Baking & Pastry Arts
School of Hospitality
Hager Lifelong Education Center, Rm. A125B · (570) 327-4505
Mission & Objectives
Mission:
To exemplify and promote excellence, opportunity, and leadership through:
- Sequential development of fundamental to advanced baking and pastry art skills, with a concentration on creativity and style through real world experiences
- Development of professionalism through the concentration and building of self pride, character, independence, and community service
Objectives:
- Establish and maintain high standards of sanitation
- Exhibit a strong foundation of baking methodology
- Exhibit nutritional awareness and implement food-for-life principles
- Plan production of product and purchase, cost, and price product for profit
- Exhibit a solid foundation of techniques for food preparation, presentation, and service, including competence in baking and pastry production, line work, and basic garde manger
- Use problem solving techniques in maintaining kitchen morale and building a team spirit
- Communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing
- Conform to professional standards in appearance, attitude, and performance
- Conform to established codes of ethics
- Demonstrate display techniques as they apply to hot and cold dessert presentations
- Demonstrate basic knowledge and skills for display pieces including chocolate, marzipan, pulled sugar, and nougat
- Plan and present a grand pastry buffet
- Demonstrate working knowledge of the factors involved in setting up and operating a baking and pastry facility
- Demonstrate the ability to keep accurate food business records and understand the relationship between financial profits and good business ethics
- Demonstrate creativity and sound thinking in solving management problems in merchandising techniques
- Demonstrate a commitment to the profession through activities such as attending meetings, seminars, continuing education programs, and professional association memberships
- Demonstrate knowledge of the fundamentals of microcomputers
- Develop a career portfolio
- Develop skills for and a commitment to the process of lifelong learning
- Develop skills for problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking
- Apply knowledge of physical activities and sports in maintaining health
- Demonstrate all Certified Pastry Culinarian competencies and outcomes required by licensing by the Accrediting Commission of the American Culinary Federation Educational Institute