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HRI 202 Information Technology for International Hotel and Restaurant Businesses This course covers fundamental programming used in the hotel and restaurant industry – specifically, the Computer Reservation System (CRS) such as OPERA Reservation System in a specialized computer lab. HRI 301 Quality Service Management This course emphasizes the principles and techniques ing the total quality concept and techniques for managing, controlling, and improving quality. The course also aims to convey knowledge of the quality management process and key quality management activities, such as setting quality standards, understanding the concepts of customer value and evaluating customer satisfaction, dealing with customer complaints and gaining a better understanding of the problems associated with improving quality through case studies. HRI 402 Human Resource Management in International Hotel and Restaurant Businesses This course will provide an in-depth understanding of the roles and functions of members of the human resources department in the hotel and restaurant business. The emphasis is placed on the modern day importance of human resources management and the new “corporate view” of the function, program design, recruitment and selection, training and development, implementation and evaluation, employee counseling, discipline and termination, equal employment, as well as labor relations. HRI 405 Research for Hotel and Restaurant Industry This course covers research methods and expected benefits of research for the hotel and restaurant industry, the development of research questions, research design, sampling, developing tools required for collecting and recording data, statistics programming utilized in data analysis, and the presentation of data used for a wide range of business development. HRI 406 Seminar in International Hotel and Restaurant Businesses Prerequisite: HRI 265 and HRI 365 /or HRI 466 This is a seminar in analyzing problems concerning the hospitality industry and trends in the international hotel and restaurant business. The course provides lecture sessions by specialists in related fields with topics that students can apply to their particular case studies.