Overview

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Start date -late August

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This is a ten month certificate program designed to prepare students for a career in Baking using practical assignments in an industrial setting.

VIU's new wood-fired brick oven.

In addition to theory courses, the program covers artisan and commercial breads, rolls, sweet yeast products, pies, puff pastry, cookies, cakes, decoration, icing and finishing, French pastries, muffins, cup cakes, marzipan and chocolate. Also covered in the program are safety, conventional kitchen skills, sanitation, personal skills, and elementary management procedures. Students will also be trained in the operation and use of our newly built wood-fired brick oven (the first in a Canadian Educational facility).

You will spend one hour each day in classroom lectures and the rest of the time in practical training. Because the assignments are light many students are able to work part-time accumulating apprenticeship hours.

VIU's program will give you the foundation you will need if you wish to train to become a Professional Baker; it may provide one year's credit towards the three-year apprenticeship program.

Equipment

• Bakery tools and decorating kit
• Professional quality knives
• Textbooks
• Uniform

Career Options

Graduates of the program have found work as baker's helpers or baking apprentices in retail outlets, supermarkets, department stores, hotels, lodges, bakery-related franchises and camps.