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Location(s): YTI Career Institute - Lancaster

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YTI Career Institute - Lancaster offers a diploma program in Pastry Arts. The program focuses on instruction in basic skills and advanced techniques, which are critical to bake shop operations. Measurements, sanitation, fundamental baking techniques, bake shop purchasing and pricing, and the externship experience give students the foundation for entry-level positions as bakers, pastry cooks, and assistant pastry chefs in a wide variety of food service operations.

Program Requirements

Total Quarter Credits: 67

Courses are delivered in a hybrid format, except “*” indicates course is fully online, and “**” indicates course is fully on-ground.

Length of Program: Twelve (12) months, consisting of five (5) ten-week quarters.

The Pastry Arts program is offered in a Hybrid instructional delivery format, with didactic instruction occurring online, hands-on labs occurring on campus and final term Externship occurring off campus. Online instruction is primarily asynchronous, with assignments and homework accessible 24 hours a day/seven days per week through the Learning Management System (LMS). Labs are scheduled 2-4 times per week. Students will need to reserve approximately 25-30 hours per week for educational activities and study.

Maximum class size for this program is fifty (50) students for on-line lecture and eighteen (18) students in lab.