This course is a structured and supervised, work experience that will give students the reality of learning. This course will allow students to identify and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses in future employment aspirations. An internship experience will provide students with an opportunity to explore career interests while applying knowledge and skills learned in the classroom in a work setting. The experience also helps students gain a clear sense of what they still need to learn and provides an opportunity to build professional networks.

Yucatec or Yucatan Maya (known to its own speaker’s simple as Maya) is a Mayan language of the Yucatan Peninsula and Northern Belize. 800,000 Mayan people speak dialects of this language fluently today.

Sustainable tourism is attracting enormous attention today throughout the world and is clearly a complex and diverse issue which as the world develops will become an increasingly significant part of a growing tourism industry. Thus, this course introduces students to the tourism industry with an insight into sustainable tourism.  It also provides an up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of the practice and management of the subject.  It will focus on a range of definitions of sustainable tourism from the different sectors of tourism and different parts of the world. Key issues and current debates are also discussed and a range of examples of sustainable tourism management practice are given. The course is designed to be interactive, with group and individual exercises and discussion points to further understanding of the subject.  The aim of this course is to focus on the practical side and to explore the ways in which tourism could be managed in ways that would make it more sustainable.

Functional Spanish for Tourism Majors or SP 139 is a 3 credit course that will enable the student to develop linguistic and cultural proficiency relevant to the communication needs of those in the thriving field of tourism. Due to the interactive nature of the course, students will learn to exhibit understanding while analyzing and applying the correct use of Spanish in functional communication.

This course provides an in-depth exploration of sanitation, health and safety principles applicable in various settings such as workplaces, food service industries and public tourism environments. Students will learn about the standards and best practices necessary to maintain clean, safe and healthy conditions. Students will learn the essentials of food safety, food microbiology, sanitary design principles for facilities and equipment, worker hygiene practices, correct procedures for cleaning and sanitizing, food defense and plant security.

This course provides the students with practical skills and knowledge for effective management of food service operations. It also provides students with a sound basic knowledge of food and beverage preparation and service and the ability to competently perform all practical techniques in a realistic setting. It gives the student the opportunity to put into practice certain elements and procedures of sanitation and safety.