Hospitality and Tourism Courses

Grade: 9-12          Credit: 1 – full year

RISD: CT7400      PEIMS: 13022200

        WT7400

Prerequisite: None

Endorsement: B&I

Lake Highlands High School, Pearce High School, and Richardson High School Magnet ONLY

This is an introductory course for the hospitality and tourism industry, which includes lodging; travel and tourism; recreation, amusements, attractions, resorts, and restaurants.  Components of the course include time management, career goals, technology software applications, teamwork skills, job safety, roles of the industry, and research skills applicable to the industry.

Grade: 9-12          Credit: 1 – full year

RISD: WT7409     PEIMS: 13022200

Prerequisite: None

Endorsement: B&I

Richardson High School Magnet ONLY

This is an introductory course for the Hospitality and Culinary Arts industry.  Components of the course include time management, teamwork skills, job safety, roles in the industry, food production, healthy food choices, nutrition, sanitation, basic skills, and techniques involved in basic cookery while exploring career opportunities in the food service industry.

Grade: 9-12          Credit: 1 – full year

RISD: CT7411      PEIMS: 13022550

        WT7411 – RHS Magnet ONLY

Prerequisite: None

Endorsement: B&I

Pearce High School and Richardson High School Magnet ONLY

Introduction to Culinary Arts will emphasize the principles of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling the management of a variety of food service operations. The course will provide insight into the operation of a well-run restaurant. Introduction to Culinary Arts will provide insight into food production skills, various levels of industry management, and hospitality skills. This is an entry level course for students interested in pursuing a career in the food service industry. This course is offered as a classroom and laboratory-based course.

Grade: 10-12        Credit: 2 – full year

RISD: WT7403     PEIMS: 13022600

Prerequisite: Interview

Endorsement: B&I, Multi

Advanced course

Pearce High School and Richardson High School Magnet ONLY

Culinary Arts is designed to prepare students for the growing demands of accomplished chefs, sous-chef, and restaurant managers.  While learning food preparation in a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen, students will also develop the necessary skills for food preparation and restaurant management.

Grade: 10-12        Credit: 2 – full year

RISD: CT7435   PEIMS: 130226500

WT7435     

Prerequisite: Culinary Arts

Endorsement: B&I, Multi

Advanced course

Pearce High School and Richardson High School Magnet ONLY

Advanced Culinary Arts will extend content and enhance skills introduced in Culinary Arts by in-depth instruction of industry-driven standards to prepare students for success in higher education, certifications, and/or immediate employment.

Grade: 11-12         Credit: 2 – full year

RISD: CT7404      PEIMS: 13022700

  WT7404 (Magnet ONLY)

Prerequisite: Culinary Arts and Interview

Endorsement: B&I, Multi

Advanced course

Pearce High School and Richardson High School Magnet ONLY

This course provides occupationally specific hands on training designed to develop knowledge and skills for employment in food production, management, and services.  Instruction includes operation and management of a foodservice establishment, marketing strategies, quantity food production skills, food presentation and service techniques, and technology applications in the foodservice industry.  Students can exhibit their skills and knowledge in an onsite state of the art kitchen and café.

Grade: 12                  Credit: 1 – full year

RISD: CT4403        PEIMS: 13023000

Prerequisite: 3 credits of science, Principles of Hospitality and Tourism

Endorsement: B&I, Multi

Advanced course

This course is the study of the nature of foods, the causes of deterioration, the principles underlying food processing, and the improvement of foods for the consuming public with 40 percent of instruction laboratory based.  Components of the course include scientific methods and inquiry, food safety and microbiology, food chemical properties, food enzymes and properties, food additives, food basic nutrients, food groups, USDA guidelines, and food preservation.  This course can count as an advanced science credit.

Grade: 9-12         Credit: 1 – full year

RISD: CT7433     PEIMS:

Prerequisite: Intro to Culinary Arts

Endorsement: B&I

Richardson High School Magnet ONLY

Foundations of Restaurant Management will provide instruction in the staffing, directing, and controlling of daily operations of a restaurant as well as insight into the operation of a well-run restaurant. Instruction may be delivered through laboratory training as well as in class.

Grade: 10-12         Credit: 2 – full year

RISD: CT7402       PEIMS: 13022500

Prerequisite: None

Endorsement: B&I

Lake Highlands High School and Richardson High School Magnet ONLY

This course incorporates management principles and procedures for the travel and tourism industry as well as destination geography, airlines, international travel, cruising, travel by rail, lodging, recreation, amusements, attractions, and resorts.  Students experience a multitude of learning activities utilizing technology information tools in industry areas as safety, team-building skills, people behavior skills, employability and communication skills, reservation techniques, and create multimedia publications.

Grade: 10-12         Credit: 1 – full year

RISD: CT7434       PEIMS: 13022300

Prerequisite: None

Endorsement: B&I

Lake Highlands High School and Richardson High School Magnet ONLY

Hotel Management focuses on the knowledge and skills needed to pursue staff and management positions available in the hotel industry. This in-depth study of the lodging industry includes departments within a hotel such as front desk, food and beverage, housekeeping maintenance, human resources, and accounting. This course will focus on, but not be limited to, professional communication, leadership, management, human resources, technology, and accounting.

Grade: 11-12        Credit: 2 – full year

RISD: CT7407      PEIMS: 13022900

Prerequisite: Travel and Tourism Management or Hospitality Services

Endorsement: B&I, Multi

Advanced course

Lake Highlands High School and Richardson High School Magnet ONLY

This course is a two-hour block for non-paid internships, which provides occupationally specific training designed to develop knowledge and skills for employment in the multifaceted hospitality services industry.  Emphasized are career options; managing multiple family, community, and career roles; business procedures; laws; industry technology applications; safety; sanitation; customer relations; and other knowledge and skills for employment.

Grade: 12            Credit: 2 – full year

RISD: CT7408     PEIMS: 13022910

Prerequisite: Travel and Tourism Management or Hospitality Services

Endorsement: B&I, Multi

Advanced course

Lake Highlands High School and Richardson High School Magnet ONLY

This course is a two-hour block for non-paid internships, which provides occupationally specific training designed to develop knowledge and skills for employment in the multifaceted hospitality services industry.  There will be continued emphasis from Hospitality Services & Tourism 1 for employment in lodging operations and food and beverage operations.  Content includes an orientation to supportive operations such as sales and marketing, quantity food production, human resources, accounting, security, and engineering.

Grade: 11-12         Credit: 3 – full year

RISD: CT7410       PEIMS: 13022905

Prerequisite: None

Endorsement: B&I, Multi

Advanced course

Work Program – Richardson High School ONLY

This course is a unique practicum experience that provides opportunities for students to participate in a learning environment that combines classroom instruction with actual business and industry career experiences. Students are employed part time in the operation of restaurant and other food/beverage services, lodging, attractions, recreation events and travel related services. Classroom instruction is composed of employability skills applicable to their job training site. Additionally, students will learn job interview techniques, communication skills, financial and budget activities, and human relations.

Grade: 12             Credit: 3 – full year

RISD: CT7412      PEIMS: 13022915

Prerequisite: Practicum in Hospitality Services (Career Prep I)

Endorsement: B&I, Multi

Advanced course

Work Program – Richardson High School ONLY

This is an advanced course in hospitality that combines classroom instruction with actual business and industry career experiences. Students are employed part time in the operation of restaurant and other food/beverage services, lodging attractions, recreation events and travel related services.

Grade: 9-12 Credit: .5 - one semester

RISD: CT7422 PEIMS: 13024500

               CT7422D (Dual Credit LHHS only)

Prerequisite: None

Endorsement: Public Service

Advanced Course (Dual Credit only)

This course is designed to help students make informed choices that promote wellness in relation to sound nutrition.  Units of study for this course include; principles of cooking, kitchen management skills, meal planning, nutrition, eating disorders, principles of digestion and metabolism, diets, safety, sanitation, food management, and careers in nutrition.