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May 13, 2024
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2020-2021 Spring Edition [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Event Planner Occupational Skills Award
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The Event Planner Occupational Skills Award prepares the student with skills that are necessary to become a successful planner within the industry. The focus will be on details, vision, organization and the means to produce both big and small events. Event Planners may work on a freelance basis, for an event planning company and/or nonprofit organization and for-profit corporations. Coursework covers planning and directing an event from start to finish. This will include: promotions, music, hospitality, merchandise and/or vendors, stage, rentals, culinary, lighting, selecting a venue, budget, and an internship in the field.
After completion of the skills award, students will be eligible for a position in the following areas: fashion event planner, assistant event planner, fashion show event planner, assistant event coordinator, and assistant event manager.
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Program Student Learning Outcomes
Students who complete this program will be able to:
- Produce a special event which will include: selecting the venue, theme, stage, promotions, music, lighting, merchandise, hospitality and staying within a given budget.
- Create a professional portfolio depicting their produced event while highlighting all of the necessary skills to become a successful event planner. Skills include: budgeting, logistics, promotion, communication, scheduling, procurement and measuring the overall success of the event.
- Complete an industry internship including the completion of three individual goals/objectives as determined by themselves and an industry supervisor.
REQUIRED CORE:
Course ID |
Title |
Units |
BUS 160 |
Entrepreneurship |
3 |
FASH 101 |
Introduction to Fashion Careers |
3 |
FASH 147 |
Special Events Coordination and Promotion |
3 |
FASH 148 |
Visual Merchandising |
3 |
FASH 145 *§ |
Internship |
1 |
CWE 180 *† |
Co-Op-Ed Fashion |
1 |
TOTAL UNITS FOR THE AWARD:
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14
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*Course has a prerequisite, corequisite, limitation, or recommended preparation; see course description.
†Recommended to be taken in last semester of program.
§Must be taken concurrently with CWE 180*.
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