Hospitality Management First Year Seminar

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The purpose of the First-Year Seminar is to introduce new students to an open and purposeful learning community, and to help them develop the habits and pleasures of good scholarship. Working with faculty members, students will learn that expectations of personal integrity, level of effort, and civility at Penn State are much higher than in high school, but that there are many people, vehicles, and support to help them meet those expectations. They will learn to take charge of their own education, to plan for internships, international experiences, research, and, in general, to become active learners. This First-Year Seminar specific to Hospitality Management (HM) offers students an up-close perspective of the School of Hospitality Management (SHM) experience directly from interactions with SHM faculty. Each class period a different HM faculty member will meet with first-year students to share their personal and professional motivations for being engaged in the hospitality industry. Unique to this class will be the opportunity for students to learn how their academic program prepares them for the breadth of opportunities the hospitality profession has to offer and the positive impact both hospitality research and practice have on our communities.