EHL Course Catalogue 2011-2012 - Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne

DIPLOMA WORK
Student business project
13 US quarter credits – 17 ECTS credits
The student, working in a small team, is given an outside consulting mandate. The team is faced with
actual professional challenges, forcing them to use and implement research methods, problemsolving
techniques, their own synthesis and analysis capacities, appropriate presentation tools, and
communication competencies.
Dissertation
13 US quarter credits – 17 ECTS credits
Working with a dissertation tutor, the student develops an independent, scientific research topic into
a 20–40-page document, which may be generalised to a hospitality-specific problem. A research
hypothesis is tested using appropriate statistical methods against the backdrop of a comprehensive
literature review. While not intended to have the depth of a post-graduate thesis, the dissertation
must stand on its own merit and must be defended orally by the student before a faculty jury.
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