Chef Apprenticeship Major Description

Hospitality Management provides quality learning experiences to enhance initial employment opportunities and to improve technical and supervisory skills for career advancement in food service, lodging and tourism. Columbus State Community College, in cooperation with the American Culinary Federation Columbus Chapter, offers the theory-related classroom instruction and on-the-job training required for the National Apprenticeship Training Program of the American Culinary Federation (ACF).

The Chef Apprenticeship Major is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Hospitality

Management Programs (CAHM) and the American Culinary Federation Foundation Accrediting Commission. It consists of 3 years or 6,000 hours on-the-job training as an apprentice to a qualified chef in an approved full service restaurant, club or hotel. At the same time, the apprentice attends classes at Columbus State one full day each week. A Supplemental Application to the Chef Apprenticeship is required. Upon completion of the program, the apprentice receives an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Hospitality Management. The graduate qualifies as a Certified Culinarian (CC) through the ACF and a Journeyman Chef through the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training.

 
For answers to specific questions or to request a Chef Apprenticeship application, please call the Hospitality Management Department, (614)287-5126, or write to the department at Columbus State Community College, 550 E. Spring Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215. The advisors for this major is: Jim Taylor, CEC, AAC (jtaylor@cscc.edu

Related professional association web sites: www.acfchefs.org, www.nraef.org

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