Sep 30, 2024  
GRCC Curriculum Database (2024-2025 Academic Year) 
    
GRCC Curriculum Database (2024-2025 Academic Year)
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CA 111 - Restaurant Sanitation and Safety


Description
This course covers the principles of sanitation as well as the characteristics and causes of food-borne illness.  Measures to prevent unsanitary conditions that cause food-borne illnesses are stressed. Topics include safe food handling, chemical use and storage, and management training tools and the study of the Michigan Food Law. Course completion involves the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation’s ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification Examination.
Credit Hours: 2
Contact Hours: 2
School: School of Business & Industry
Department: Culinary Arts (SICE)
Discipline: CA
Last Revision Date Effective: 2017-03-13 21:13:58
Course Review & Revision Year: 2021-2022
Course Type:
Program Requirement- Offering designed to meet the learning needs of students in a specific GRCC program.
Course Format:
Lecture - 1:1

General Education Requirement: None
General Education Learner Outcomes (GELO):
NA
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Identify the causes of foodborne illness.

2. Identify the role of foods, people, personal hygiene, and facilities in the problem of foodborne illness, food handling, and preparation.

3. Identify the common foodborne diseases and their symptoms, how to control these illnesses, how food becomes contaminated and the chemical and physical hazards to foods.

4. Understand the “Active Managerial Control” and the “Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)” food safety management systems and how to implement them to control food safety hazards and risk factors.

5. Explain the role of micro-organisms, viruses, molds and yeasts in foodborne disease and the relationship between HACCP and micro-organisms.

6. Recognize the role of management in food protection, equipment, and methods to safeguard foods and the health of the employee.

7. Explain the management of food stocks and methods of storing potentially hazardous foods, the time-temperature principle of food protection, identify the critical control points in preparation, serving, cooling and proper reheating and serving, cross contamination conditions, and identify temperatures for cooking, hot holding, and reheating.

8. Develop a crisis management plan and evaluate such a plan.

9. Discuss pest control management and how to exclude pests.

10. Explain cleaning and sanitizing procedures, including proper use of chemicals and necessary precautions.

11. Explain the desirable physical characteristics for foodservice establishments [with equipment layout and floor plan review], including storage areas, plumbing, ventilation, and garbage and waste disposal.

12. Create, organize, and apply cleaning and sanitizing schedules, including chemical products and tools to be used.

13. Describe state and local sanitation regulations and standards of sanitation.

14. Develop and plan an employee sanitation training program.

15. Clearly and completely state and describe a problem/issue. 

16. Identify the best solution to a problem or issue.


Approved for Online Delivery?: No
Course Outline:
I. Chapter 1: Providing Safe Foods

II. Chapter 2: The Microworld

III. Chapter 3: Contamination, Food Allergies, and Foodborne Illnesses

IV. Chapter 4: The Safe Food Handler

V. Chapter 5: Intro to the Flow of Food

VI. Chapter 6: Purchasing and Receiving Safe Foods

VII. Chapter 7: Keeping Food Safe in Storage

VIII. Chapter 8: Protecting Foods During Preparation

IX. Chapter 9: Protecting Food During Service

X. Chapter 10: Principles of a HACCP System

XI. Chapter 11: Sanitary Facilities and Equipment

XII. Chapter 12: Cleaning and Sanitizing

XIII. Chapter 13: Integrated Pest Management

XIV. Chapter 14: Food Safety Regulation and Standards

XV. Chapter 15: Employee Food Safety Training


Mandatory CLO Competency Assessment Measures:
None
Name of Industry Recognize Credentials: None
Instructional Strategies:
Direct lecture: 60-90%

AV/Slides/DVD: 0-10%

Class activities: 20-30%


Mandatory Course Components:
None
Academic Program Prerequisite: None
Prerequisites/Other Requirements: None
English Prerequisite(s): None
Math Prerequisite(s): None
Course Corerequisite(s): None
Course-Specific Placement Test: None
Course Aligned with IRW: IRW 98, IRW 99
Consent to Enroll in Course: No Department Consent Required
Total Lecture Hours Per Week: 2
Faculty Credential Requirements:
Professionally qualified through work experience in field (Perkins Act or Other) (list below), Master’s Degree (GRCC general requirement)
Faculty Credential Requirement Details: A Bachelor degree in Culinary Arts (Master of Arts preferred) or related credential. A minimum of 2 years of related work experience (4,000 hours) is required to satisfy Perkin’s Vocational Act requirements.

The Instructor must meet dual role status as Certified ServSafe® Instructor for the ServSafe Food Safety Manager training and as a Registered ServSafe Proctor.
General Room Request: None
Maximum Course Enrollment: 24
Equivalent Courses: None
Dual Enrollment Allowed?: Yes
Number of Times Course can be taken for credit: 1
Programs Where This Courses is a Requirement:
Baking and Pastry Arts Certificate, Culinary Arts, A.A.A.S., Culinary Arts Certificate, Personal Chef Certificate, Pre-Hospitality Management (Specialized Management), A.A. (Ferris State University)
People Soft Course ID Number: 100590
Course CIP Code: 12.9999
High School Articulation Agreements exist?: Yes
If yes, with which high schools?: Allegan County High School, Careerline Tech Center, Kent Career Technical Center
Non-Credit GRCC Agreement exist?: No
If yes, with which Departments?: NA
Corporate Articulation Agreement exist?: No
If yes, with which Companies?: NA



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