Baking and Pastry, CoA

Program Description

The Certificate of Achievement in Baking and Pastry prepares students to become baking and pastry professionals and teaches the fundamentals and techniques with emphasis on hands-on preparation of breads, cakes and pastries. Graduates are prepared for success in this high demand profession and challenging positions in retail and wholesale bakeries, pastry shops, upscale restaurants, hotels, and casinos, assisted living centers, educational institutions, supermarkets, hospitals, ski and lake resorts, corporate cafeterias and commissaries.

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Program Requirements

Certificates of Achievement are a set of courses that can serve as a stepping stone to an associate degree or allow students to enter the workforce.  Certificates of Achievement have a general education component.

To earn a Certificate of Achievement, students must:

1. Maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 (see requirements for graduation.)
2. Complete a minimum of 15 semester credit hours within the college.
3. Satisfy General Education requirements for the Certificate of Achievement.
4. Have no financial or library obligation to the college.

Program Outcomes

Students completing the certificate will:

PSLO1: Demonstrate basic and advanced culinary skills through a series of learned competencies including but not limited to knife care, cutting techniques, stock preparation, and functions of the bakery including terminology and bakery fundamentals.

PSLO2: Demonstrate the knowledge to work in commercial hot food kitchens, and commercial bakery kitchens.