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EHL Course Catalogue 2011-2012 - Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne

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5251 – Language II<br />

30 hours of contact – 2.0 US semester credits – 2.2 ECTS semester credits<br />

� Summary<br />

This unit enables stu<strong>de</strong>nts to communicate effectively in a broad range of hospitality situations<br />

including being a member of and managing a team. They will learn to write simple external<br />

documents and improve their „soft‟ skills with English as the common language of communication.<br />

� Objective<br />

Upon successful completion of this unit, stu<strong>de</strong>nts should have acquired more advanced business<br />

vocabulary and sentence structure nee<strong>de</strong>d to communicate effectively with external clients and work<br />

in an English-speaking team in the hospitality industry.<br />

MODULE : BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY<br />

5280 – Marketing II<br />

38 hours of contact – 2.5 US semester credits – 2.8 ECTS semester credits<br />

� Summary<br />

This unit enables stu<strong>de</strong>nts to <strong>de</strong>epen their knowledge of marketing, to <strong>de</strong>velop a customer<br />

satisfaction-oriented strategy and to un<strong>de</strong>rstand how the marketing mix can be adapted to the<br />

hospitality industry. Stu<strong>de</strong>nts will also <strong>de</strong>velop the competencies nee<strong>de</strong>d to respond to customers‟<br />

expectations with a product adapted to an ever-changing environment, to monitor the feasibility of a<br />

project, and to plan the actions necessary for its implementation.<br />

� Objective<br />

Upon successful completion of this unit, stu<strong>de</strong>nts will be able to:<br />

- <strong>de</strong>fine the concept of marketing mix and its components and classify them according to<br />

their significance in various hospitality contexts,<br />

- <strong>de</strong>velop the key components of the marketing mix (specificity of the product, pricing<br />

policy, distribution channel, mix of communications) for each segment and evaluate their<br />

coherence with overall objectives and marketing strategies,<br />

- <strong>de</strong>velop sales forecasts according to a specific policy and establish an operating budget,<br />

- set up monitoring processes for each <strong>de</strong>cision and action step of a marketing plan.<br />

5270 – General Accounting & Financial Management II<br />

42 hours of contact – 2.8 US semester credits – 3.1 ECTS semester credits<br />

� Summary<br />

This unit will allow stu<strong>de</strong>nts to prepare a complete short- and long-term financial plan and validate<br />

an investment <strong>de</strong>cision through its financial viability. Stu<strong>de</strong>nts will take all operational and strategic<br />

<strong>de</strong>cisions required for running the business into consi<strong>de</strong>ration and will be able to <strong>de</strong>termine their<br />

financial impact.

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