The Bachelor of Culinary Arts to provide students with the theoretical and practical principles and aspects of culinary arts, including hot and cold kitchen, charcuterie, patisserie and kitchen management. The degree aims to equip students with knowledge, professional, scientific and technical skills and values to pursue a career in Culinary Arts.

The Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management seeks, among other, to develop tourism programmes that are responsive to industry needs for specialists in Namibia and the SADC region as a whole. The Bachelor of Tourism Management seeks to equip students with broad knowledge, professional and technical skills and values to pursue a career in tourism management.

The revised programme is designed in response to industry needs in Namibia and the SADC region. A need for qualified tourism management experts in both the public and private sectors was identified and confirmed through consultation with industry key stakeholders and Programme Advisory Committee. Tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in Namibia and highly labour intensive (see for example, Namibia’s Skills Deficit Report 2010, Tourism Human Resource Strategy for Namibia, 2011, Tourism and Hospitality Sector Skills Plan, 2015 & National Human Resource Plan, 2010-2015).

The programme includes all courses covered in the first two semesters of the Certificate in Hospitality Operations (Level 5). At this level apart from the emphasis on technical skills and quality delivery of customer service, there is also an emphasis on written and verbal communication skills, basic computer and accounting skills. The students are therefore expected to take additional courses in English language, a foreign language, and business accounting and computer skills.

The Bachelor of Hospitality Management seeks to enable students to demonstrate a systematic, professional scientific and technical knowledge, skills, and values needed to make decisions in the hospitality industry.

The Bachelor of Economics specifically aims at:

• Providing students with a good foundation in the fundamental concepts, theories and frameworks of economics;

• Developing the ability of students to analyse information from a wide range of sources;

• Equipping students with the requisite skills to work effectively as individuals and as members of teams; and,

• Enabling students to communicate effectively in the workplace

This programme is purposefully designed to prepare students who completed their Accounting degrees (NQF Level 7 or equivalent) at institutions that are not accredited by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in South Africa (SAICA), and/or the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Namibia (ICAN), to enter a Postgraduate Certificate in the Theory of Accounting (PG CTA), which is required by SAICA and ICAN for entry to Part 1 of the Qualifying Examinations (QE1) leading to the Chartered Accountant (Namibia) (CA, NAM).

The Bachelor of Accounting (Chartered Accountancy) is intended for students who wish to pursue careers in Accounting in the public practice (chartered accountant), including auditing and taxation.

The Bachelor of Accounting is intended for students who wish to work as accountants in various types of businesses including pursuing further academic studies. The degree represents a coherent introduction to the broad knowledge, concepts and problemsolving techniques in the areas of Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, Taxation and Auditing.

The programme’s main emphasis is on the evaluation and application of public management theories and public sector data in order to solve complex problems that face the public sector and civil society organisations, while also catering for the needs of the private sector. Students are required to complete a combination of compulsory and elective courses, as well as a Mini-thesis.