1. Professional Foundation Courses
(1) Introduction to Tourism
  The course which clarifies the characteristics and nature of tourism aims to reveal the relationship between socio-politics, economy, and cultural development. Besides, it explores the general rules of tourism activities, making a summary of tourism theories and methods and rendering good practical guiding significance of the study of tourism branches and courses.
(2) Introduction to Hotel Management
 Introduction to Hotel Management based on related theories and methods is to reveal the rules of hotel business in practice. Its mission is to lay solid theoretical foundation for personnel training in hotel management so that they can obtain long-term and stable opportunities of development and promotion. Hotel Management Course is also designed to give students some basic understanding of the origin and development of hotels, hotel services and management and a clear understanding of organization, system and strategies.
(3) Tour Guides Practice 
  Tour Guides Practice provides procedures of tour guides, basic tour guide skills, how to handle incidents, classification of tour guides, working conditions and importance, as well as common sense and various incidents.
(4) Tourism Laws and Regulations
  As an integrated course of tourism and laws, Travel Regulations introduces Tourism Law, Contract Law, basic knowledge of Tax, Consumer Protection Law and so on.
(5) Tour Guides Basic Knowledge 
  Tour Guides Basic Knowledge is not only listed as a compulsory curriculum for the guide license exam, but also an essential course for personnel training. This course is mainly based on China's geography, history, religion, architecture, landscape, folklore, food, specialties, tourism resources, major source countries as well as Shanxi Province's tourism situations.
(6) Introduction to Source Countries
  The course talks about China's major tourist source countries' geography, humanities, history, economy, politics, culture, folklore, tourism, foreign policies and relationships with China .
(7) Public Relations and Social Etiquette 
  This course covers basic principles of etiquette, personal image, relevant rules in foreign affairs and so on.
(8) Tourism Psychology 
  Tourism Psychology mainly talks about the psychological area of tourism. The whole curriculum construction and development are closely related to world tourism economy and China's rapid development of tourism.