Overview and Award Outcomes
Overview
Event and Meeting Management will prepare you for employment in entry-level positions in event management, meeting planning, convention sales, and hotel and resort companies. You’ll learn what is required to plan and manage events from concept to completion including contracts, venue, presentations, menu, marketing, and industry business practices. Effective communication skills, strong human relations abilities, and problem-solving skills will contribute to your success in the program and on the job.
Award Outcomes
Solve business problems using critical thinking and decision making techniques.
Apply marketing concepts and strategies.
Demonstrate the steps of the sales process.
Recognize different types of supplier contracts and legal issues for events.
Demonstrate the ability to plan a variety of menus.
Demonstrate the ability to set up and run the needs of an event speaker.
Produce a detailed event using audio/visual and lighting elements.
Integrate the use of industry standard technology and design.
Career Opportunities
Event planning is a growing profession. Many associations and corporations hire people whose main job responsibilities are to arrange, plan and conduct events and meetings in a wide range of venues and locations. There is a high demand for skilled, educated, customer service-oriented employees to enter the events industry.
Semester Sequence
Offered at Brooklyn Park and Eden Prairie
First Semester
| ACCT1000 | Introduction to Accounting | 3 |
| BUSN1000 | Introduction to Business | 3 |
| CULA1106 | Culinary Culture and Industry | 2 |
| COMM2050 | Interpersonal Communication - Replaced by: COMM1250 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
| or | |
| COMM2060 | Small Group Communication - Replaced by: COMM1260 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
| ENGL2121 | Writing and Research - Replaced by: ENGL1100 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 4 |
| or | |
| ENGL2125 | Technical Writing - Replaced by: ENGL1070 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
Second Semester
| BUSN1100 | Supervision | 3 |
| or | |
| BUSN2055 | Principles of Management | 4 |
| BUSN2005 | Marketing Concepts and Strategies | 4 |
| BUSN2040 | Introduction to Event Planning | 3 |
| PHIL2100 | Critical Thinking for College Success - Replaced by: PHIL1100 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
| Choose 3 credits from MnTC Goal Area 3, 4, or 5 | 3 |
Fourth Semester
| ACCT1410 | Business Finance | 3 |
| BUSN2050 | Event Site Sourcing and Contracts | 3 |
| CCIS2055 | Project Management | 3 |
| CULA1700 | Human Relations Management | 2 |
| CULA2050 | Fundamentals of Wine - "On Hold" - August 2020 | 2 |
| COMM2130 | Public Speaking - Replaced by: COMM1280 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
MnTC Goal Area 3, 4, or 5
Hennepin Technical College’s 2000-level general education courses meet the guidelines of the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC).
A complete list of MnTC courses and Goal Areas that can be used to meet General Education requirements can be found at www.hennepintech.edu. The same course cannot satisfy more than one MnTC Goal Area requirement.
| MnTC Goal Area 3 | |
| BIOL2001 | Biology in Society - Replaced by: BIOL1000 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 4 |
| BIOL2005 | General Biology I | 4 |
| BIOL2045 | Human Biology - Replaced by: BIOL1400 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 4 |
| BIOL2105 | General Biology II - "On Hold" - May 2021 | 4 |
| BIOL2125 | Anatomy and Physiology I | 4 |
| BIOL2215 | Human Physiology - Deleted April 2021 | 4 |
| BIOL2225 | Anatomy and Physiology II | 4 |
| BIOL2235 | Microbiology | 4 |
| CHEM2000 | Introduction to Chemistry - Replaced by: CHEM1000 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 4 |
| CHEM2200 | Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry - Replaced by CHEM2201 - FY21 | 5 |
| PHYS2001 | Introductory Physics - Replaced by: PHYS1005 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
| PHYS2005 | College Physics I | 4 |
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| MnTC Goal Area 4 | |
| MATH2050 | Applications of Quantitative Reasoning - Replaced by: MATH1150 - new gen ed # - June 2022 | 3 |
| MATH2150 | Introduction to Statistics - Replaced by: MATH1250 - new gen ed # - June 2022 | 3 |
| MATH2200 | College Algebra - Replaced by: MATH1400 - new gen ed # - June 2022 | 4 |
| MATH2250 | Precalculus with Trigonometry | 5 |
| MATH2300 | Calculus I | 5 |
| PHIL2000 | Introduction to Logic - Replaced by: PHIL1000 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
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| MnTC Goal Area 5 | |
| ECON2100 | Consumer Economics - (Delete - May 2021) | 3 |
| ECON2200 | Principles of Microeconomics - Replaced by: ECON1200 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
| ECON2300 | Principles of Macroeconomics - Replaced by: ECON1300 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
| PSYC2300 | General Psychology - Replaced by: PSYC1000 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
| PSYC2310 | Psychology Throughout the Lifespan - Replaced by: PSYC1200 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
| PSYC2320 | Psychology of Living in the 21st Century - Deleted - April 2021 | 3 |
| PSYC2330 | Abnormal Psychology - Replaced by: PSYC1300 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
| SOCI2000 | Marriage and Family - Replaced by: SOCI1200 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
| SOCI2100 | Introduction to Sociology - Replaced by: SOCI1100 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
| SOCI2130 | Food and Society - Replaced by: SOCI1600 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
| SOCI2200 | Race in America - Replaced by: SOCI1400 - new gen ed # - Summer 2022 | 3 |
Choose a Total of: 3 Credits
Graduation (60 Credits)
This semester sequence is a tool meant for students to discuss their schedule each semester with their faculty advisor. Some course may be offered once per year and only at one campus.
Semester listings reflect the recommended sequence. Due to circumstances beyond our control, the information herein is subject to change without notice.
6/24/2019 : BP 2518 / EP 2519