• Hospitality Tourism and Recreation Pathway  

    The Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation industry sector includes California’s fastest-growing industries: travel, recreation, and food and hospitality. Nearly 900,000 jobs are directly supported by the travel industry, making tourism the state’s third largest employer; and the industry is expected to expand by more than 2 percent per year through 2014. Food service occupations, ranging from food production and service to the study of human nutrition and wellness, bring in over $970 million a day and account for 8 percent of jobs worldwide. The California restaurant industry is the largest employer in the state, providing 957,000 jobs, with annual projected sales of $51.5 billion and sales tax revenues of $4 billion. Students choosing a career in this industry sector are eligible for positions throughout the world, with potential for advancement and ready availability of continuing employment. To support this burgeoning sector, colleges and universities throughout California and the United States offer courses and degree programs in this field.

     

    Freshmen / Sophomore:


    Foods 1

    Do you like to eat? Do you need a food handler’s card for a food service job? In this course you will learn knife skills, food safety practices and working in the kitchen. You will learn how to make basic foods, pizzas, dietary guidelines for foods and meal planning and more! This course articulates with Diablo Valley College as CULN 153. (With a grade of B or better on the exam and the course you will receive college credit transferable to any 4 year college.)

     

    Junior / Senior:

    Advance Foods: Baking/Pastry


    Do you like to bake? Try different seasonings with your food? The purpose of this advanced course is to provide the culinary student with the core culinary and technical skills used in the food, restaurant and hospitality industry. The concentration of the course is applying techniques of baking and pastry. This course Articulates with Diablo Valley College as CULN 153 and CULN 105 (With a grade of B or better on the exam and the courses you will receive college credit transferable to any 4 year college.).