Culinary Arts and Management FdA

Develop your knowledge, understanding and skills to enable you to work within the food and beverage trade. Underpin your subject knowledge in menu engineering, principles of customer experience and the regulatory constraints surrounding healthy options in line with government initiatives.

You develop advanced practical skills in the kitchen particularly in creative and developmental aspects of current trends. You consider the management of running a kitchen in depth. You may be entered for City and Guilds Level 3 Kitchen and Larder depending on your ability.

You gain the necessary theoretical and practical foundation necessary to understand and analyse the management and development of people in Industry. In addition to exploring the importance of effective recruitment and selection, you will also examine staff management and key aspects of employment law. You use a combination of real-world examples and case studies to explore organisations within the sector and examine how they manage and develop staff. The relationship between effective recruitment and development is also explored.

You investigate an authentic business challenge, creating links and relationships with potential employers, and demonstrating an understanding of the application of theoretical principles in a work-based learning situation. You also learn how to apply simple research methodologies and investigate the results.

The range of employment opportunities in any industry are diverse, from specialist operatives to strategic managers. Research and explore your industry of interest and formulate a career action plan, detailing your strengths and weaknesses to bridge any skills and knowledge gaps.

You develop advanced culinary skills in the kitchen, particularly in the creative and developmental aspects of food innovation, considering the current trends in industry as well as the key drivers and influences. You explore the historical and current perception of the industry, with an appreciation of innovative concepts that can be applied in the contemporary hospitality industry.

You examine issues in creative design and product development, as well as staffing, health and safety and the selection of specialist equipment. You build practical skills and creative flair through assessments and hands-on experience with professional chefs, combining innovation and applied expertise for successful sector management.

You gain an overview of patisserie and confectionery in culinary arts. You explore current trends within the patisserie and confectionery sector as well as the key drivers and influences. You also examine issues relating to creative design and product development, as well as staffing, health and safety and the use of specialist equipment. You develop your practical skills and creative flair through assessment and working with professional chefs in a commercial environment - to bring together the creative and practical skillset essential to successful management in the sector.

You gain an understanding of the impact of intercultural issues on businesses. The increase in globalisation within service industries presents a range of cultural awareness and diversity challenges to managers in contemporary business organisations. You use recognised theory and principles to develop an understanding of cultural diversity and its impact on a range of business activities. You explore the practices and approaches of businesses working across national boundaries and the complexities in dealing with them.

You gain an overview of gastronomy by exploring its historical and current perspectives, and how its principles apply to today’s hospitality industry.
You explore food science and investigate the physical and chemical transformations of ingredients that occur in cooking. You also explore human senses with sensory evaluation of foods that provide the basis for continued study.

Apply your wider learning in a working environment. Take part in a project with an organisation of your choice to improve an aspect of its operations. This provides a solid platform to showcase your skills, enhancing employability, and supporting you to understand the application of research methodologies and analysis of results.