Academic Programs
Cool Courses
Courses That Will Change You
If there鈥檚 one thing you should know going into these and many other courses at CIA, it鈥檚 this: expect the unexpected. Your classes will feed your passion…challenge you…and maybe even surprise you. They鈥檒l introduce you to a world of food you鈥檝e never seen before, and make you think about it in a whole different way. Take a look at some of these cool, wow-factor courses as only 近距离内射合集can deliver them. Whichever program you choose, you鈥檒l always find something new and exciting along the way…
Associate in Baking and Pastry Arts
Presto Change-o!
Your challenge in Advanced Baking Principles class? Transform traditional recipes for breads, muffins, desserts, and other baked goods into new versions that accommodate special diets such as vegan, gluten-free, no-sugar-added, and dairy-free鈥攁nd are just as delicious as the original!
If You Bake It, They Will Come
Put everything you鈥檝e learned about baking and pastry and back-of-the-house operations into practice in the college鈥檚 super-popular Apple Pie Bakery Caf茅. In Caf茅 Operations class, you鈥檒l create delicious breads, pastries, and savory items for hungry, appreciative customers.
The Art and Craft of Cakes
Let your creativity run wild! In Confectionery Art and Special Occasion Cakes class, you鈥檒l design, bake, and decorate three-tiered wedding cakes; learn to work with ganache, gum paste, and pastillage; and pour, blow, and pull sugar (kinda like blowing glass鈥攙ery cool!).
Associate in Culinary Arts
Turn Up the Volume
Here鈥檚 where the action gets fast and furious! Prepare breakfast, lunch, and dinner at The Egg for large numbers of hungry 近距离内射合集students in Non-Commercial Foodservice and High-Volume Production. Many of the dishes you create will focus on sustainable, plant-forward principles (how about waffles made with spent grains from CIA鈥檚 brewery?).
What鈥檚 on the Menu? That鈥檚 Up to You!
Design and create an actual menu that you would offer a guest in your hypothetical restaurant. You鈥檒l consider factors like demographics, your restaurant鈥檚 concept, the local economy, cost control, and pricing, then present your menu and analysis results to the class. It all happens in Principles of Menus and Managing Profitability in Foodservice Operations.
Fish Out of Water
Freshwater and saltwater fish, shellfish, crustaceans鈥ou鈥檒l learn how to choose, store, and prep them all in Seafood Identification and Fabrication. Even better? Knowing that 95% of the proteins you鈥檒l be working with meet Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch guidelines for being sustainably sourced.
Bachelor鈥檚 in Applied Food Studies
Get Your Hands Dirty!
Dig in at the teaching garden, wield a hammer tapping maple trees, and discover the relationship between humans and nature. In Ecology of Food you鈥檒l explore questions related to our food supply like how and where food is grown, and what is involved in processing and transporting that food.
A Blast from the Past
History is so cool, especially when you see what an important part food played in it! In Food History, you鈥檒l get the chance to curate an on-campus food-focused museum exhibit, recreate and reinterpret recipes from a 14th century cookbook, and discover how food opens a window into understanding societies, cultures, and the world.
What鈥檚 the Buzz?
Build, maintain, and harvest honey from an on-campus apiary. Create a seed library to preserve and propagate heirloom varieties of produce. Build a Student Garden at a local elementary school. All of these are experiential research projects developed in the Project in Applied Food Studies class. Got a great idea? Make it so!
Bachelor鈥檚 in Culinary Science
The Next Big Idea is Yours
In Culinary Research and Development, you鈥檒l work in teams to create and develop a product to present to the faculty and industry guests. Recent Cul Sci students designed meal kits (think: Blue Apron), bringing them from concept, product development, and consumer testing to packaging, marketing, and distribution.
Power Up Your Cooking
Fun with hydrocolloids (xanthan gum, gellan gum, and other food substances that form gels) and more! That鈥檚 what awaits you in the Ingredient Functionality class. Through cool experiments鈥攍ike making a popping mango gel with sodium alginate and calcium lactate in a fruit pur茅e鈥攜ou鈥檒l begin to understand the power of your ingredients.
Equipped for Success
Ready for a (food development) challenge? The Modern and Industrial Cooking Tools, Techniques, and Ingredients course has lots of them! Learn to think outside the box as you bring your food R&D knowledge and cooking skills together in hands-on projects like taking a classic Escoffier recipe and modernizing it for mass production.
Bachelor鈥檚 in Food Business Leadership鈥擮nline
近距离内射合集associate degree graduates only
Discover What It Takes to Lead and Succeed
Develop your leadership skills to help grow your career with the Food Business Leadership course. Learn to lead from your strengths by assessing your personal style. You鈥檒l study major theories and models of leadership, then put them into practice by applying your own methods in a case study format.
Learn How to Keep Things Running Smoothly
How do you maximize profits and ensure guest satisfaction? Find out in Advanced Food Service Operations, where you鈥檒l examine how to consistently achieve these through a deep understanding of menu development, staffing, production flow and timing, purchasing, and controlling costs for profitability.
Get Real with an Actual Food Company
In the capstone course Project in Food Business Leadership, you鈥檒l conduct extensive research and analysis of an existing business鈥攆rom company culture and internal systems to business strategies and competitors鈥攖hen develop recommendations and a plan to address problems or opportunities within that organization.
Bachelor鈥檚 in Food Business Management
Crafting Your Future
Here鈥檚 your chance to learn about the ingredients, equipment, and techniques of making craft brews in our own on-campus brewery. The beers you鈥檒l make in Art and Science of Brewing will be served in CIA鈥檚 public restaurants. Two of our student-made brews even earned gold medals in the New York State Craft Beer Competition, and our brewery was named the 2019 Brewery of the Year!
The Big Event
Put everything you鈥檝e learned at 近距离内射合集into designing and executing a themed dining event that benefits scholarships and community organizations. You and your Foodservice Management classmates will divide up into marketing, finance, culinary, baking and pastry, and service teams to deliver an amazing customer experience.
Sell Your Restaurant Concept
Market research, segmentation, consumer behavior…the principles you鈥檒l learn in Marketing Principals come together as you create a restaurant concept. From menu and pricing to interior design and marketing (and a simulated budget of $10K), you鈥檒l sell your vision to your class and choose a winner.
Bachelor鈥檚 in Hospitality Management
Trends: Are You Ready for the Future?
What鈥檚 just a fad and what鈥檚 a trend with staying power? Together in Contemporary Topics in Food and Beverage, we鈥檒l examine issues like sustainability, food sourcing, molecular gastronomy, food allergies, nutrition, and culinary science. And we鈥檒l talk about each one鈥檚 importance to the many different segments of the hospitality industry.
This is What it Takes to Be a Leader
Equality, liberty, integrity…what do these concepts have to do with leadership in the hospitality world? Everything. In Justice, Ethical Leadership, and Truth, you鈥檒l discover how principles as varied as empathy and justice will inform and shape your ability to be an ethical decision-maker and effective people manager.
Tech-Savvy Hospitality
Technology is just as vital to the hospitality business as it is to your everyday life. In Managing Technology in the Hospitality Industry, you鈥檒l learn how to choose, implement, and manage tech solutions for a variety of settings. And you鈥檒l hear about up-and-coming technologies and evaluate their potential for hospitality.
Accelerated Culinary Arts Certificate Program
You Can Play with Food!
Think of Contemporary Topics in Culinary Arts as your culinary sandbox. Through an experimental kitchen approach, you鈥檒l explore taste and flavor; plant- and protein-based diets; food and wine pairing; healthy cooking techniques; and the flavors of the global kitchen.
Olives, Wheat, Garlic, and Wine
California cuisine is known for its Mediterranean influence, so it makes perfect sense to dive deep into the ingredients and cooking methods of Spain, France, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia, Greece, and Egypt. In Cuisines and Cultures of the Mediterranean, you鈥檒l discover how each country鈥檚 food is shaped by geography, history, and culture.
Get Fired Up
鈥淥rder, fire, pickup!鈥 In Introduction to 脿 la Carte Cooking, you鈥檒l experience the energy of the production kitchen as you prepare multi-course menus for fellow students. And you鈥檒l do it all using the techniques you learned in Culinary Fundamentals and by practicing batch cooking and 脿 la carte-style service.
Chat With a Student
Are you curious about what it鈥檚 really like to attend CIA? We鈥檝e got you covered. Our students are ready to answer the questions you haven鈥檛 asked anyone else, share their own personal experiences, and give you genuine advice鈥攂ecause they鈥檝e gone through it, too.