Diploma Level

Course Content and Duration

The Tour Guiding Diploma Course leads to a professional tourist guide career. On successful completion of the course students will obtain a license which will allow them to act as guides in the Maltese Islands.

This is a full-time three-year (six semesters) programme of studies at the Institute plus a compulsory period of fourteen (14) weeks Local Industrial Trade Practice (LITP) and a fourteen (14) week language practice programme abroad.

The Diploma will be awarded after successful completion of the three (3)-year programme of studies.

Entry Criteria

Applicants should possess:

• Ordinary SEC Certificate in English as a compulsory subject
• Additional Ordinary SEC Certificates or equivalent in another language from Maltese, French, Italian, German or Spanish
• One foreign language from any of the above needs to be at Intermediate Level
• Additional Ordinary Sec Certificates or equivalent

The following are the preferred subjects:

• Maltese History
• History
• Environmental Studies
• Geography
• Social Studies
• European Studies
• Any other language

All applicants will be assessed on the basis of their Accreditation for Prior Learning (APL) score, composed of their academic qualifications and their Accreditation for Prior Experiential Learning (APEL). All applicants will be required to attend for a personal interview.

Applicants for the Diploma in Tour Guiding course are required to have a minimum APL/APEL score of fifty (50) credits.

Minimum Age

The minimum age of applicants for the above mentioned programme of studies is seventeen (17) years of age as on the 30th June 2006.

Modules covered:

FLS 15 - INTRODUCTION TO MALTESE HISTORY AND CULTURE

FLS 24 - STRUCTURES OF EVERYDAY LIFE

TLS 09C - COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR TOUR GUIDES

TLS 09D - TECHNICAL LANGUAGE SKILLS - ENGLISH

TLS 10AA - PRACTICAL GUIDING TECHNIQUES PART 1

TLS 10B - PRACTICAL GUIDING THEORY

TLS 10C - TECHNICAL LANGUAGE SKILLS - FOREIGN LANGUAGE

FLS 22 - INTERACTIVE MULTILEDIA TECHNOLOGIES

LSTG - LIFE SKILLS

TLS 09A - MALTESE HISTORY

TLS 10D - PRACTICAL LANGAUGE SKILLS

HLS 12 - MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES

TLS 09B - TOUR DESIGNING

FLS 25 - CUSTOMER CARE AND CLIENT RELATIONS

HLS 09 - HISTORY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

HLS 30 - MALTESE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURE TOURISM

TLS 10AB - PRACTICAL GUIDING TECHNIQUES PART 2

- DEVELOPMENT OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN MALTA

- MANAGING PEOPLE FOR TOUR GUIDES

- MALTA TODAY

- MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY

- LANGUAGE PRACTICE PROGRAMME

Apart from the above modules, the students have to attend a number of Tutorial Sessions throughout that year.

Tutorial Sessions

Throughout each academic year the students will be asked to attend a number of set tutorial sessions arranged with their assigned tutor.

During these tutorials the student will receive:

• Career guidance
• Feedback on academic performance
• Support in case of poor performance
• Guidance and support in social and personal development
• Comments on absenteeism

To obtain the credit value students need to attend their compulsory tutorial sessions. Students are also welcome to attend further tutorial sessions should they or their assigned tutor feel it is necessary.