Hospitality

Overview

Course Details

Learn the fundamentals of restaurant operations with the Hospitality Associate Degree (AD) at the American Public University.

Accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs, APU’s online associate degree in hospitality increases your understanding of food purchasing and storage, food service sanitation and safety, quantity food preparation, legal requirements, and marketing.

Your AA in Hospitality course activities include analyzing the operation of a hospitality enterprise and how proper or improper management impacts the business. The capstone course involves using computer simulations to make decisions based on the operational concepts you learned. You will test how well your decisions would play out in the real world.

What You Will Do

• Show your ability to ensure safe food production from purchase to service
• Demonstrate your understanding of the responsibilities of a food service manager
• Implement ways to effectively manage and improve restaurant performance, based on your learning of operations
• Consider how proper or improper management impacts a hospitality operation from a legal standpoint
• Describe career opportunities and future growth forecasts for different segments of the hospitality industry

Accreditation

• This program has been designed in consultation with industry business leaders and is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).