Culinary Arts

The Culinary Arts Academy is a skill/attitude-based program design to assist graduating students with knowledge, skills, and hands on experience to help prepare them to work in the fast-paced and rapidly changing field of culinary arts. The combination of skills gained through this training is highly transferable to technical jobs in many sectors of the economy.

Job Outlook

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Real World Experience

  • Job-shadow, internship, or Exploring program
  • Work Seminar / Employment Skills

Choose at Least Three of the Following Foundational Required Courses

  • Foods for Today
  • Ethnic Foods
  • Healthy Food, Nutrition & Wellness
  • Nutrition for Athletic Performance

Recommended Courses

  • Unified Cooking
  • Introduction to Public Speaking
  • Word Processing / Keyboarding I
  • Personal Finance
  • Global Perspectives
  • Accounting
  • Chemistry
  • Health
  • Psychology
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Career Options

  • Baking and Pastry Arts/ Baker/ Pastry Chef
  • Bartending/ Bartender
  • Cooking and Related Culinary arts, general
  • Culinary Arts and related services, other
  • Culinary arts/ chef training
  • Culinary Science/ Culinology
  • Food Preparation/ Professional Cooking/ Kitchen Assistant
  • Food Service, Waiter/ Waitress, & Dining Room Management / Manager
  • Institutional Food Workers
  • Meat Cutting / Meat Cutter
  • Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/ Manager
  • Wine Steward / Sommelier

Academy Instructor

Kristi Ellingson
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Job Skills

  • Listening Skills
  • Critical thinking
  • Customer Service
  • Organizational Skills
  • Effective Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Time Management
  • Career and Maintenance of equipment
  • Professionalism
  • Integrity

Business & Industry Experiences / Partners

“Students in the academy will participate in job shadowing, internships, and possible part – time employment with area businesses.”

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