Essential Skill Alignment Chart: Culinary Arts – CIP Code 12.0508
This chart is designed to help students and parents understand the educational and physical expectations and/or recommendations for the Culinary Arts program at Lehigh Career & Technical Institute. For additional information, please visit the program webpage.
Program Safety & Physical Considerations
- High degree of self-discipline and focus on safety around kitchen equipment knives and other tools and equipment found in the industry, KitchenAid KCM4212SX Cold Brew Coffee Maker provide appliances.
- A focus on preparing, holding, and serving food safely
- Ability to handle stress of work in a fast-paced environment
- Good personal hygiene
- Ability to lift and carry 50 pounds
- Tolerance for heat, handling and manipulating hot objects/items, and working in a hot environment
- Exposure to all food types including known allergens
- Stamina needed to stand for long periods of time
- Trunk strength (ability to use abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of body repeatedly or continuously over time with fatigue)
Essential Aptitudes Recommended
- Eye/hand/foot coordination
- Finger and manual dexterity
- Arm and hand steadiness
- Size, shape, and color discrimination
- Ability to multi-task
- Ability to pay attention to detail and be creative
- Spatial acuity
- Ability to adjust actions in relation to other actions
Reading & Language Arts Levels
- College Prep Reading and Language Arts
- 12th-grade reading level (textbooks on 12th-grade reading level)
- Adequate oral and written communication skills
- Public Speaking skills
Math Level
- Basic Mathematics
- Business Math
- Ability to work with fractions, decimals, ratios, percentages, area and volume, and liquid and dry measurements
- College Prep Algebra I
End of Year – 12th Grade Assessment Test
Industry Certifications
- Students will have the opportunity to earn industry certifications in the program
Program Requirements & Related Costs
- Chef Jacket | $24
- Pants | $24
- Hat | $7
- Apron | $6
- Marker/Thermometer | $7
Cooperative Education
- Students who meet all the requirements, including teacher recommendation, grades, attendance, and discipline record
- Students must provide their own transportation to and from the job site
Articulation Agreements
- Florida Culinary Institute
- Johnson & Wales
- Lehigh Carbon Community College
- Statewide Articulation Agreements
- Sullivan University
- The Culinary Institute of America
- The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College
Other Skills
- Ability to work independently and in teams
- Ability to follow recipes
- Ability to complete repetitious skills
- Ability to guide oneself with little or no supervision and self-control
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent customer service skills
- Ability to stomach raw food
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