Culinary Arts
Culinary Arts at Otago Polytechnic embraces tastes and explores the concept of multi-sensory food design. Culinary Arts is about more than just food; during your studies, you will focus on the creative process, sensory experiences behind the ingredients and develop an understanding of business principles.
Our Culinary Arts programme will give you the technical cooking skills, creative design tools and innovative business practices to become a market leader within the ever-evolving world of food.
With our practical approach to learning, you’ll explore, experiment and experience. For our food truck and test kitchens, you will design meaningful dishes and food products all while studying how food relates to creative thinking and innovative enterprise.
You will graduate into a globally recognised field to become a chef, artisan food producer, food stylist or even to work in product branding. The world will be your oyster.
Culinary Arts qualifications
Food & Hospitality
Studying food design provides you with the technical cooking skills, creative design tools and innovative business practices to become a market leader in the ever-evolving world of food. This programme will provide you with the hands-on experience to learn these skills and gain the competitive edge you need to kickstart your career.Duration
3 Years Full-time
Delivery
On campus, Distance (APL only)
Location
Dunedin
Career potential
Artisan Food Producer, Chef, Culinary Lead, Entrepreneur, Food Stylist, Recipe Developer
Culinary Arts
Jayden Lawrence
I learnt a lot about adapting to consumer-driven trends, which is constantly changing in the industry and how that could then be adapted. The business management/ entrepreneurial aspects of the Bachelor of Culinary Arts definitely help me run the business today.
Discover our Food Design Institute
Get a taste of what it’s like to study this field at Otago Polytechnic:
- See all programmes offered
- Meet your lecturers and find out what makes them leaders in their chosen area
- Hear about our latest news and events
- Learn first-hand what it’s like to study with us from real students and graduates
- Read about our postgraduate research and projects
Cross-credit and fast-track
We can recognise and give academic credit for existing skills and experience.
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