Instructional Leadership, emphasis: K-12 School Leadership (MEd)
Outside view of the School of Hotel and Restaurant Management building with students walking in front.
  1. NAU
  2. Franke
  3. HRM
  4. Hotel and Restaurant Management Experiential Learning
  5. Internships and work hours
  6. Outline directions

Outline directions

Objectives

Based on the minimum requirements to receive HA208 or HA408 academic credit, please
discuss with your employer, then write down in a one-page outline how you will meet or exceed
these requirements.

  1. Work Hours: How will you meet or exceed these minimum hours required?
  2. Term Project: Name the project and provide a brief paragraph of how this will be
    executed.
  3. Exposure/cross-training in 2 or 3 positions/departments: Name each position or dept
    and state the responsibilities you will participate in.
  4. Exposure/learning to supervisory/management: State different ways you will get
    learning in supervisory/management skills sets.
  5. HA208/HA408 online Bb-Learn course: You must have weekly access to the internet in
    order to complete this online component to the internship.

Here’s an example of what your outline may look like…

  1. I will exceed my minimum 540 hours of work required by working 40 hours per week for
    16 weeks which equals 640 hours for the internship.
  2. My term project will be developing a cost control excel spreadsheet for the restaurant for
    budgeting purposes by interviewing the managers for info on menus, product purchases,
    results needed…develop an excel spreadsheet based on the information gathered.
  3. The 3 departments/positions/areas I will get exposure/cross training in are…
    • Restaurant supervisor – responsibilities are…
    • Back of house w/ chef – responsibilities are…
    • Shadow GM – what that looks like and how often
  4. Exposure and learning to management will be…
    • Supervise FOH of restaurant
    • Learning schedules, inventory processes, financials, hiring/interviewing/firing
    • Shadow F&B Director
    • Attend all manager meetings
  5. Execute and submit required Learning Activities in online HA408 Bb-Learn class for 12
    credit hours – 2 E-books & corresponding quizzes, 2 management interview summaries
    with signed business cards, discussion topics, journal entries, journal summary, performance evaluation, and verification of total work hours.