CULINARY ARTS FOUNDATION
Certificate of Specialization
Program Details
The Culinary Arts Foundation Certificate of Specialization provides job skills in a career technical educational program. It is designed to integrate academic and lab training with real life experience in the field of Culinary Arts. Selected courses within the curriculum meet requirements for entry level employment, food safety certification, transferability to CSU, and also provide students with lifelong learning knowledge as well as consumer and industry-applicable skills.
CULINARY ARTS FOUNDATION Pathways
Pathways listed below are for the catalog year 2021-2022. Maps for previous years are available on each pathway page. What is a catalog year?
Featured Careers
Find your calling. Explore high-earning careers with entry-level data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Bakers
High school diploma/GED, No high school diploma/GED
- Job growth: Stable
- Low salary: 27,560
- High salary: 48,260
- Average salary: 36650
Chefs and Head Cooks
Associate's degree, Certificate after high school
- Job growth: Rising
- Low salary: 36,000
- High salary: 96,030
- Average salary: 60990
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All Careers in CULINARY ARTS FOUNDATION (7)
| Chefs and Head Cooks | Associate's degree, Certificate after high school | Rising | 60,990 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooks, Private Household | Certificate after high school, High school diploma/GED | Declining | 44,530 |
| First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | High school diploma/GED, No high school diploma/GED | Rising | 42,010 |
| Cooks, Restaurant | High school diploma/GED, No high school diploma/GED | Rising | 36,830 |
| Bakers | High school diploma/GED, No high school diploma/GED | Stable | 36,650 |
| Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria | High school diploma/GED, Certificate after high school | Stable | 36,450 |
| Cooks, All Other | - n/a | - n/a |
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Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes help you work towards your educational goals.
- Apply the knowledge, skills, and ethics as they pertain to the requirements of the professional kitchen, utilizing the hands-on skills and techniques of the tools that are necessary to achieve required satisfaction of the employer and customer.
- Perform hands-on food preparation, as it pertains to the changing industry, of many products and ingredients of all food groups that are commonly used throughout culinary careers.