Culinary Arts

     This program is for the highly motivated career-oriented person who desires to work in a restaurant or other food service establishment as a professional chef. This fast-track, quality training program combines general education
studies, career courses and hands-on professional food preparation. Potential employment opportunities exist in food
preparation and supervisory positions in restaurants, food catering services, and institutional food services in schools,
colleges, hospitals, nursing homes, and business establishment facilities.

Prospective students must take the College Placement Test prior to entering the program. Culinary Courses will run in three week blocks each semester. Classes are conducted Monday through Thursday, allowing the student the weekend to pursue job opportunities in the field. Challenging externship experiences will be custom-matched to the student’s individual career goals. Students have been successfully placed in local restaurants and hotels as well as in Atlantic City and in exciting externships at Disney World and other locations internationally. A-mid program assessment will be administered at the end of the students’ first year preceding CULA 299.Students must successfully pass the
SERV-SAFE sanitation examination to receive the degree.

      The Culinary Education Center of Monmouth County, the product of a unique collaboration between Brookdale Community College and The Monmouth County Vocational School District.

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