Culinary Academy
Begin Your Culinary Career Now
Get a jump on your Culinary Arts training and education before your graduate, for free! Earn up to 14 college credits in this Career Academy. Study baking, safety and sanitation, food prep, and more. You will leave high school with two internships under your belt, too. After you graduate, keep working toward your EICC Culinary Arts Certificate, Diploma, or AAS degree.
Clinton or Muscatine Community College
Start your Culinary training during high school
- HCM:100 Sanitation and Safety (ServSafe Certificate), 2 credits
- HCM:154 Basic Food Prep, 2 credits
- HCM:180 Food Fundamentals, 2 credits
- HCM:932 Internship, 1 credits
- HCM:116 Fundamentals of Baking, 3 credits
- HCM:265 Mathematics for Hospitality, 3 credits
- HCM:932 Internship, 1 credit
Finish your degree after high school
- CSC:107 Computer Literacy, 3 credits
- Award: Culinary Arts Certificate (16 credits)
- HCM:932 Internship, 3 credits
- HCM:155 Garde Manger, 3 credits
- HCM:156 Intermediate Food Prep, 3 credits
- HCM:233 Menu Planning and Nutrition, 3 credits
- HCM:530 Culinary Capstone, 1 credit
- HCM:932 Internship, 3 credits
- SPC:112 Public Speaking, 3 credits
Award: Culinary Arts Diploma (32 credits)
- HCM:160 Advanced Food Preparation, 3 credits
- HCM:199 Batch Cooking, 2 credits
- HCM:200 Dining Service, 2 credits
- HCM:301 Beverage Control, 3 credits
- HCM:353 Menu and Profit Engineering, 3 credits
- HCM:212 Industry Management, 3 credits
- HCM:932 Internship, 2 credits
- HUM:105 Working in America, 3 credits
- MKT:181 Customer Service Strategies, 2 credits
- PSY:213 Industrial Psychology OR SOC:110 Intro to Sociology, 3 credits
Award: Culinary Arts AAS degree (62 credits)
Scott Community College
Start your Culinary training during high school at Davenport Central
- CSC:107 Computer Literacy, 3 credits
- HCM:116 Fundamentals of Baking, 3 credits
- HCM:100 Sanitation and Safety (ServSafe Certificate), 2 credits
- HCM:265 Mathematics for Hospitality, 3 credits
- HCM:180 Food Fundamentals, 2 credits
- HCM:154 Basic Food Prep, 2 credits
- HCM:932 Internship, 1 credit
Award: Culinary Arts Certificate, 16 credits
Start your Culinary training during high school at Pleasant Valley
- CSC:107 Computer Literacy, 3 credits
- HCM:100 Sanitation and Safety (ServSafe Certificate), 2 credits
- HCM:154 Basic Food Prep, 2 credits
- HCM:180 Food Fundamentals, 2 credits
- HCM:116 Fundamentals of Baking, 3 credits
- HCM:265 Mathematics for Hospitality, 3 credits
- HCM:932 Internship, 1 credit
Award: Culinary Arts Certificate, 16 credits
Finish your degree after high school
- HCM:932 Internship, 3 credits
- HCM:155 Garde Manger, 3 credits
- HCM:156 Intermediate Food Prep, 3 credits
- HCM:233 Menu Planning and Nutrition, 3 credits
- HCM:530 Culinary Capstone, 1 credit
- HCM:932 Internship, 3 credits
- SPC:112 Public Speaking, 3 credits
Award: Culinary Arts Diploma (32 credits)
- HCM:160 Advanced Food Preparation, 3 credits
- HCM:199 Batch Cooking, 2 credits
- HCM:200 Dining Service, 2 credits
- HCM:301 Beverage Control, 3 credits
- HCM:353 Menu and Profit Engineering, 3 credits
- HCM:212 Industry Management, 3 credits
- HCM:932 Internship, 2 credits
- HUM:105 Working in America, 3 credits
- MKT:181 Customer Service Strategies, 2 credits
- PSY:213 Industrial Psychology OR SOC:110 Intro to Sociology, 3 credits
Award: Culinary Arts AAS degree (62 credits)
Your Career in Culinary Arts
Do more than cook and bake at home. Become a chef and start feeding the world. With your EICC training, you can have a fast-paced and creative career. Work in restaurants, schools, hotels, cafeterias – wherever food is made!

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Complete your education in two years. Qualify for better jobs. Earn a higher salary. Enjoy a better quality of life. The benefits of an associate's degree are impressive and wide-ranging.
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Contact our High School Team

Liz Bloom
ebloom@eicc.edu
563-336-5210
Advises High School Concurrent: Camanche and Northeast

Holly Hansen
hmhansen@eicc.edu
563-441-4004
Advises High School Concurrent: Cal-Wheat and DeWitt Central

Lorene McLaughlin
ltmclaughlin@eicc.edu
563-441-4127
Advises High School Concurrent: Bellevue and Maquoketa

Joe Shovlain
jshovlain@eicc.edu
563-244-7014
Office 100B
Advises High School Concurrent: Clinton, Career Academies

Anabelia Calderon-Flores
acalderon-flores@eicc.edu
563-288-6035
Advises High School Concurrent: Durant and Muscatine

Theresa Putnam Genz
tputnamgenz@eicc.edu
563-288-6047
Advises High School Concurrent: Columbus Junction and Louisa-Muscatine

Molly Gleason
mmgleason@eicc.edu
563-336-5241
Advises High School Concurrent: Assumption and Davenport North

Lori Perez
ljperez@eicc.edu
563-441-4057
Advises High School Concurrent: Davenport Central, Davenport West, and North
Scott

Jill Spengler
jmspengler@eicc.edu
563-441-4137
Advises High School Concurrent: Bettendorf and Pleasant Valley
Culinary Academy: Locations

Clinton Career Advancement Center
1210 11th Ave. S.
Clinton, IA 52732
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