Culinary Arts

Calling all foodies! If you love learning about food and creating culinary experiences and have a passion for managing a professional kitchen, a career in the culinary arts will provide lots of tasty opportunities. 

Allan Hancock College’s Culinary Arts and Management program combines both traditional and contemporary educational methods to prepare students for a variety of careers in the hospitality, tourism, or recreation industries. Professional managers, chefs, dietitians, and food science instructors teach basic culinary, nutrition, and management skills both in the classroom and in a professional-level industrial teaching kitchen. 

Students learn to create new recipes, market and sell their creations on campus, taste and critique classmates’ prepared dishes, run their own bakery, restaurant, or catering business, design and present a career portfolio, and supervise others in a “real life” restaurant or bakery setting. Training culminates with a local business internship giving students the professional experience they need to quickly enter the workforce. Hancock partners with local industry professionals to provide paid internships, where students also receive college credits, so students “earn and learn.”

The Culinary Arts and Management Program will prepare students to succeed in the hospitality industry. This is the most diverse and exciting career path, with plenty of high-paying opportunities right here on the Central Coast or across the globe.

The Associate in Science in Culinary Arts and Management will prepare students for entry-level employment or to transfer to a university for further study. 

This program will help you to: 

• identify which sector of the hospitality industry you belong in
• demonstrate competency in safe, sanitary, and efficient production and service operations
• analyze and respond to differing business climates
• demonstrate competency in oral, written, and electronic communications
• supervise and train a diverse employee pool in best industry practices
• follow all the governmental laws and regulations pertaining to food and beverage operations
• demonstrate basic baking and cooking skills using current industry tools and equipment
• gain hands-on experience in our commercial Culinary Arts Lab

To view the program requirements and suggested course sequences for the degrees and/or certificates available for this program, please visit the course catalog.

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