Course

10109110 Meeting Coordination
Course Information
Description
Provides a solid understanding of the numerous tasks and details involved in coordinating a meeting or conference. Students explore meeting room layouts and comfort factors, planning timelines and documents, commonly used audio-visual equipment, and food and beverage functions and trends.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies (Course Outcomes)
  1. Research the environment of meetings and room set ups
    Assessment Strategies
    Discussion Board postings
    Syllabus Quiz
    Terminology Assessment
    Criteria
    Identify common elements of a meeting and various room set ups

  2. Examine food and beverage functions and trends
    Assessment Strategies
    Food and beverage assessment
    Criteria
    Analyze common food and beverage functions and industry trends

  3. Explore audio visual and technology services
    Assessment Strategies
    Audio visual assessment
    Technology journal
    Criteria
    Identify common audio visual services used in the event industry
    Analyze technology services used in the event industry

  4. Determine meeting room size and comfort factors
    Assessment Strategies
    Discussion board postings
    Comfort factor assessment
    Design assessment
    Criteria
    Analyze various meeting room designs and sizes
    Calculate comfort factors

  5. Create Event Specifications Guide
    Assessment Strategies
    Written Product-Event Specifications Guide
    Criteria
    Create event specifications guide based on given scenario

  6. Meet requirements found within the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
    Assessment Strategies
    ADA Worksheet
    Discussion board postings
    Criteria
    Explore the history of the Americans with Disabilities Act
    Articulate how the Americans with Disabilities Act is important with regard to the meeting industry

  7. Compare and contrast independent meeting planning services, meeting management firms and contracted services
    Assessment Strategies
    Third party research paper
    Criteria
    Differentiate between independent meeting planning services, meeting management firms and contracted services

  8. Examine the importance of committees and volunteers to events
    Assessment Strategies
    Committee and Volunteer Assessment
    Criteria
    Explore the various types of committees and volunteers that are essential to the event planning process
    Identify sources of volunteers

  9. Analyze onsite management needs
    Assessment Strategies
    Onsite management assessment
    Criteria
    Relate the importance of an event's onsite management needs to the success of an event