This Sample Program Pathway is designed to provide an example of course selections in a term by term sequence. Please see an Academic Advisor for a plan specific to your academic needs.
Description: This course is an introduction to food preparation techniques and culinary theory. Basic concepts of kitchen organization and operation, basic terminology, use of standardized recipes, weights and measures, product evaluation, recipe conversion, food composition and introduction to commercial equipment and work methods. American Culinary Federation competency skills included. HMT 1107 must be completed prior to registering for this course or may be taken at the same time. Four lab hours per week.
Description: This course will provide an overview of the Hospitality and Tourism Industry. Topics include in-depth views of the restaurant and culinary industry, lodging industry, meeting and events, tourism, casinos, cruise-lines and more. Hospitality Interactive simulation, My Hospitality Lab, and service scenarios will provide an experience of fun socialistic learning. Successful students of this course will receive a Hospitality Reception and Service Specialist short term certificate.
Description: Sanitation and safety involves key concepts such as harmful micro-organisms, contamination and food-borne illnesses, the nine steps within the flow of food from supplier to service, minimum internal cooking temperatures/times for proteins, food safety management systems, sanitary facilities and pest management control. Students must successfully pass a national sanitation exam to pass the course. Students who are culinary or baking majors may not register for kitchen lab courses without a current servsafe certification.
Description: This course is specifically for Culinary Arts and Baking & Pastry Arts majors. The math requirement for this course will form the foundations needed for costing of food and beverage, recipe conversion, bakers scaling (of liquid verses dry weights), edible product yield percentages, and menu cost cards. Students will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in converting improper as well as mixed number fractions, (add, subtract, multiply, and divide) decimals, solve complicated word problems and more.
Prerequisites: MAT 0050 or Other (satisfactory score on math placement test) and Restricted to Majors
Term hours subtotal:
9
Description: Preparation of culinary cuisine with a wide variety of plate production techniques including soups, sauces, vegetables, fruits, grains, salads, meats, game, poultry, fish and seafood. Apply food pairing, plating, and garnishing techniques to culinary cuisine. Skill training based on American Culinary Federation competencies. Includes recipe conversion, product evaluation and maintenance of a safe, sanitary kitchen. One classroom, six lab hours per week.
Notes: HMT 1112 requires pre-requisites that must be taken even though they are not required for the certificate (HMT 2201 and HMT 2207).
Prerequisites: and HMT 2207 and HMT 2200 or HMT 2201 and HMT 1101 and HMT 1107 and Other (Note: HMT 2201 AND HMT 2207 may be taken concurrently with HMT 1112) or Approval of Department
Description: This course is designed to provide students with the principles of supervision in the hospitality and tourism industry and the associated responsibilities. Topics include managing resources, team building, productivity cost formulas and the unique supervision techniques used in restaurants, lodging, bakeries, kitchens, and meeting and event planning. The course emphasis will be on leadership.
Prerequisites: HMT 1105
Description: In English Composition I students learn reflective, analytical and argumentative writing strategies, incorporating sources and personal experience. Students will negotiate between public and private rhetorical situations and purposes to achieve academic literacy. They will write multiple drafts using a recursive writing process as they work toward fluency in style and mechanics. Note: Students who have not successfully completed the pre-requisites listed can register for ENG 1101 together with the co-requisite course ENG 0101 - English Composition I Booster.
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Placement Test Score)
Term hours subtotal:
10
Description: Survey of financial accounting for non-accounting majors. Accounting concepts, financial statements, internal control, cash, and payroll.
Notes: Program elective. Choose from one of the following courses: ACC 1100 or ACC 1210
Description: Use word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation software applications to create reports, spreadsheets, databases and presentations for business and other applications.
Term hours subtotal:
6
Description: Menu design and development, standardizing recipes, cost controls and pricing. Practical applications in varieties of table service, catered events and customer service processes. Two classroom hours per week and a total of thirty lab hours to be conducted as part of the Tartan Terrace Dining Room service experience.
Description: Food service functions regarding negotiations, laws, buying, science, packaging, distribution, ingredient process, storage, organization, cost controls, security, garden(s) sustainability, and procurement processing experience(s). One classroom, two lab hours per week.
Prerequisites: HMT 1105 and HMT 1110
Description: University-parallel course covering history and systems of psychology, behavioral research methods, physiology of behavior, sensation, perception, learning, memory, consciousness, cognition, personality, lifespan development, gender, social psychology, motivation, emotion, stress, mental disorders and therapies.
Notes: Program elective. Choose from one of the following courses: PSY 1100 or SOC 1145
Term hours subtotal:
8