Advanced Professional Culinary Arts - Scottsdale Community College

Advanced Professional Culinary Arts from Scottsdale Community College is a Campus Associate Food degree that prepares you for a Vocational Programs career. Description: The Associate in Applied Science (AAS) in Advanced Professional Culinary Arts provides a comprehensive, hands-on course of study. It is designed to enhance and refine the skills of graduates from basic culinary arts certificate programs and to provide skills to advance the careers of current employees in the culinary industry. Instruction emphasizes specialized techniques in preparation and use of meats, seafoods, poultry and game, including production of stocks, sauces and butchering. Professional baking and pastry courses cover preparation of base products, sauces, breads and rolls, pastries, pies, cakes and decorative and design work with chocolate and sugar. Advanced garde manger instruction is provided in creating complex salads, sandwiches, appetizers and hors d'oeuvres. Professional kitchen management instruction provides essential principles to build proficiency in leadership and organizational skills. Program Competencies: Identify, describe and apply advanced fabrication, preparation and presentation methods for varied meat products. Identify, describe and apply advanced fabrication, preparation and presentation methods for varied fish and seafood products. Identify, describe and apply advanced fabrication, preparation and presentation methods for varied game and poultry products. Identify and describe best practices in professional kitchen management. Identify and apply techniques for the preparation of simple and complex salad and sandwiches. Demonstrate and identify key elements in the production of hors d'oeuvres, canapes, and appetizers. Demonstrate and describe appropriate techniques for production of base products and sauces for a bakeshop. Demonstrate and describe appropriate practices for hands-on production of high quality breads and rolls. Describe and perform the preparation of complex pastries, pies and cakes. Demonstrate techniques and procedures necessary to produce decorative and design items and show pieces using chocolates and sugars. View more details on Scottsdale Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Food courses.