2004-05 Undergraduate Catalog
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705
 

Website: www.iup.edu/culinary

The Department of Culinary Arts offers a four-semester (sixteen calendar months), competency-based, noncredit certificate program. This distinctive program provides hands-on learning experiences, including fundamental culinary theory and on-the-job work experience, giving each student the necessary skills and knowledge to begin a successful career in the field of culinary arts. During the last semester of study, students are placed with a distinguished employer in a prestigious resort or restaurant for a paid externship experience. This contemporary approach to learning enables students to achieve advanced levels of proficiency in both culinary techniques and business management skills while they advance through the certificate program. Through internal articulation agreements, graduates may transfer up to 42 credits of coursework toward a baccalaureate degree in Hospitality Management and up to 37 credits toward a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition. In addition, an optional summer European Study Tour is offered through which students may earn 3 credits.

The program holds accreditation by the American Culinary Federation and is offered at the Academy of Culinary Arts in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.