The Culinary arts program holds a distinct attraction from aspiring culinary students as it has a large scope of career options. GD Goenka University, Gurgaon offers Diploma in Culinary Arts and BA (Hons) in Culinary Arts at the undergraduate level. The university takes pride in its impressive collaboration with a top international giant in the field of culinary arts, Le Cordon Bleu. 

About Le Cordon Bleau

Le Cordon Bleu is a Hospitality and Culinary arts school that came into existence in 1895 in Paris by the journalist and publisher of La Cuisinière Cordon Bleu magazine, Marthe Distel. On October 15, 1895, the first cooking demonstration ever to be held on an electric stove was staged at Le Cordon Bleu in an effort to promote the magazine and the launch of the Paris cooking school. Since then, the international reputation of Le Cordon Bleu has grown rapidly. Le Cordon Bleu continues to evolve by combining innovation and creativity with tradition through the establishment of Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in business focusing on the demands of a growing international hospitality industry.

Le Cordon Bleu is considered today the largest network of culinary and hospitality schools in the world with over 30 institutes in 20 countries and 20,000 students of over 100 nationalities trained every year. 

BA (Hons) Culinary Arts

This program enables the students to understand human civilization through their choice of foods and the development of taste from the past to the present. BA in Culinary Arts will groom the students and make them confident professionals who are rooted in values and have excellent cooking skills.

In this 4-year course duration, students lay their foundation as future leaders in the hotel industry, acquire knowledge of nutritional requirements to adapt to new market trends, prepare business plans for their future companies, develop new menu concepts, apply the knowledge and skills acquired both in management and professional practices and to develop a hotel project as a future General Manager or their own business in the future.

After completing graduation in the Culinary Arts, the program paves the path for a sure-shot entry into the culinary & hospitality industry, your own entrepreneurial venture or working overseas and travelling the world.

The program culminates in a bachelor’s degree and international academic certification from Le Cordon Bleu, Paris.

What should you expect to learn in the course:

Joining the culinary arts course at GD Goenka University, students will learn to cook world cuisine, baking and pastry-making. Besides, they will also learn the ‘what’ and ‘how’ and ‘why’ of Food service and the artistic presentation of foods, the Law and ethics of running a food business, entrepreneurship, financial planning, HR and organizational management, sales & marketing, Global trends and digitization of businesses.

Course learning outcomes:

BA in culinary arts requires the students to submit a range of assessment tasks including problem-solving exercises, online tests and examinations, reports, research assignments and group projects.

  • Culinary Operations

These units provide an overview of the operational understanding of food production, food and beverage and customer service. By enrolling in the BA in culinary arts course, Students will be able to perform as a Culinary professional in an organization and develop critical insights into emerging issues and concepts in managing the Kitchens and large food & beverage venues. The entrepreneurial mindset will evolve through industry-based internships and management studies.

  • Accounting Principles and Management

This unit provides an overview of the accounting material needed to support managers in making decisions, combining the necessary amount of financial accounting knowledge to serve as the foundation for utilising managerial accounting techniques. The unit gives background information about the regulatory context of financial accounting, covering the relevance and significance of fundamental accounting conventions and the requirements of financial reporting through financial statements.

  • Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management of organizations is about minimizing disparity and maximizing the probability that business can continue to operate in periods of unavoidable adversity. These units examine the definitions, contexts, and theoretical frameworks relating to human resource and crisis management. The integrated culinary arts course curriculum will train the students to be able to perform in an organization, an industry sector, or a tourism destination, and develop critical insights into emerging issues and concepts in crisis management.

  • Marketing Management

Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders. This unit employs an integrated marketing management framework, studying marketing in its local and global context. The culinary arts course study materials have been designed with a view to applying the principles of marketing management across a wide range of organizational contexts. In particular, emphasis is given to the integration of marketing concepts into coherent marketing and organizational planning.

Diploma in Culinary/ Pastry Arts

  • This program is an intensive program specially designed for people who arepassionate about the art and science of food, cooking and baking and aspire to make a career out of their creativity.
  • The scope of the program is tailored to provide the perfect balance and academic intensity between theoretical and practical learning.
  • Students will garner a strong practical foundation from the get-go of the program, always complemented by a strong grasp of the theory behind the cuisine and pastry techniques students are learning.
  • Through this unique teaching methodology, students will successfully demonstrate anadept culinary skills and in-depth knowledge of operations and cuisine/ pastry arts.