Bachelor of Culinary Arts
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Course information
Are you an experienced leader in the food industry?
Our Otago Polytechnic Food Design Institute offers this one year, distance programme which is ideal for those with experience in the food industry who want their skills formally recognised.
Using our Assessment of Prior Learning (APL) process, we measure your existing knowledge against the Bachelor of Culinary Arts and give you academic credit towards this degree. This process is especially valuable for those who are currently employed as you don't have to leave your job to achieve this qualification.
Prior experience
Senior culinary role in which you have been responsible for key decision making.
Key decision making can include;
- Designing recipes or menus
- Designing kitchen layout and systems for production
- Implementing kitchen management processes
- Designing and implementing culinary education/training resources
- Designing food for media purposes
- Designing business plan for a culinary context
How Assessment of Prior Learning (APL) works
Through our Assessment of Prior Learning (APL) process we can measure your existing knowledge and skills against the Bachelor of Culinary Arts graduate profile and give you academic credit towards this degree. Where there are gaps in your learning, we can design project work for you for you to complete your learning. While the degree normally takes 3 years to complete on campus, through APL and work integrated learning you can stay in work, continue to earn, and complete your degree faster.
Multi-year enrolments
From 1 January 2023, Otago Polytechnic joins Te Pūkenga, a new national network of vocational and applied education in Aotearoa New Zealand. You will learn in the same way, in the same place, and with the same people. The great news is that this enables us to share skills and knowledge across a network of passionate education providers, to better help you succeed. All learners who start multi-year programmes of study prior to this change, continuing into 2023 and beyond, will graduate with a dual-institution qualification, representing both Otago Polytechnic and Te Pūkenga.
Alistair Bolland
Bachelor of Culinary Arts
“I loved that I could get a degree without having to put my life on hold for three years.”
