BX2094 - Conference and Events Management
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | College of Business, Law & Governance |
This subject will provide students with an introduction to the conference and events industry. Topics to be included are planning and management of conferences and events, operational aspects of meetings and events, marketing and service quality as applied to event management, and the role of meetings and events in destination development. Students will be involved in a simulated or actual planning process for a conference or special event.
Learning Outcomes
- apply concepts from marketing, consumer behaviour, financial control and human resource management to conference and event planning and management;
- examine the core content areas central to conference and event planning and management including definitions of key types of events and meetings, key elements in the planning of events and meetings, and the role of events in destination development.
| Prerequisites: | 18CP OF SUBJECTS |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | BX3093 TO3038 TO3042 TO5038 TO5042 TO6038 TO6042 |
Availabilities | |
| External, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 23-Aug-2018 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Laurie Murphy |
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| Method of Delivery: | WWW - LearnJCU |
| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); event report (30%); event evaluation or appraisal (30%). |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 23-Aug-2018 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Laurie Murphy |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); event report or appraisal (30%); event evaluation or appraisal (30%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 05-Apr-2018 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Laurie Murphy |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); event report or appraisal (30%); event evaluation or appraisal (30%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 29-Nov-2018 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Laurie Murphy |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); event report or appraisal (30%); event evaluation or appraisal (30%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22 | |
| Census Date 02-Aug-2018 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Laurie Murphy |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); event report or appraisal (30%); event evaluation or appraisal (30%). |
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