Over recent years training availability in the areas of Tourism, Hospitality and Catering has grown exponentially in the secondary and tertiary education levels and in the business sector. At the same time, there is a constant intervention concerning lifelong learning in the different Tourism sectors (accommodation, travel agencies, catering, tourist entertainment companies, etc.), and such training is provided by middle and upper managers, who should be pedagogically prepared for it.
However, there are no programmes that will prepare these agents with the proper teaching and training qualifications for the sector of the Tourism, Hospitality and Catering.
Thus, the specialised Postgraduate programme in Education for Tourism, Hospitality and Catering is aimed at vocational trainers and teachers of Tourism, Hospitality and Catering subjects. It will provide them with new tools and methodologies so as to improve their proposed pedagogical activities.
The programme is taught in cooperation with ESE/ IPP (School of Education) and welcomes several specialists, who present case studies so as to balance theory and practice.
| 1º Ano | ||
|---|---|---|
| Unidade curricular | Período | ECTS |
| Pedagogical Resources for Tourism, Hospitality and Catering | Summer Semester | |
| Training Strategies and Methods for Tourism, Hospitality and Catering | Summer Semester | |
| Seminars II | Summer Semester | |
| Socio-pedagogical Communication and Action | Summer Semester | |
| Programmes and Projects in Tourism, Hospitality and Catering | Summer Semester | |
| Multimedia Technologies for Education in Tourism, Hospitality and Catering | Winter Semester | |
| Seminars I | Winter Semester | |
| Diverse Education and Customised Vocational Training | Winter Semester | |
| Education Policies for Tourism, Hospitality and Catering | Winter Semester | |
| Tourism, Hospitality and Catering | Winter Semester | |
- The programme aims at developing skills in future professionals working in:
- education and training in Tourism, Hospitality and Catering in the primary, secondary, vocational and tertiary education levels;
- vocational training companies;
- formal and non-formal educational projects;
- the support of projects towards pedagogical innovation and research;
- the identification, design and assessment of Tourism, Hospitality and Catering educational resources;
- distance education for mobile populations.
The applicants should have one of the following:
A bachelor's degree or its legal equivalent;
A foreign higher education degree, awarded upon completion of a 1st study cycle organized according to the Bologna model by a State who has adhered to this Process;
A foreign higher education degree, which by decision of the Technical-Scientific Council is recognised as satisfying the objectives of a bachelor's degree;
An academic, scientific and/or professional curriculum which the Technical-Scientific Council recognises as proof of the candidate¿s preparedness for the study cycle.
