Dual Credit High School Academy

Offers hands-on learning opportunities to practice and apply hospitality tasks required to seek entry-level employment. Students will be guided in applying and demonstrating positive interpersonal skills and professional customer service skills while focusing on maintaining a safe work environment, safe food facilities, and positive worker habits. Hospitality Applications enhance students' knowledge through the application of tasks and demonstration of skills through classroom learning and lab experiences.

Safety and Sanitation Fundamentals (1 Credit)

Helps students develop a foundation for detecting safety hazards and bringing awareness to best practices to maintain safe facilities. Students will explore safe working habits targeting areas such as principles of safe lifting, proper use of cleaners and chemicals, personal hygiene and health, proper storage and handling of foods, as well as cleaning and sanitizing.

Guest Relations Fundamentals (1 Credit)

Introduces students to the importance of working with others in a constructive and cooperative working relationship. Students will explore ways to better handle challenging customers and be provided experiences to recognize positive interpersonal skills and professional customer service.

Hospitality Internship (1 Credit)

Students will apply course competencies in employment opportunities at WITC and community-based placements. The course competencies include: apply essential hospitality tasks, demonstrate interpersonal skills, demonstrate customer service skills, apply safe food, facilities, and worker habits, apply constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and apply strategies to better handle challenging customers. 

Working Smart (1 Credit)

In collaboration with student internship to address employability skills in a natural, work-based learning environment. Students will continue the development and enhancement of job-seeking skills, while practicing job retention skills such as problem-solving, time management, accountability, self-awareness and working relationships.