Catering

Certificate: Business
Credit Requirements: 23 Semester Credit Hours

The Catering certificate program prepares students to work in the variety of responsibilities inherent to a catering operation. From business considerations to food preparation to off-site logistics, students study the management theories along with culinary applications involved with the range of services required of formal or informal catering operations. All culinary courses are presented in culinary theory with application in kitchens of the Culinary Institute of Charleston at Trident Technical College.

Admission into this program requires proof of high school graduation (or GED) and qualifying scores on SAT, ACT or the TTC placement test.

Recommended Sequence of Courses

First Semester - Fall

 

Principles of Food Production I

3

 

Bakeshop Production

3

 or

Retail Baking

3

 

Hospitality Sanitation

3

 

Purchasing for Hospitality

3

Total 12

Second Semester - Spring

 

Quantity Food Preparation

5

 

Hospitality Accounting Applications

3

 

Catering Management

3

Total 11