Events Management

Description

This degree offers the chance to combine hands-on experience in planning, organising and delivering a wide range of special events with essential management skills. The development of these management skills, including project management, working with others and communication skills, is highly regarded by employers.

This event management degree gives you hands-on experience of events planning, organisation and delivery – perfect preparation for employment in the vibrant and expanding events industry.

Key features include:

• Planning, organising and delivering live special events
• Understanding, applying and analysing event management skills
• Study of the changing nature of events management
• Guest lectures from special events managers
• Visits to events such as Confex in London and Winchester Christmas Market
• Close links with the Southampton Boat Show, the Glastonbury and Isle of Wight Festivals, and international events like the London 2012 Olympics
• Opportunities at local venues including the Southampton Guildhall, Harbour Lights PIcturehouse, De Vere Hotel and the Mayflower Theatre
• Structured feedback process and ongoing support from tutors
• Focus on student feedback to help enhance the learning experience
• A minimum of six weeks’ work experience. Recent examples have involved: Isle of Wight, Glastonbury and Glade festivals, Henley Royal Regatta, Badminton Horse Trials, Southampton Passion play, Tower of London, Hamleys toy shop, AGEON tennis (at Queen’s Club), Deutsche Bank corporate hospitality, Christie’s polo and projects for leading charities.

Industrial focus

Employability is at the heart of the course, and 86% of recent students are in employment or further study six months after graduation.

Tutors are experienced in managing event venues and special events. Many remain actively engaged in research and development in the field, ensuring that the course units are always up-to-date. The University is also a founding member of the Association of Events Management Educators.

Support is offered to help students write CVs, develop interview skills and search for jobs. The course develops cognitive, transferable and practical skills, helping students to become independent learners and reflective practitioners.

Career opportunities

Graduates combine knowledge of the management and marketing of special events with the skills to plan, organise, deliver and promote them. In particular, they gain understanding and experience of planning and managing live special events, which could include fundraising, music, sports, meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibition events.

Career paths include:

• special events management
• sales and marketing management
• charitable fundraising
• meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions management.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 10610 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

Year 1

Six core units:

• Academic and Employability Skills
• Event and Activity Safety Operations
• Financial Planning and Reporting
• Introduction to Events Management
• Introduction to Organisational Behaviour in Leisure Services
• Leisure Marketing.

Year 2

Four core units and one option:

• Applied Events Management
• Managing Service Operations
• Research Methods for the Leisure Services Industry
• Work-Based Professional Studies.

Options:

• Applied Events Staging
• Customer Service, Marketing and Sales
• Developing the Entrepreneurial Venture
• Event Sponsorship
• Human Resource Management for Events
• Marketing Communications
• Curriculum Plus.

Year 3

Five core units and two options:

• Contemporary Issues in Events Management
• Consultancy Project
• Dissertation for the Leisure Services Industry
• Literature-Based Research
• Strategy for Leisure

Options:

• Critical Management Thinking
• Developing Creativity for Business
• Electronic Marketing
• Employee Relations
• Greening Events
• Hospitality Management
• Integrated Marketing Communications and Strategy
• International Marketing
• Small Business Enterprises
• Sport Tourism
• Curriculum Plus

Why choose Solent?

• Students apply events management theory to real live special events in the local community.
• The events management tutors are themselves practitioners and they have managed live events.
• The live events raise thousands of pounds for Barnardo’s every year.
• The Curriculum Plus option units allow for accreditation of learning at voluntary or paid events.

Assessment

Case studies, essays, examinations, posters, presentations, reports, work placement, practical group work on live events and a 12,000-word dissertation.

Projects/work experience

During the first year students will develop management skills that prepare them for a minimum six-week work placement, which takes place between Year 1 and Year 2. The Careers Employability and Enterprise Service (CEES) supports students with planning and organising their own placements through a series of group and one-to-one sessions. CEES offers advice on how to find a placement, create a successful CV or application form and how to stand out at interview.

Key career skills

Self-management, project management, teamworking, business and customer awareness, problem solving, business communications, numeracy and IT.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6 TOEFL paper-based test score : 550

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Requirements

240 points of which 120 are from one 12-unit or two 6-unit awards.

BTEC National Diploma Merit Profile.

International students

Applications are welcomed from students who have been educated outside the UK system, and a number of overseas qualifications are recognised as equivalent to those listed. Applicants should give full details of their qualifications, including subjects, grades, date and the name and address of the school, college, university or awarding authority.

Applicants who do not have English as their first language will be required to demonstrate an approved level of proficiency in the use of the English language. The agreed threshold attainments for undergraduate courses are:

• GCSE or GCE ‘O’ Level (Grade C);
• IELTS 6.0 or a TOEFL score of 550 or more; or
• City and Guilds ESOL (written assessment) pass in Higher Intermediate examination, plus a comparable pass in City and Guilds SESL (speaking assessment) examination.
• Where students enter direct to a course at the University, in the final year, without any prior experience of the UK Higher Education System will require IELTS 6.5.

Qualifications are checked before enrolment and international students must bring their original certificates when coming to study at the University.

The University also offers an International Foundation Programme for international students who wish to improve their level of English before starting a degree course.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Southampton Solent University.