Culinary Arts and Food Service Management

decoration Culinary Arts and Food Service Management

Purpose
Culinary Arts and Food Service Management aims to transform student passion for food and cooking into careers as future chefs, restaurant owners, food and beverage managers, and more. The program focuses on classical culinary principles and techniques. Coursework is sequenced in building blocks of knowledge and skills with an emphasis on learning by doing.

Learning Outcomes

The graduate of the one-year certificate program will:

  • develop basic culinary skills, including cooking techniques, baking skills, principles of volume cooking, and food quality standards
  • operate equipment including cooktops, food processors, ovens, dough mixers, meat slicers, espresso machines, cash register, and a variety of kitchen tools

In addition to the above outcomes, the graduate of the Two-Year AAS will:

  • develop a broad range of culinary and dining room service skills
  • develop supervisory and human relations skills
  • understand the fundamentals of financial analysis, purchasing and receiving, menu planning and costing, and food and beverage controls
  • gain hands-on experience planning and preparing large events in the Center for Meeting and Learning

Liaison to the area
Juanita Benedicto
Reference Librarian
E-mail: benedictoj@lanecc.edu
Phone: (541) 463-5357
Web: http://www.lanecc.edu/library/staff/juanita/

Allocation
Culinary Arts and Food Service Management shares an annual allocation $1000 with the Hospitality Management Progam. This amount goes towards books, videos, and journals.

Monographic support
Culinary Arts and Food Service Management is classed by the Library of Congress in TX and TP. In our library, the average publication date for books in this call number range [TX] is 1988 and 1982 [TP].

Other areas of support include

Journals, including e-journals

Online databases

General databases

  • Academic Search Premier: Provides full-text for more than 4,450 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
  • MasterFILE Premier: This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications. Includes nearly 400 full text reference books, 91,600 biographies, 75,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

Business

  • Business Source Premier: Provides full text for more than 3,650 scholarly business journals. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. Updated on a daily basis.
  • Regional Business News: Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated daily.

Newspapers

  • The Oregonian
  • New York Times Online
  • Register-Guard
  • Newspaper Source

Library instruction

  • None at this time

Statement of future direction

  • Collect more titles in areas A, B, C (etc). Statement to be made in conjuction with department.
  • Back homeProvide a general library orientation to incoming students in the Fall.