About Events Management in Canterbury Christ Church University

The UK’s creative, heritage and service industries attract many visitors, and events are at the heart of this business. A growing number of events, including festivals, conferences and sporting events, have created a demand for qualified events professionals.

As well as developing your analytical and critical reasoning skills you will gain practical experience of pitching and delivering events. The programme is delivered alongside tourism and sports management related courses to enable students to capitalise on a wide range of expertise and research.

Whatever degree you choose to study within Tourism, Events and Hospitality, you will enjoy a fun and stimulating field trip abroad in year one, already included in your fees.

You will explore areas including:

• introduction to the events industry
• contemporary issues in events and tourism
• marketing principles and practice for tourism, leisure and events.

Why study Event Management

The UK specialises in attracting visitors through its contemporary creative, heritage and service industries and events are at the heart of this business. A growing number of events globally, including festivals, conferences, sporting events and the 2012 Olympics, have created a demand for qualified events professionals. This course equips you for employment in this ever-expanding sector and the Canterbury campus, which is situated at the centre of a historic and exciting destination, is located in a great place to capitalise on the opportunities available.

Studying Events at Christ Church guarantees that you will be taught by a qualified and dynamic team of research active staff who are even more excited about the possibilities in the events industry than you are! They are dedicated to ensuring that your course is stimulating and fun.

Who is this course for? 

Our BSc in Event Management has been designed to respond to the growing demand in this area and reflects the need to provide well qualified graduates to meet the challenges of the growing events industry. If you are looking for an event related or management role, or would like to further your interest in the world of events, this course could be the one for you. The programme includes both theoretical and vocational perspectives, combining courses on the planning and management of events with those providing the necessary skills of business and management.

What will i study?

In the first year, the emphasis is placed on introducing you to the range of areas integral to managing events and understanding the environments that form the backdrop of event delivery. This includes core business areas like finance and marketing, event experience design and the study of event impacts. In the second and third years this foundational knowledge is developed with a greater emphasis on analytical and critical reasoning skills alongside practical experience of pitching and delivering events.

To help smooth the transition to study at university, you will take a module called ‘Developing Academic and Personal Skills (DAPS). This module will guide you in small workshop groups through essay writing, academic referencing, access to journals and generally help you settle in.

Work experience

During your events course, you may be offered a variety of internships and work experiences. This is an evolving and changing programme to ensure you get the best opportunities. We currently have students doing internships at Visit Kent, Shepherd Neame Visitor Centre and Buzzlines Travel to name just a few. Our very active and successful Tourism and Event Research Hub also works hard to establish industry links. In year 2 you will be able to take a work place/work based learning module which will enable you to complete a ’live’ task and finish project with employer support. A recent internship with the Hub was entitled ‘Supporting young people accessing meaningful work placements in the Kent visitor economy: a business stakeholders’ perspective’. This 10 week project was a collaboration between the Tourism and Events Research Hub, and Destination Management Organisation, Visit Kent. The project was designed to support an exciting initiative focusing on skills and career progression for young people in the sector: the ‘Kent Hospitality, Tourism and Transport Guild’. The intern worked on a project ‘to explore the perceptions of business stakeholders about the opportunities and barriers related to the provision of work placements for young people in the visitor economy', supported throughout by the project lead at Christ Church and Visit Kent.

Academic qualification equivalents:

• Successful completion of standard 12 th with 60% average and one further year of study

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS         :        6.0, with no less than 6.0 in Writing and no less than 5.5 in Reading, Speaking and Listening.
• TOEFL        :       Total minimum score of 80, with at least 19 in reading, writing and listening.
• PTE            :        overall score of 50 and no PTE communicative skills score below 42

Canterbury Christ Church University Highlights

Canterbury Christ Church University Tuition fee

Canterbury Christ Church University Living Cost

• The weekly living cost for an international student staying at a residential hall/flat/homestay is 384.50 NZD, 305.75 NZD, and 360 NZD, respectively.
• Application deadline for accommodation: December 1 (February intake); May 1 (June intake).