culinary

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Are you passionate about food or preparing it for others to enjoy? Then you are ready to take the first step towards a career in the food service and hospitality industry. Lethbridge College’s Culinary programs will have you quickly on your journey to a career as a chef, cook, baker, restaurant manager or another rewarding and challenging position in the culinary world.

Whether you choose to take our Culinary Careers diploma program or the Weekly Apprenticeship Training System (WATS) for cooks or bakers, our hands-on approach will provide you with the experience and knowledge you’ll need to work in the culinary career of your dreams. All three of our programs can lead to a Red Seal designation, allowing you to practise your trade anywhere in Canada without having to write additional exams.

With our instructors who are great chefs as well as great teachers and our perfect blend of hands-on experience in the kitchen and classroom theory, the culinary programs at Lethbridge College are recipes for success.

* Weekly Apprenticeship Training System

Cook Apprenticeship (WATS*)Baker apprenticeship (WATS*)Culinary CareersCULINARY

Program office: 403.320.3245Job profiles and salaries: alis.alberta.ca/occinfo

* Weekly Apprenticeship Training System

As a cook in the provincial Weekly Apprenticeship Training System program, you’ll be working full-time in the industry while coming to college one day each week to acquire new skills and expand your areas of expertise. You’ll learn about preparing, seasoning and cooking a variety of foods as well as baking pastries and showpieces. You’ll also test your organizational skills when you study menus to estimate food requirements and oversee menu planning. In three short years, you’ll be ready to write the Red Seal exam, a recognized standard that employers seek out.

If you have a genuine interest in preparing food, possess a keen sense of taste and smell, and are creative, flexible and able to work as a member of a team, then look to Lethbridge College’s apprentice Cook program. All of the ingredients are in place to create a masterpiece.

THREE-YEAR APPRENTICESHIP

ON-CAMPUS AUGUST ADMISSION

Year I Year IIYear III

Tuition $784 $784$784

Fees $191.25$191.25$191.25

Books/supplies$305$103.95$112.75

COOK APPRENTICESHIP (WATS*)

The three years of culinary school were a great experience. The challenges presented to me by both the program, as well as my instructor, Chef Doug, have really helped shape me into the chef I aspire to be.”

Carolyn van SchothorstCook (WATS) 2014

Admission requirements

Successful completion of English 10-2, Math 10-3, or a pass mark in all five Canadian General Educational Development (GED) tests, or entrance exam. English 30-2, Math 30-3, Physics 20 or Chemistry 20 or Science 20, and related career and technology studies courses are recommended.

Career opportunities

• restaurants• clubs• institutions• hotels• bases and camps

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Courses include

• Pâtisserie• Butcher shop and cooking proteins• Saucier• Management controls and nutritional components• Bakeshop• Cold kitchen

lethbridgecollege.ca/cook culinary@lethbridgecollege.ca Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training: tradesecrets.gov.ab.ca

Weekly Apprenticeship Training System (WATS) programs involve one day of training per week at Lethbridge College throughout the length of the program.

Blend your passion for baked goods into a career you love in the Baker Apprenticeship. As a baker in the provincial Weekly Apprenticeship Training System (WATS), you’ll be earning dough while making dough – you’ll work full-time in the industry and attend class just one day a week.

On campus, you’ll acquire new skills and expand your expertise in the art of baking. From preparing cakes, pastries and quick breads to becoming certified in Food Safe, you’ll cover it all. And you’ll gain organizational and management skills studying formula calculations to estimate baking requirements and daily menu planning. On the job, you’ll be able to immediately test out your newly acquired skills and expertise. In three short years, you’ll be ready to write the Red Seal exam, the Canadian standard for excellence in skilled trades.

Bake your passion into a career in Lethbridge College’s Baker Apprenticeship program.

THREE-YEAR APPRENTICESHIP

ON-CAMPUS AUGUST ADMISSION

Year I Year II (pilot program)Year III

Tuition $784 $784

Fees $191.25$191.25

Books/supplies$305$200

BAKER APPRENTICESHIP (WATS*)

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* Weekly Apprenticeship Training System

Admission requirements

Successful completion of English 10-2, Math 10-3, or a pass mark in all five Canadian General Educational Development (GED) tests, or entrance exam. English 30-2, Math 30-3, Physics 20 or Chemistry 20 or Science 20, and related career and technology studies courses are recommended.

Career opportunities

• specialty bakeries• restaurants• catering companies• camps and hotels• supermarkets

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Courses include

• Standard workplace safety• Yeast raised goods• Cookies, cakes, pastries and quick breads• Creams, custards, fillings and icings• Trade mathematics

lethbridgecollege.ca/bakerculinary@lethbridgecollege.ca Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training: tradesecrets.gov.ab.ca

Weekly Apprenticeship Training System (WATS) programs involve one day of training per week at Lethbridge College throughout the length of the program.

Students sell their baked goods in the campus

Culinary market

The Culinary Careers program at Lethbridge College is as well-planned as the best gourmet meal. As an appetizer, we’ll teach you about restaurant production methods, then move on to a second course showing you sweet and savoury techniques during the next 16-week semester. For the main course, we serve up a paid industry placement; you’ll get an education and earn money at the same time. For dessert, you’ll be immersed for 16 weeks in dining-room cuisine in our on-campus restaurant.

While you’re with us, you will have plenty of opportunities to prepare real meals for real customers, create menus, work in teams and explore your creativity. And you won’t have to worry about finding employment when you’ve completed our program; our grads have a perfect record of landing that important first job.

Get started in your culinary career today – at Lethbridge College.

COMPRESSED 16-MONTH DIPLOMA**

ON-CAMPUS AUGUST OR JANUARY ADMISSION

Year I Year II

Tuition $3,114 $2,336

Fees $1,470$1,269

Books/supplies$774$182

CULINARY CAREERS

** If already employed in the culinary industry, students can also take our Cook Apprenticeship Program (WATS).

Admission requirements

Grade 10 English and Grade 10 Math

Career opportunities

• executive chefs• sous chefs• teachers• small business owners

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Courses include

• Production skills• Meat cutting and meat cookery• Stocks and sauces• Buffets and bakery• Gala banquets and hot salon

[Lethbridge College] brings students in from all over the world; it’s a great program, has great instructors and is just a great place to be.”

Jeremy LangemannCulinary Careers 1995Executive Chef, St. Charles Country Club, Winnipeg

lethbridgecollege.ca/culinaryculinary@lethbridgecollege.ca Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training: tradesecrets.gov.ab.ca

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paid industry work placement as part of our Culinary Careers program

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