RTE 374 - Festivals and Events

Description:
Students will learn the purposes, mechanics, and leadership skills required for planning and executing community festivals and special events of a social nature. Formerly RT 374, students may not receive credit for both.

Credits: (4)

Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments

Learner Outcome	Activity (optional)	Assessment
1. Articulate the historic roots of celebration within diverse communities.		Lecture, assignments, testing. Design and develop appropriate themes for festivals and various special events.
2. Create a plan for an event, using appropriate psychographic factors affecting the event’s length, purpose and outcomes; needs assessment, and the phases of event leadership.		Project (group): Produce an event plan that is an interagency blueprint encompassing event stakeholders; and present it.
3. Develop on paper the resources for entertainment options and know how to stage the event experience.		Present and demonstrate entertainment options. Be involved in an actual event function and be evaluated by peer group and professional organizers.
4. Integrate technical specifications, and vendor contracting into the event plan.		Report onsite inspections at two or three venues before and during events to observe hardware and personnel functions required for exhibit setup, utilities, flow of people and materials.
5. Articulate the benefits of training and directing a diverse staff and volunteers		Submit completed time and resource management tools (charting software) that show management of human resources at a sample event. Reproduce examples on exams.
6. Demonstrate leadership in terms of solving problems and act decisively.		Achieve an acceptable performance of duties at an actual event. Achieve an acceptable level of response in writing, in class presentation, and on exams to test case studies.