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Hospitality and Restaurant Management, AAS

Location(s): Central Campus


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The Hospitality and Restaurant Management, Associate of Applied Science degree outcomes include hands-on food production and service in two separate operations. Program outcomes include business operations concepts such as menu management, controlling costs, and advanced hospitality business concepts including marketing and sales, human resources, and financial statements. Program emphasis is based on understanding your guest and anticipating their expectations for successful operations. Students develop short-order, multi-tasking cooking and service in the Apache Scratch Preparation Café. Students also create and prepare multicourse prefix meals with staggered guest service.

The Hospitality and Restaurant Management program is a good starting point to transfer to four-year university hospitality programs.

TJC Culinary Arts has an articulation agreement with the Conrad N. Hilton College of Global Hospitality Leadership at the University of Houston.

Marketable skills for this award include: leadership, communication, teamwork, time management, and customer service.

 

Associate of Applied Science

TSI Complete

General Education Requirements: 15 Credits


Every Associate of Applied Science degree plan must contain at least 15 semester hours of general education courses. At least one course must be taken from each of the following areas: humanities/fine arts (language, philosophy & culture/creative arts), social/behavioral science (social and behavioral sciences/American history/government/political science), and natural science/mathematics (life and physical sciences/mathematics).

Major Courses: 45
General Education Requirements: 15

Total Semester Hours: 60


Recommended Course Sequence:


First Semester


Second Semester


Third Semester


Fourth Semester


Total Semester Hours: 60


Note: Courses with an asterisk (*) represent general education requirements.

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