2024-2025 Catalog 
  
    May 30, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog

Baking Certificate of Achievement


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Code: COA.BAKING

The Certificate of Achievement in Baking introduces the student to hands-on quality baked products which include yeast breads, puff pastry, quick breads, cakes, pies, as well as decorating techniques. Obtaining these skills, the student becomes eligible to work in various settings where high quality freshly baked products are prepared both small and large scale. Graduates are eligible for positions in retail, lodging, catering and in restaurants.

Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

  1. Learn the complexities of weighing and measuring accurately; in both metric and customary USA units.
  2. Use the earned industry-approved ServSafe Certification.
  3. Demonstrate proficiency in specialized baking, production, and decorating.
  4. Prepare baked products according to type of venues small and large scale
  5. Innovate bakery and pastry shop menus according to the needs of various clientele

Career Pathways

Baker Pastry Chef Chocolatier
Cake Designer Supervisor: Retail or Wholesale Baking and Pastry  

Subtotal: 9 Credits


Total Credit Hours: 18


Specific Program Notes

Students are encouraged to take their courses in semester sequence order.

Please note that required courses may have prerequisites. Click on each course to view details.

  1. Students enrolled in this program ARE NOT REQUIRED to successfully complete a course in basic algebra if indicated by Accuplacer Test.
  2. Those who completed this certificate in Continuing Education will receive credit for HRM-103  and HRM-110 .
  3. Students in this Certificate of Achievement program can apply all 18 credits if they wish to advance to a 30-credit Certificate and/or a 6O-credit AAS degree program at Bergen Community College.

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