BPA - Baking and Pastry

All professional pastry chefs need to be able to produce high quality plated desserts. This class focuses on complex classical and modern plated desserts. Students gain experience with both hot and cold desserts and novel decorating techniques. Students also learn how to set up or "mise en place" a pastry station in a kitchen to prepare desserts to order. Students focus on identifying and pairing contemporary flavor combinations. Prerequisite: BPA 170, BPA 203, BPA 215, and BPA 241. 4 quarter hours

This course enables students to challenge, test, and hone the knowledge and skills they have acquired and developed in the kitchen and classroom. Through this experience, students build subject matter expertise while continuing to develop the values, attitudes, and behaviors that will make them successful in the workplace. Each student must complete this 400-hour supervised internship at an approved site and maintain a 3 to 5 average on supervisor evaluations, and submit a portfolio, written reports, and a business analysis paper. Prerequisites: CUL 126 or CUL 026, BPA 170, CUL 110, and third block comprehensive exams (BPA 092 and BPA 093). 6 quarter hours

This course is taken with BPA 211. It enables students to challenge, test, and hone the knowledge and skills they have acquired and developed in the kitchen and classroom. Through this experience students build subject matter expertise while continuing to develop the values, attitudes, and behaviorss that will make them successful in the workplace. Each student must complete this 400-hour supervised internship at an approved internship site and maintain a 3-5 average score on supervisor evaluations, produce and submit written reports, a business analysis paper, and an internship portfolio. Prerequisites: CUL 126 or CUL 026, BPA 170, CUL 110, and third block comprehensive exams (BPA 092 and BPA 093).

This course provides students the opportunity the first internship for another 400 hours to gain additional knowledge and deepen their internship experience. Credit is awarded on a pass-fail basis for full-time employment, amounting to an additional 400 hours over a three-month period. Each student must complete this 400-hour supervised internship site and maintain a 3 of 5 average score on supervisor evaluations produce and submit written reports, a business analysis paper, and an internship portfolio. Enrollment in this course requires prior approval from the college's Career Services Department and must be completed the quarter immediately following BPA 211. Prerequisite: BPA 211