Administrative Management Technology: Meeting/Event Planner Option

  What is Administrative Management Technology: Meeting/Event Planner Option ?

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.

  Success Factors

Students who are successful in this area are those who have excellent organization and time-management skills, business 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 Option

This career-oriented certificate offers the necessary course work to acquire the 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 concept development, budgetary obligations and event design and execution.

  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.

 

Course Name	Course Number	Credits
Customer Service		3
Microcomputer Office Accounting I, II		6
Web Page Coding		3
Office Presentation Graphics		3
Microcomputer Office Databases		9
Meeting/Event Planning I, II, III		3
Web Page Office Graphics		3
Principles of Marketing		3
Microcomputer Office Spreadsheets		3
Business Communications		3
Web Page Editor Software		3
Task Management		3
Desktop Publishing I		3
Management of Office Systems		3
Total		51

 

  Admission Requirements

You may enroll in a professional certificate program at Raymond Walters College if you have received a bachelor's degree from an accredited college. The RWC admissions office provides an application for admission and all the information you'll need to enroll in the college. Individuals pursuing a professional certificate must provide a transcript from the institution where they received a bachelor's degree.

Prerequisites include:

• Baccalaureate degree
• Keyboarding speed of 35 wpm
• Microcomputer office applications or equivalent experience
• The grade of C or above is required in all office information technology courses.

  Accreditation

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