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Tourism, Conventions, and Event Management
  • TESM-C 301 Career and Leadership Principles (3 cr.) Focuses on the necessary skills and tools for success in an internship setting as well as principles of career preparation including resumes and interviewing. Examines and practices principles of leadership, teamwork, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and ethical behavior in the context of the workplace, career development, and citizenship.
  • TESM-C 387 TESM Co-Operative Experience (1-3 cr.) Provides an immersive, hands-on learning opportunity with employers in the tourism, event, hospitality, and sport industries in a structured co-op experience. This course may be taken more than once.
  • TESM-C 401 TESM Industry Internship (3-6 cr.) P: TESM-C 301. Required: Junior or Senior standing. Provides an immersive, hands-on, learning experience in the tourism industry.  This independent study course offers opportunities to prepare students for a career in the industry.
  • TESM-E 204 Event Strategy and Management (3 cr.) Previously TESM-E 104. This course explores all elements of the business meeting and event planning process from strategy and devlopment to planing and organization to onsite management and evaluation. Students will get the opportunity to practice principles within real event scenarios to understand how theory connects with realistic application.
  • TESM-E 210 Celebrations, Weddings, and Ceremonies (3 cr.) Focus on events that are celebrations, weddings, or ceremonies. Students will learn the unique guidelines, timing, structure, communication, and cultural understanding that make these events unique. Also, students will explore the diverse organizations event professionals in this sector work for from event entrepreneurs to large organizations with annual formal ceremonies.
  • TESM-E 219 Sport Event Production (3 cr.) Surveys sport event planning on the amateur and professional levels. Discussions and studies entail site selection, logistics, personnel, marketing, economics, and legalities of hosting an event.
  • TESM-E 304 Event Design and Décor (3 cr.) P: TESM-E 204. Students will learn the theory and elements of design thinking, human-centered design, and experience design with an application to the creation of events. Students will use a methodology and facilitated process to create event plans focused on the attendee psychological, physical, and physiological experiences that maximize value.
  • TESM-E 377 Exhibit Marketing (3 cr.) Leads students through every phase of exhibit marketing, from the initial planning stage to implementation and post-show follow-up.
  • TESM-E 404 Event Production (3 cr.) P: TESM-E 304. Focuses on the creation, management, and execution of events. Students will design an event concept and produce the event.
  • TESM-E 471 International Meeting Planning (3 cr.) Explores the organization and production of international corporate business meetings, seminars, incentive trips, and customer events using innovative and cost-effective programs that address changing business needs.
  • TESM-E 477 Non Profit Meeting Management (3 cr.) Focuses on basic aspects and skills involved in planning and managing non-profit meetings and conventions.  Examines sequences of events from the conceptual state of the first meeting plan through completion of the event.
  • TESM-C 100 Introduction to Tourism, Event & Sport Management (3 cr.) Introduces the tourism, events, hospitality, and sport management industry. Emphasis is placed on exploring such as service, food and beverage operations, lodging, hospitality, events, tourism and attractions, and sport management and sport entertainment centers. Students are exposed to different career opportunities available within the diverse scope of the industry.
  • TESM-G 110 TESM Learning Community (3 cr.) Provides students with a comprehensive introduction to IU Indianapolis. Topics will focus on skills essential for success, including resources of the university, school, and department, academic planning, discipline-based learning, skill-based learning, service learning, and critical reflection.
  • TESM-G 299 Special Topics in Tourism (3 cr.) Investigates tourism trends and themes.  Students will be immersed in topics via experiential learning, case study analysis, independent study, and/or service learning.
  • TESM-G 302 Independent Study in Tourism (3 cr.) Industry of research project to be arranged between a student and faculty member geared to individual needs, interests, aptitudes, and desired outcomes. Plans and project outcomes must be approved by an appropriate faculty.
  • TESM-G 309 Cruise Line Management (3 cr.) Introduces the cruise line industry and investigates the skills needed to begin a productive career in the specialized travel segment.
  • TESM-G 315 Economics of Tourism and Events (3 cr.) Analyzes macro and microeconomic concepts as they apply to the production, distribution, and consumption of tourism-related goods and services. Topics include tourism demand, competition among tourism suppliers, and benefits and costs of tourism development.
  • TESM-C 410 Research and Data Literacy in Tourism, Events, and Sport Management (3 cr.) P: TESM-C 100. Previously TESM-G 410. Examine the process of research, including the identification of research problems, literature review, data collection, analysis techniques and interpretation; gain a good understanding of data literacy and become more data literate, with the ability to read and speak the "language of data", analyze and communicate with data.
  • TESM-G 412 Tourism Management Principles (3 cr.) Builds upon the foundation of management through analysis and application in the tourism industry. Topics include strategic planning, risk management, international business, and entrepreneurship. Students will examine principles of non-profit management, social responsibility, and effective management of the workforce.
  • TESM-T 472 Global Tourism Seminar (3 cr.) Provides an international perspective on the key issues facing tourism in the global environment.  Includes critical examination of the meaning and scope of tourism; niche tourism markets; environmental, socio-cultural and economic impacts of tourism; political role in tourism; tourism growth management; and tourism trends.
  • TCEM-G 499 Event Tourism Analysis (3 cr.) Develops skills in analyzing organizational challenges, formulating and selecting alternatives, and identifying issues inherent in strategy implementation within the event tourism industry.
  • TESM-H 281 Lodging Management (3 cr.) Previously TESM-H 105. This course explores the operations and management of lodging Topics include the type of property, revenue management, and guest services focused on meeting guests' needs and maximizing occupancy. Discussion includes special forms of lodging, such as bed and breakfast facilities, vacation ownership and resorts.
  • TESM-H 191 Sanitation and Health in Food Service, Lodging and Tourism (3 cr.) The application of sanitary and public health engineering principles to food service and lodging operations.
  • TESM-C 205 Facilities and Operations (3 cr.) Previously TESM-H 205. Introduces methods of managing event facilities with a focus on client services, risk management, and event planning across multiple types of venues.
  • TESM-H 218 Wines of the World (3 cr.) Must be be 21 years of age. Discover, appreciate, and use fine wines at the personal or professional level. Wines will be explored alone and in food pairings.
  • TESM-H 305 Food and Beverage Operations (3 cr.) Explores management of off-premise and on-premise food and beverage operations. Topics include menu selection, service styles, delivery outlets, safety, and guest/client relations. Experiential learning activity required.
  • TESM-H 308 Western European Wines (3 cr.) Reach greater heights of wine comprehension by exploring the tastes and history of Western European wines.
  • TESM-H 318 Beer, Wine and Spirits Management (3 cr.) Learn the business of wine, beer and spirits management and apply this knowledge to practical use in the food and beverage service and retail industries.
  • TESM-H 328 Beers of the World (3 cr.) Must be be 21 years of age. Explore the world's great beer styles, including imports and craft beers, as well as beer flavors and off-flavors, the brewing process, ingredients, history, beer, and food pairing, competitions, judging, and more. Sampling and field trips will be required. Students will also be prepared to take the Certified Cicerone exam.
  • TESM-C 325 Selling in Tourism, Event, and Sport Management (3 cr.) Previously TESM-S 301. Introduces students to the fundamentals of the sales process within tourism, event, sport, and hospitality settings. Topics include customer relationship management technology to facilitate the sales process; how to sell by uncovering customer needs and delivering customized solutions; and an experiential learning project where students sell for local industry partners.
  • TCEM-H 371 Conferences, Conventions, and Expos (3 cr.) This course provides students with an understanding of the business-to-business and business-to-consumer events promoted as conferences, conventions, and expositions. Whether a personal or professional focus, they are profit centers for the host organizations, engage large and diverse stakeholder groups, and provide unique logistical challenges.
  • TESM-H 385 Distilled Spirits of the World (3 cr.) Must be be 21 years of age. Examine a historical, social, and business perspective of spirits and practical experience including product and industry knowledge. Gain an appreciation of each category of spirits both on their own and when paired with food.
  • TCEM-H 408 Food and Beverage Pairing (3 cr.) Must be be 21 years of age. Appreciate the subtleties, the nuances, and sheer enjoyment of proper food and beverage combinations.
  • TESM-S 211 Introduction to Sports Management (3 cr.) An examination of the broad spectrum of career opportunities available in the sport management profession.  Special emphasis on career planning, sport management terminology, and an overview of specific skills and courses required for professional preparation in sport management.
  • TESM-S 411 Sport Law (3 cr.) An introduction to legal principles involved in sport. Tort liability, including intentional tort, negligence, and product liability. Covers constitutional law issues, particularly as they relate to athletic eligibility, athletes' rights, sex discrimination, and drug testing and discussion of sport contracts.
  • TESM-S 415 Sport Communication (3 cr.) P: HER-E 210 or NEWM-N 102 This course explores the dynamic intersection of sports and communication, examining how media, organizations, and professionals shape sports narratives. Students analyze digital and traditional media strategies, public relations in sports, crisis communication, and emerging trends in the field. Emphasizes both theoretical frameworks and practical applications in the modern sports industry.
  • TESM-S 418 Sports Marketing (3 cr.) Examination of the elements of the marketing mix as they pertain to the sport enterprise. Also includes the coverage of decision-making and planning from the sport manager's perspective and the impact of corporate sponsorship on the delivery of sport.
  • TESM-S 423 Sport Finance & Analytics (3 cr.) P: TESM-C 100 This course introduces financial principles and analytical tools essential for decision-making in the sports industry. Students will explore financial literacy, budgeting, risk analysis, and the growing role of data analytics for driving performance and business outcomes in sports. Projects will emphasize leveraging data and financial strategies to maximize organizational success.
  • TESM-S 432 Sports Marketing Consulting Project (3 cr.) Challenges senior-level students to apply what they have learned to address a problem or situation presented by a sport organization.  Students will follow a multiple-step process to identify project objectives, collect and analyze data relevant to the problem or situation, and offer strategic recommendations that address the problem or are relevant to the situation.
  • TESM-T 107 Tourism Planning and Development (3 cr.) Introduces students to tourism attractions and destination management organizations (DMOs).  Focus will include management, marketing, and product development of DMOs including convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs) and state tourism offices.
  • TESM-T 207 Tourism Policy and Sustainability (3 cr.) Examines the relationships among tourism, sustainability, and development. Focuses on the development of tourism policy at local, state, national, and international levels. Discusses theories of development as economic, environmental, and socio-cultural concepts.
  • TESM-T 208 Global Tourism Geography (3 cr.) Explores principal geographic features, population centers, and attractions including travel destinations across the world.
  • TESM-T 234 Cultural Heritage Tourism (3 cr.) Analyzes the integration of visitor interests/needs and the protection of cultural and heritage resources.  Elements examined include the various cultural and heritage assets operable as tourism attractions in addition to the link between quality cultural heritage tourism and community development. Emphasis is placed on Indiana cultural and heritage tourism.
  • TESM-T 307 Destination Marketing and Management (3 cr.) This course will provide students with a foundation in the principles and practices of destination marketing and management. This course will examine destination visioning, stakeholder collaboration, destination image management, destination branding strategy, and visitor experience planning and promotion.
  • TESM-T 319 Sports Tourism Development (3 cr.) Examines the relationship between sport and tourism phenomena with regard to community and business growth. Paradigms of experience, historical development, globalization, mobility, sustainability, culture, identity, current practices in sport tourism marketing and operations are core components of this course.
  • TESM-T 329 Tourism Sports Marketing (3 cr.) Analyzes the use of marketing principles in the context of sport tourism and events.
  • TCEM-T 382 Travel Trends and Destinations (3 cr.) Develops an understanding of the patterns, principles, and management of international travel to popular tourist destinations.
  • TESM-T 483 Ecotourism (3 cr.) Promotes responsible, sustainable tourism and "green" travel best practices to minimize impact when visiting tourist destinations. Content includes motivating and changing travel behavior, visitation that improves the well-being of residents, support of local business to stimulate economic development, respect of cultures and local traditions, environmental awareness, and ecological conservation.
  • TESM-T 500 Foundations of Event Tourism (3 cr.) This course will serve as a forum for the discussion of today's tourism, including tourism trends, tourism impact, tourism policy issues, examination of the role of the tourist, the tourism manager, and the host community, etc. Delivery will be through a series of structured lectures, seminars, directed activities, and a research project. This will include analyses of case studies, discussions, slide shows, DVD/videos, guided readings, and individual/group research projects.
  • TESM-T 519 Sports Tourism Management (3 cr.) This course analyzes the interconnectedness of sport and tourism from behavioral, historical, economic, management, marketing, environmental, and policy perspectives. Issues and trends in the sport and tourism industry are also investigated.
  • TESM-T 531 Event Tourism Marketing (3 cr.) The purpose of this course is to help you gain advanced marketing concepts and learn the process of formulating and managing marketing strategy for event tourism. After taking this class, you should be able to: 1) identify aspects of event tourism marketing, 2) review and critically assess different marketing theories and practices in event tourism, and 3) conduct methodological sound marketing research of your own.
  • TESM-T 534 Cultural Tourism Management (3 cr.) The course investigates the socio-cultural complexities of heritage tourism, including values, subcultures. Issues and trends in the management of land/submerged cultural resources and other destinations/events are identified to create more engaging experiences and improve tourist-host relationships. More contemporary facets of cultural tourism such as globalization, new media interactivity and urban regeneration through urban trails, etc. are also investigated.
  • TESM-T 562 Economics of Event Tourism (3 cr.) The course investigates the economic complexities of tourism, including travel behavior, tourism spending, and the costs and benefits for the bigger travel suppliers (the micro level), and countries and governments (the macro level).
  • TESM-T 571 Strategic Meeting Management (3 cr.) This graduate seminar is designed to address contemporary issues facing business professionals in the meeting and event industry. The course will evaluate high-level strategies that address a coordinated approach to planning and evaluating meetings.
  • TESM-C 489 Credit for Prior Learning in TESM (3 cr.) P: TESM-C 100 Required: Junior standing. This course provides students with previous work experience an opportunity to demonstrate the nexus between academic and experiential learning in lieu of completing the required internship course. This demonstration allows students to articulate theories, competencies, and skills acquired through experience. Students focus on academic content, work competencies, and essential skills.
  • TCEM-H 391 Safety, Risk, and Crisis Management (3 cr.) Previously TESM-H 191. Enable students to develop knowledge, skills, and values on the basic principles of risk and crisis management as applied in the tourism and hospitality industry. Topics include risk and crisis management concepts and principles and risk and crisis management applicable to the tourism, event and hospitality industry.
  • TCEM-T 396 Tourism Topics (3 cr.) This course is a special topics course to allow for the deployment of courses that target trends, niches and current issues in tourism.
  • TCEM-S 335 Foundations of Esports (3 cr.) This course will introduce students to the foundations of the industry of Esports. During this course, students will learn the aspects of Esports event production, gain deeper insight into the Esports ecosystem, and understand the impact Esports has as an element of the entertainment industry.
  • TCEM-E 370 Festivals, Live Entertainment, and Community Events (3 cr.) This course explores the design, management, and execution of live public events that incorporate one or multiple entertainment elements. Students will examine the business strategies and unique planning requirements to concerts, music and film festivals, community festivals, parades, and more.
  • TCEM-E 496 Event Immersion Topics (3 cr.) This course investigates event trends and themes. Students will be immersed in topics via experiential learning, case study analyses, independent study and/or service learning.
  • TESM-H 310 Event Catering Management (3 cr.) Exploration of off premise and on premise catering requirement. Concept of event food management including menu planning, budget preparation, logistics management, guest relations and marketing.
  • TESM-C 312 Human Resource Management for the Service Industry (3 cr.) This course is designed to look at the various aspects involved in managing Human Resources. We will look at human resources planning, job analysis, retention, training, recruiting, employee performance measurement, labor laws, and employee benefits.
  • TESM-C 112 Business Foundations of TESM (3 cr.) The principles of planning, organizing, directing and controlling as applied to tourism, event, hospitality and sport management. Issues of organizational change, organizational effectiveness, ethics and the nature of managerial work will be addressed. Includes introduction to business planning, teamwork, and conflict resolution.
  • TESM-G 598 Master's Consulting Project (3 cr.) This course requires students to complete a consulting presentation and report for a sport organization client. Student teams will work under the guidance of faculty supervision and will apply both theoretical and applicable concepts to solve real-world challenges or address potential opportunities for their client.
  • TESM-C 402 TESM Industry Experience (1-12 cr.) P: TESM-C 301. Required: Junior or Senior standing. Provides an immersive, hands-on, learning experience in the tourism, event, and sport industry.
  • TCEM-S 332 Management Principles in Sport (3 cr.) This course examines how management functions impact crafting and executing strategy in the context of the sport enterprise. Students will apply strategic management principles to solving problems faced by firms in the sport and event industry.
  • TESM-T 582 Applied Sport Event Research (1-6 cr.) This course provides an overview of marketing research methods used to assess the effectiveness and impact of sport events. Students work together in teams to conduct research on behalf of an industry partner.