Course Competencies

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    Meeting and Event Management Associate Degree

    Course Competencies

     
    1)      Fundamentals of Meeting Management (3 credits)
    •        Identify meeting resources
    •        Explore meeting industry careers
    •        Assemble a meeting request for proposal
    •        Determine important criteria in site selection
     
    2)      Registration, and Housing Logistics (2 credits)
    •        Use registration software applications
    •        Analyze housing trends
    •        Generate housing and registration reports
     
    3)      Special Event Management (3 credits)
    •        Demonstrate practices used to market, plan and implement special events.
    •        Identify common strategies in coordinating special events effectively
     
    4)      Meeting Coordination (3 credits)
    •        Critique meeting room seating styles and their affects on the meeting
    •        Select appropriate options to save money on food and beverage functions
    •        Outline guidelines for accommodating people with disabilities at a meeting
    •        Analyze the different types of audiovisual equipment and their uses
     
    5)      Risk Management, Negotiations and Legal Issues (3 credits)
    •        Discover critical negotiation techniques
    •        Analyze facility contracts
    •        Examine crisis management strategies
     
    6)      Meeting Industry Budget and Financial Management (2 credits)
    •        Develop a foundation for strategic financial management
    •        Construct a meeting budget
     
    7)      Exposition Management (2 credits)
    •        Determine critical elements in coordinating exhibits
    •        Develop exhibitor prospectus and contract
     
    8)      Partnership Development (2 credits)
    •        Analyze a meeting to identify sponsorship and fundraising opportunities
    •        Identify methods to increase market effectiveness, and increase meeting profitability
     
    9)      Program Design and Development (3 credits)
    •        Determine stakeholder objectives and learner outcomes
    •        Apply adult learning strategies to program development
           Construct learner objectives

     

    Last Modified: March 3, 2010