2016-17 BTC Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Culinary Arts
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Overview
If you love cooking, have a passion for food and have always dreamed of being a chef, then Bellingham Technical College’s Culinary Arts associate degree program is for you. BTC’s programs and certificates in Culinary Arts and Pastry Arts are ideal for students with cooking skills and an interest in the fast-growing food service industry. You’ll receive training from an award-winning faculty in state-of-the-art kitchens and get the skills and experience you’ll need to get top jobs in the fast-paced culinary field. Hone your culinary arts skills and gain training in every aspect of food service – from chef to restaurant manager to hostess – at BTC’s Café Culinaire, where students run the International Buffet in winter quarter and a full-service a la carte restaurant in spring. To expand on your cooking skills, you can also take classes for your pastry arts certificate and get training for the best pastry chef jobs.
Program Outcomes
- Graduates will be able to safely store perishable and non-perishable foods from delivery through preparation and service.
- Graduates will be able to conform and comply with health standards based on US Food and Drug Administration, Washington State, and local health department sanitation and hygiene codes and laws.
- Graduates will be able to apply fundamentals and advanced skills in cookery, fabrication, product specifications, and food and beverage service.
- Graduates will be able to plan, prepare, and cook food products consistently in a visually appealing manner while maintaining taste, nutritive value, flavor, and texture in classical and contemporary cooking methods.
- Graduates will be able to correctly prepare a variety of classical breads, pastry items, and desserts with the ability to correctly evaluate finished products for proper texture, color, palatability, shape, and doneness.
- Graduates will be able to plan, develop and analyze the dining room layout, facility design, menu design, cost analysis, marketing plan, and projected profit and loss statements.
- Graduates will be able to plan, organize and execute a la carts, buffet, plated banquets.
Program Entry Information
The program typically starts in Fall Quarter on a space available basis
Program Start
- Culinary Arts & Pastry Arts Classes: A grade of “C-” will be the minimum passing grade for any Culinary and Pastry class.
Testing Requirements
These requirements are for the AAS degree and are lower than those for the AAS-T degree. Please see the AAS-T Entry Page for AAS-T requirements.
- ACCUPLACER Arithmetic score of 50 or a C grade in MATH 090 or ABE 050 .
- ACCUPLACER Reading Comprehension score of 71 or a C grade in RDG 085 , and ACCUPLACER Sentence Skills score of 71 or a C grade in ENGL 092 .
Degree and Certificate Requirements
Culinary Arts AAS Degree and Pastry Certificate completion requires a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or greater and minimum grade of C-/1.7 for culinary and pastry courses. AAS-T Degree requires a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or greater and minimum grade of C-/1.7 for culinary and pastry courses and minimum grade of C/2.0 for all academic courses.
ProgramsAssociate of Applied Science
Associate of Applied Science - Transfer
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