, managerial, social-and-psychological, business, technical-and-technological).
B. Application of knowledge and understanding
On completion of the programme students will be able to:
1) perform professional tasks in uncertain and extremal situations in specialized spheres of professional activity and/or study, that envisages gathering and interpreting information(data), selecting specific methods and instruments, using innovative approaches.
2) Use in practice principles and organizational methods and technologies of tourist service.
3) Develop, promote and sell tourism product.
4) Identify tourism documents and use them properly.
5) Organize the process of tourist service using modern information, communication and service technologies abiding standards of quality and safety norms.
6) Evaluate adequately knowledge acquired and use it in various professional situations.
7) Form and improve the system of management at a tourism enterprise, enhance its activity, manage the staff, motivate and stimulate subordinates, control and regulate operative actions.
8) Analyse and set professional tasks using computer technologies, search for new information in modern printed and internet sources, using adequate searching engines, methods and systems.
C. Making judgments
On successful completion of the programme a student should be able to:
1) The ability to analyse and set professional tasks using computer technologies, search for new information in modern printed and internet sources, using adequate searching engines, methods and systems,
2) determine the peculiarities of economic and financial mechanism of business entities in tourism industry: analyse and manage potential resources, scope of activities, financial results of tourism enterprises and justify tourism enterprises investment activity
3) correctly determine factors and consequences of macroeconomic development of business systems according to the goals and priorities of economic policy in travel industry, correctly analyse causes and progress of business processes, make grounded decisions on economic problems,
4) analyse functional, sectoral and territorial structure of a tourist-recreational complex, the development of tourist-recreational regions, to collect, process, analyse and classify information about tourism, summarize domestic and foreign experience in issues of tourism and recreational activity,
5) analyse and formulate a professional task using computer technologies, find new information contained in various print and electronic sources using appropriate search methods and systems,
6) Identify tourism documents and use them properly.
D. Communication skills
On successful completion of the programme a student should be able to:
1) respect individual and cultural variety,
2) act according to principles of social responsibility and consciousness,
3) Speak state and foreign languages at the level sufficient to perform professional duties,
4) use skills of productive communication with the consumers of tourism services,
5) substantiate effectively one’s own views while solving professional tasks,
6) contact experts of tourism business and other branches of economy,
7) choose the most adequate information media and channels of communication with consumers and business partners, to express own thoughts and believes in clear, logic and consistent manner, argue, discuss business, support harmonious network of private and business contacts, resist manipulations, overcome the barriers in communication.
E. Learning skills
On completion of the programme students will be able:
1) manage own education with the aim of self-realization in professional tourism area
2) think broadly about alternative principles and methods of professional tasks discharge
3) stand own ground concerning professional tasks discharge
4) define problematic situations and offer ways of their solution
5) carry out professional tasks in extreme situations and force majeure circumstances
6) make reasonable decisions and bear personal responsibilities for results of professional activities.
We offer you:
- An internationally recognized, practically based education in Tourism
- Modern forms of teaching and learning which correspond to European standards and the Bologna Declaration
- Courses taught by experienced lecturers and professors who have completed internships at leading universities in Western Europe
- Master classes conducted by business experts and consultants from business schools
- Mastery of information systems and technologies in the field of marketing by using up- to-date software products
- The opportunity to study German, French, Spanish and Polish on an optional basis
- A modern library and up-to-date study literature
Programme Structure
240 ECTS credits. Mandatory courses 169.5 ECTS credits, elective courses 60 ECTS credits. Practical training which includes internship 16.5 ECTS credits*. The Final Examination or Bachelor thesis
- the ratio of credits between parts of the programme may vary slightly from year to year.
Professionally Oriented Courses Offered
- Foreign Language for Specific Purposes
- Tourism Geography (Tourist Country Studies, Tourist Resources of Ukraine)
- Organization of Tourism: Fundamentals of Hospitality Industry
- Economics and Pricing in Tourism
- Organization of Tourism: History of Tourism
- Organization of Tourism: Excursion Science. Organization of Excursion Activities.
- Economics and Pricing in Tourism
- International Quality Standards in Service Sector
- Tourism Management (Technologies of Tourism Activities)
- Recreation and Leisure Studies (Tourism Resources of Ukraine))
- Fundamentals of Economics
- Advertising and PR in Tourism
- Marketing in Tourism and Hospitality Industry
- Management of Tourism, Hotel and Restaurant Business
- Legal Regulation of Tourist Activity
- Accounting in Tourism and Hospitality Industry
- Insurance Business
- Technology for Sales of Tourism Product
- Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship
- Innovative Technologies in Tourism
- Statistics of International Tourism
- Psychology of Interpersonal Communication in Tourism
- Programme Tour Operating Activity
- Organization of Hotel and Restaurant Business: Equipment of Hotel and Restaurant Facilities
- Trade Fairs and Exhibitions
- Entrepreneurship (Peculiarities of Restaurant Business Organization)
- Psychology of Conducting Negotiations
- Organization of Mass Events and Leisure
- Organization of Inbound Tourism
- Fundamentals of Intercultural Communication in Tourism
- Green Tourism
- Psychology in Tourism Management
International Mobility and Double Degree Programmes
Student exchange programmes are conducted jointly with partner universities in Turkey, Poland, Spain and others. Summer internships are offered within the framework with our partner institutions BB STAFF İnsan Kaynakları Yönetim Danışmanlığı Özel İstihdam Bürosu hizmetleri Ltd. Şti (Turkey) and Prestige Deluxe Hotel Aquapark Club - All Inclusive (Bulgaria), as well as on student request.
Career Prospects
Graduates are in demand in all form of Travel and Tourism Business, dealing with inbound, outbound and domestic tourism.
In the future, increasing demand for skilled employees with this background will be generated by the following types of employers, like tour operators, travel agencies, tourist information centres, transportation companies, as well as a wide range of other service sector enterprises and local and state governmental bodies forming the policies in this sector of economy of Ukraine. Also, many our graduates have succeeded in starting their own businesses.
There is employment at tourist enterprises of any organizational and legal forms (commercial, non-commercial, national), in which graduates can work as managers of tourism; in national and municipal administration bodies; structures in which graduates are entrepreneurs who create and develop their own business.
Graduates can take such positions as: managers (executives) of travel agencies and tourism firm, managers (executives) for organizing activities of travel agencies and tourism firm, tourist product sales managers, guide (tour guide), university professors, administrators (central governing body managers in tourism at different levels)
Graduates have an opportunity to study at the second (Мaster’s) degree of high education. The possibility of obtaining re-training opportunities in post-graduate education and further training.
Each higher education recipient has the opportunity within national academic mobility to study different courses during the semester with subsequent recognition of the results and crediting credits in partner higher education establishments (within scientific educational consortium).
The principles of international academic mobility are determined by the legislation of Ukraine, other countries and interstate agreements.
Every higher education applicant has the opportunity to go through the procedure of recognition of credits / periods of study
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Structure of the Study Programme “Tourism” (Bachelor’s degree)
The Intended Learning Outcomes for the Study Programme “Tourism” (Bachelor’s degree)
The Catalogue of courses for the Study Programme “Tourism” (Bachelor’s degree)
