My Spring ‘07 class schedule, all of these required for my degree:

• Service Operations Management
• Hospitality Facilities Design
• Restaurant Management
• Restaurant Management Lab (working in the restaurant yayy)
• Managerial Communications II
• Finance (some sort of finance that is required and apparently different from the ones I took before)

…yes, such is the life of a hotelie. But really, these classes are challenging and I’m looking forward to them.

Also, here are the classes I’ve taken over my 2 years here (*=required for hotelies):

• Deans Distinguished Lecture Series*
• Organizational Behavior and Interpersonal Skills*
• Microeconomics for the Service Industry*
• Managerial Communication I*
• Microcomputing*
• Wind Ensemble
• Cornell Symphony Orchestra
• The Anthropology of Food and Cuisine (College of Arts and Sciences)
• Freshman Writing Seminar** (College of Arts & Sciernces, see below)
• Introduction to Hotel Operations*
• Introduction to Foodservice Operations*
• Financial Accounting*
• Hospitality Quantitative Analysis*
• Human Resources Management*
• Finance*
• Marketing Management for the Service Industry*
• Information Systems Management*
• Inventing an Information Society (College of Engineering)
• Managerial Accounting*
• Culinary Theory and Practice*
• Culinary Theory and Practice- Cooking Lab*
• Hospitality Development and Planning*
• Advanced Business Modeling (intensive MS Excel course)
• Spa Management
• Hospitality & Business Law
• Service Operations Management
• Special Events & Catering
• Seminar in Culture and Cuisines
• Culture & Cuisines Culinary Lab

**= most freshman at Cornell, regardless of college or AP scores, are required to take two first-year writing seminars (hotelies are one exception and only have to take one of these seminars). These courses are capped at 17 students and are a made up of students from all different colleges at Cornell. You can choose from hundreds of topics and you will definitely find one that interests you…and if you don’t, well, you can always take the writing seminar called “Portraits of the Self” and write about… yourself.