Culinary Arts & Hospitality (ProStart)

Grade Level:   9, 10, 11, 12

Course Length:   Each courses runs one semester

Credit:    0.5 per semester of academic elective credit

Prerequisite:  None

Fee:   $50 (Covers FCCLA membership and cost of food for the course)

Location:                 
Englewood High School
3800 S. Logan Street 
Englewood, CO 80113

2025-26 Schedule: TBD

Description: This course is designed to introduce students to a variety of culinary skills and food preparation. Through instruction and culinary lab practice, this class will provide an opportunity for students to learn food preparation and demonstrate food safety. Some topics include introductory culinary skills and preparation of items such as quick breads, yeast breads, and eggs; as well as meal and menu planning, nutrition, and food-borne illnesses. Students will be able to: Demonstrate the correct procedures and techniques in introductory culinary labs. Analyze nutritional guidelines and plan menus that are nutritionally balanced. Demonstrate food safety standards. Students are encouraged to take Catering following this course.

Grade Level:   9, 10, 11, 12

Course Length:   Each course is one semester

Credit:    0.5 per semester of academic elective credit

Prerequisite:  None

Fee:   $50 (Covers FCCLA membership and cost of food for the course)

Location:                 
Englewood High School
3800 S. Logan Street 
Englewood, CO 80113

2025-26 Schedule: TBD

Description:  This course provides students with the fundamentals of basic cake, pie, pastry, and cookie production, as well as the fundamentals of basic yeast-raised production and quick breads. It enables the student to produce a variety of cakes, pies, pastries, cookies, assorted desserts and white bread, rolls, specialty breads, sweet yeast-raised products, and quick breads in a commercial kitchen. Students will learn the fundamentals of baking terminology, the principles of baking, and the characteristics and functions of the main ingredients used in bakery production. 

 

Grade Level:   11, 12

Course Length:  Year-long

HS Credit:   0.5 per semester of academic elective credit

Prerequisite:    Culinary Nutrition and/or Catering and/or teacher approval

Fee:   $100 (Covers FCCLA Membership, cost of food for the course, and chef coat)

Location:                
Englewood High School
3800 S. Logan Street 
Englewood, CO 80113

2025-26 Schedule: TBD

Description:  ProStart is an academically rigorous 2-year career-building program for high school students in the field of culinary arts. Colorado ProStart is sponsored by the National & Colorado Restaurant Associations. It is a two-year foodservice hospitality management curriculum.

This nationally certified program is a competency-based study of food preparation, lodging, customer service, and business management coupled with 1+ year of mentored industry work internships in a broad spectrum of operations. ProStart 1 and ProStart 2 will be offered in alternating years. Students may enter the program either as a junior or a senior by starting in either ProStart 1 or ProStart 2. ProStart 1 is not necessarily a prerequisite for ProStart 2. Successful participants in the program will have the opportunity to compete in ProStart Invitational Competitions at the State and possibly National level as well as the FCCLA State Leadership Competition and apply for multiple industry scholarships.

Grade Level:   12

Course Length:  Year-long

HS Credit:  0.5 per semester of academic elective credit

Prerequisite:    ProStart 1 and ProStart 2; teacher recommendation

Fee:   $100 (Covers FCCLA Membership, cost of food for the course, and chef coat)

Location:                
Englewood High School
3800 S. Logan Street 
Englewood, CO 80113

2025-26 Schedule: TBD

Description:  This program combines work-based, on-the-job training with relevant technical education in the classroom. Students who participate in this program earn college credits and industry credentials. They also start on a career path that continues after high school graduation – whether that is a continuation of their apprenticeship along with college, college only, apprenticeship only, or other full-time employment.