Culinary Arts

This program emphasizes techniques of the modern culinary kitchen. Students learn cooking and baking from scratch skills for soups, sauces, meat and seafood production, yeast-raised breads, cakes, pies, and pastries.

The program focuses on the fundamentals of nutrition, menu planning, cost control, purchasing, marketing, safety, and sanitation. Students gain practical experience in advanced line cooking, dining room management and beverage service in Chez Lena, our student-operated restaurant, which is open to the public.

Emphasis/Degree Options

Associate of Applied Science

Culinary Arts

Certificate

Culinary Arts

Career Options

Chef de Cuisine

Certified culinarian

Executive or pastry chef

Dietitian

Food, beverage or banquet manager

Restaurant owner/manager

Program Strengths

• Classes are taught in a modern culinary kitchen
• On-campus full-service restaurant
• Work-like classroom environment
• Two enrollment periods per year; students bay begin classes in the Fall or the Spring

Visit the Chez Lena restaurant, which operates through the Colorado Culinary Academy at the Tilman M. Bishop Campus, for exciting and unique menus that change weekly.