Curriculum
The Bachelor of Science degree curriculum is designed by the Hotel School faculty to provide students with a world-class, Ivy League business management degree with a hospitality industry focus.
The core —courses in all business and management functions—forms the basis of the curriculum, ensuring that Hotel School students graduate with the requisite body of knowledge needed to perform at a high level in the industry. Hotel School electives allow students to focus on more specific areas of the hospitality field, and the option of electing a concentration gives students the ability to specialize in a particular segment of the industry.
Students also take distributive electives—courses in the humanities and social and physical sciences—in order to become acquainted with a broad range of subject matter and points of view among different disciplines. Free electives offer students the opportunity to explore their own interests further.
Freshman and transfer students will take a First-Year Writing Seminar, one of over 100 courses taught in 30 different disciplines at the university. The skills learned in these small writing classes will help students in all their work at Cornell.