Student Learning Objectives
Student Learning Objectives
RTM Student Learning Objectives
Graduates of our four-year baccalaureate programs in Merchandising, Apparel, and Textiles and Hospitality Management and Tourism should demonstrate ability in the following areas:
- INDUSTRY OPERATIONS: Students will analyze organizational activities and solve problems using theory and published literature in the areas of organizational management, marketing, social media, staffing, and controlling.
- GLOBALIZATION OF RETAILING AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT: Students augment their knowledge of industry operations through a global approach that emphasizes cultural sensitivity and equips them for employment in international environments.
- DIVERSITY AND ADVOCACY: Students will examine perspectives outside their own lived experiences and explain the value that diversity brings to communities and organizations. Students will appreciate and advocate for a variety of audiences throughout their professional careers.
- ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY: Students illustrate social responsibility in the form of ethical leadership and professional practices, while being sensitive to environmental impacts and the global effects of individual, organizational, and corporate decision making.
- SOFT SKILLS AND CAREER READINESS: Students will demonstrate soft skills and career readiness skills through professional relationships with faculty, peers, and industry practitioners (job seeking skills, digital citizenship, technology use in the industry and society). Soft skills include: communication, teamwork, professionalism, leadership, self-management, experience, decision making/ problem solving.
- CRITICAL THINKING: Students critically evaluate and compare diverse resources to recommend strategies and tools to make decisions and solve real-world problems.
- CREATIVE THINKING: Students explore divergent solutions to problems and generate ideas leading to innovations that can provide solutions to the problem explored.
