Conference paper
Delivering employable event studies graduates: student perspectives on the benefits of experiential learning
Proceedings of the Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education Conference, pp.841-844
CAUTHE Conference: Time For Big Ideas? Re-thinking The Field For Tomorrow, 2017 (Dunedin, New Zealand, 07-Feb-2017–10-Feb-2017)
Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education
2017
Abstract
The past decade has seen increasing competition between graduates for jobs, and universities are now frequently scrutinised and evaluated on their graduate employment success rates. This study reports on student perceptions of a revised event management course designed to enhance graduate employability through the use of experiential learning, based on the new Threshold Learning Outcomes for events higher education in Australia. Early thematic analysis of student reflections (the final assessment piece in the course) finds that students perceive that they have attained a number of skills from the experiential learning activities, and most are able to articulate these in relation to future career paths.
Details
- Title
- Delivering employable event studies graduates: student perspectives on the benefits of experiential learning
- Authors
- Trudie Walters (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Contributors
- Craig Lee (Editor)Sebastian Filep (Editor)Julia N Albrecht (Editor)Willem J L Coetzee (Editor)
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education Conference, pp.841-844
- Conference details
- CAUTHE Conference: Time For Big Ideas? Re-thinking The Field For Tomorrow, 2017 (Dunedin, New Zealand, 07-Feb-2017–10-Feb-2017)
- Publisher
- Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education
- Date published
- 2017
- ISBN
- 9780473388195
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450869102621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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