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Event Management

1-YEAR ONLINE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

Learn how to plan, organize, and manage meetings, coordinate service functions, develop marketing plans, sharpen sales techniques, and evaluate services for improvement.

The Event Management Certificate at Cayuga Community College offers students a fully online certificate designed to prepare them for careers with an event planning company or industries needing experts in planning events, including hotels, conference centers, corporations, non-profit organizations, catering companies and entrepreneurs in event planning.

The program must be completed online in a minimum of two semesters. Select degree requirements may be offered on campus and online.

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Requirements for the Event Management Certificate Program
COURSES CREDIT HOURS
FIRST SEMESTER
BUS 150 Business Communications 3
BUS 216 Personal Selling 3
BUS 225 Microcomputer Application Software 3
BUS 248 Event Planning 3
BUS 206
OR
BUS 245		 Human Resource Management
OR
Supervisory Management		 3
  15
SECOND SEMESTER
BUS 252 Convention & Meeting Management 3
BUS 253 Non-Profit Event Management 3
BUS 254 Marketing for Hospitality & Tourism 3
BUS 260 Project Management 3
BUS 275
OR
ENTR 200		 Business Internship (NYS Residents Only)
OR
The Entrepreneurial Process		 3
  15
TOTAL CREDIT HOURS 30

A prior felony conviction may hinder a student’s ability to enroll in a course or complete the requirements of certain academic programs and/or meet the criteria for licensure required by certain professions.