Administrative Management Technology: Meeting/Event Planner

  What is Administrative Management Technology: Meeting/Event Planner?

The meeting/event planner program is designed to prepare students to plan, organize and manage all aspects of corporate and organizational meetings and events. Required courses are designed to provide students with essential skills in computer applications, management and communications. Graduates receive an associate of applied business degree.

This program includes an optional, paid internship component to give students on-the-job training related to course work. Students in the program will attend classes on a full-time basis and work in a meeting/events-planning related position for 20 hours a week for one year. Through this program students learn the fundamentals in class, while gaining necessary real-world work experience.

  Success Factors

Students who are successful in this area are those who have excellent organization and time management skills, business computer software applications knowledge, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

  Career Possibilities

Qualified meeting/event planners are employed by corporations, hospitals, hotels, nonprofit organizations, governmental agencies and various industries.

  Majoring in Administrative Management Technology: Meeting/Event Planner

This career-oriented, associate of applied business degree program offers the necessary course work for knowledge and skills required for meeting and event planning. The program prepares students for all aspects of event planning, from weddings to corporate events, and includes course work covering concept development, budgetary obligations, and event design and execution.

An internship program, designed to provide an opportunity for on-the-job training, is available as an elective for full-time, second-year students.

All administrative information management programs can be completed entirely through evening study. Office information technology (OIT) courses must be repeated if the student receives a grade of "C-" or lower.

  Curriculum

This curriculum information is intended as a general information guide for students considering enrollment in this program. These online tools are designed to assist you, but are not a substitute for planning with an academic or faculty advisor.

If you are currently confirmed or enrolled, you can check your degree requirements online. If you are considering transferring to this major from another school use the Course Applicability System (CAS) to see how credits you have earned will apply to this major at UC. For course descriptions by college, click here.

Freshman Year

Course Name	Course Number	Credits
English Composition I, II	28ENGL101,102	6
Social Sciences, Historical Perspectives or Humanities	28SOSC, 28HIST, 28PSYCH, 28SOC	3
Microcomputer Office Accounting I, II	28OATN121, 122	6
Microcomputer Office Applications	28OATN179	3
Windows	28OATN225	3
Business English	28ENGL178	3
Customer Service	28OATN161	3
Fundamentals of Word Processing	28OATN211	3
Business Math	28OATN175	3
Microcomputer Office Databases	28OATN180	3
Meeting/Event Planning I, II	28OATN 241,242	6
Office Presentation Graphics	28OATN288	3
Microcomputer Office Spreadsheets	28OATN181	3
Business Communications	28OATN273	3
Task Management	28OATN293	3
Total		54

 Summer

Course Name	Course Number	Credits
Seminar I for Internship Program	28OATN235	3
Total		3

 Sophomore Year

Course Name	Course Number	Credits
Social Sciences, Historical Perspectives or Humanities	28SOSC, 28HIST, 28PSYCH, 28SOC	9
Intermediate Composition	28ENGL289	3
Electives or Seminar II, III	28OATN236, 237	6
OIT Portfolio* or Seminar IV	28OATN238, 28OATN280	3
Web Page Coding	28OATN295	3
Meeting/Event Planning	28OATN242	3
Desktop Publishing I	28OATN296	3
Effective Public Speaking	28COMM171	3
Business Law I	28BLAW231	3
Web Page Graphics	28OATN260	3
Web Page Editor Software	28OATN261	3
Persuasive Speaking	28COMM202	3
Principle of Marketing	28MKTG351	3
Fund. of Office Networks	28OATN198	3
Total		51(54)

*Students need to keep all work completed in OIT classes.

Note: Office information technology courses must be repeated if the student receives a grade of "C-" or lower.

  Admission Requirements

Open Admission

Program Requirements:

Keyboarding speed 35 wpm

Microcomputer Office applications or equivalent experience

RWC placement test

  Accreditation

The University of Cincinnati is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.