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RECN 213

Event Planning

Course overview

This course will enable you to become multi-tasking and multi-skilled in a number of important areas in event planning. You will gain highly transferable knowledge, skills and experience that will enable you to prepare, plan, organise, run, and review similar community-based events, such as sporting/recreational events, music/cultural/artistic events, specialist interest/community events, parades/festivals/display events and sponsored/fundraising events.

Course information

Prerequisites and Restrictions You must satisfy the following requirement(s):
  • a minimum of 75 credit point(s) from the course(s) specified below
  • a minimum of 75 credit point(s) from the course(s) specified below
  • any level 100 course
  • any level 200 course
  • any level 300 course

and

  • restriction Recreation, Event and Programme Planning, RECN-212

Available semesters Semester 1 2025
Credits 15
Domestic fees $887.00

What you will learn

After successfully completing this course, you’ll be able to:

  1. Classify different types of events based on their characteristics.

  2. Develop an event concept plan.

  3. Create a basic budget for an event.

  4. Apply a range of event project management techniques to successfully and efficiently run an event.

  5. Evaluate the success of an event.

Course examiners

Trudie Walters

Trudie Walters

Senior Lecturer

Critical Event Studies

trudie.walters@lincoln.ac.nz