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Hotel and Restaurant Management

Degree: Professional Bachelor

Type of education:

Number of semesters: 6

Professional qualification: Tourism

Professional field: TOURISM

First year: 2019

Faculty:College of Tourism
Duration:3 years
Language:Bulgarian
Mode of study:Full-time

Specific courses:

  • Introduction into Tourism;
  • Restaurant Management;
  • Restaurant Service Technology;
  • Hotel Management;
  • Hotel Service Technology;
  • Bar Service Technology;
  • Computer Systems in Restaurants and Hotels;
  • Traineeship in Hotel or Restaurant, etc.

Expected knowledge and skills after acquiring qualification:
Students acquire theoretical knowledge in tourism, hospitality management, tourism marketing and human resources management in tourism.
They gain specialized skills to lead teams, departments and sectors in hotel and tourism complexes, in companies, providing food and drinks, entertainment. They are able to develop, offer, advertise and sale tourist products on the market, to plan, organize and control technological processes in the hospitality, to use communications and information technics, technologies and information systems in hotels and restaurants, to communicate in several foreign languages for quality service to customers with different nationalities, to keep records, to perform accounting operations and other.

Employment opportunities upon graduation:

  • Managers in hotel, camping, holiday village or other places of stay;
  • Managers in restaurants or other types of places for dinner and leisure;
  • Front-office manager or senior administrator in hotel;
  • Saloon manager, chef and manager of the kitchen at a restaurant;
  • Executives and managers in the tourist service sector or in offices of hotel and restaurants chains and others.
  • Entrepreneurs in the hospitality industry.
Programme
First year
2019
Studied subjects Semester Credits Type of grading Student involvement
Total Self-study Classes
CORE
Introduction into Tourism 1 5 Exam 150 105 45
Information Technology 2 5 Exam 150 105 45
Electives (1)
  • Special-Interest Tourism
  • Business communications
3 5 Exam 150 105 45
Marketing in Tourism 4 5 Exam 150 105 45
Accounting in Tourism 5 5 Exam 150 105 45
Tourism Management 5 5 Exam 150 105 45
Tourism Industry Law 6 5 Exam 150 105 45
Human Resource Management in Tourism 6 5 Exam 150 105 45
Total for CORE 0 0
Special
Culinary theory and food preparation Food hygiene and nutrition 1 7 Exam 210 120 90
Restaurant management 1 3 Exam 90 60 30
Electives (1)
  • First Foreign Language - English
  • First Foreign Language - German
  • First Foreign Language - French
  • First Foreign Language - Russian
1 5 Ongoing assessment 150 90 60
Electives (1)
  • Second Foreign Language - English
  • Second Foreign Language -German
  • Second Foreign Language - French
  • Second Foreign Language - Russian
1 9 Ongoing assessment 270 180 90
Restaurant operations and service 2 7 Exam 210 135 75
Food studies 2 3 Exam 90 60 30
Physical Training 2 2 Ongoing assessment 60 0 60
Electives (1)
  • First Foreign Language - English
  • First Foreign Language - German
  • First Foreign Language - French
  • First Foreign Language - Russian
2 5 Ongoing assessment 150 105 45
Electives (1)
  • Second Foreign Language - English
  • Second Foreign Language -German
  • Second Foreign Language - French
  • Second Foreign Language - Russian
2 9 Exam 270 180 90
Hotel operations and service 3 5 Exam 150 120 30
Electives (1)
  • Social Psychology in Tourism
  • Guiding
  • Walking and Trekking
  • Folklore Ritual Practices In Tourism
  • Economics Of The Tourism Enterprise
3 4 Exam 120 90 30
Electives (1)
  • First Foreign Language - English
  • First Foreign Language - German
  • First Foreign Language - French
  • First Foreign Language - Russian
3 4 Ongoing assessment 120 75 45
Electives (1)
  • Second Foreign Language - English
  • Second Foreign Language -German
  • Second Foreign Language - French
  • Second Foreign Language - Russian
3 8 Ongoing assessment 240 150 90
Leisure and Entertainment in Tourism 4 3 Exam 90 45 45
Hotel management 4 3 Exam 90 45 45
Electives (1)
  • Intercultural Communication
  • The leisure Industry
  • Marketing communications in tourism
  • Customs, traditions and culinary art
  • The Sommelier Art
4 4 Exam 120 90 30
Electives (1)
  • First Foreign Language - English
  • First Foreign Language - German
  • First Foreign Language - French
  • First Foreign Language - Russian
4 4 Ongoing assessment 120 75 45
Electives (1)
  • Second Foreign Language - English
  • Second Foreign Language -German
  • Second Foreign Language - French
  • Second Foreign Language - Russian
4 8 Ongoing assessment 240 150 90
Bar operations and service 5 4 Exam 120 75 45
Electives (1)
  • First Foreign Language - English
  • First Foreign Language - German
  • First Foreign Language - French
  • First Foreign Language - Russian
5 4 Ongoing assessment 120 75 45
Electives (1)
  • Second Foreign Language - English
  • Second Foreign Language -German
  • Second Foreign Language - French
  • Second Foreign Language - Russian
5 4 Ongoing assessment 120 60 60
Electives (1)
  • First Foreign Language - English
  • First Foreign Language - German
  • First Foreign Language - French
  • First Foreign Language - Russian
6 3 Ongoing assessment 90 60 30
Electives (1)
  • Second Foreign Language - English
  • Second Foreign Language -German
  • Second Foreign Language - French
  • Second Foreign Language - Russian
6 3 Ongoing assessment 90 30 60
Total for Special 0 0
Practical
Supervised on-the-job training /restaurant/ 1 3 Ongoing assessment 90 60 30
Supervised on-the-job training /restaurant/ 2 3 Ongoing assessment 90 60 30
Summer Work Experience 2 3 Ongoing assessment 0 0 0
Supervised on-the-job training /restaurant/ 3 3 Ongoing assessment 75 60 15
Supervised on-the-job training /hotel/ 4 3 Ongoing assessment 90 60 30
Summer Work Experience 4 2 Ongoing assessment 0 0 0
Computer Systems for the Hotel and Restaurant 5 2 Exam 60 45 15
Supervised on-the-job training /bar/ 6 3 Ongoing assessment 90 60 30
Customer Care 6 2 Exam 60 45 15
Total for Practical 0 0
Graduare
Written Exam in the First Foreign Language 6 2 Exam 0 0 0
Written Exam in the Second Foreign Language 6 2 Exam 0 0 0
Interdisciplinary Theoretical Exam 6 3 Exam 0 0 0
Interdisciplinary Practical Exam 6 3 Exam 0 0 0
Total for Graduare 0 0
Total for the entire period of study 185 5085 3300 1785
1 The course is available only to foreigners
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