The department of culinary arts is established in junior college according to development food service industries. The curriculum in this department should be developed to improve job competence. This study aims to assess the need for improving job co...
The department of culinary arts is established in junior college according to development food service industries. The curriculum in this department should be developed to improve job competence. This study aims to assess the need for improving job competency of students majoring in culinary arts. 26 common and 68 culinary job competences are extracted by literature review and interview. These job competences are extracted by literature review and interview. These job competences are used for survey items. A need assessment had been performed to identify the order of job competence. These result are helpful to develop the curriculum in the field of culinary arts. The result revealed that job-related abilities, knowledges, and attitudes for comprter, foreign language, and law are needed to be educated for enhancing common job competence. For culinary job competence, computer ability, carving and decoration, knowledge for food service industries are needed to be learned for future performance.