Learning in the Field

Externship: Real, Life Experience

One of the real highlights of your CIA education is your externship. First you choose a site from any of the more than 1,200 leading foodservice establishments around the world that offer a variety of amazing settings—world-famous restaurants, exotic resorts, glamorous magazines or television networks, and more. Then you go sharpen your skills and make valuable industry contacts in a dynamic real-world environment.

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Bachelor's Degree Concentrations

Within the bachelor’s degree management programs, the CIA offers two study concentrations that give you special expertise in Advanced Wine, Beverage, and Hospitality or in Farm-to-Table Cooking, both important industry trends. These concentrations involve a full semester of study at the college’s California campus in the heart of the Napa Valley, where they take advantage of the region’s leadership in American wines and agriculture. With these concentrations, students can shape their bachelor’s degree studies even more for their career interests.
  

Check out the Bachelor's Degree Concentrations:

• Advanced Wine, Beverage, and Hospitality
• American Food Studies: Farm-to-Table Cooking

Extraordinary Travel Experiences

As a bachelor’s degree management student, you can take everything you’ve learned and see how it applies “out there” during an exciting elective course and travel program. In the Food, Wine, and (Agri)culture course, you’ll be immersed in a major culinary region of the world, choosing one of these many great destinations:

• California or the Pacific Northwest, where you’ll visit wineries and farms, meat and fish purveyors, coffee roasters, chocolatiers, and restaurants.
• China, Italy, France, or Spain, where you’ll discover authentic, regional ingredient suppliers and restaurants for these popular cuisines.

Learn more about these once-in-a-lifetime adventures >