Mission and Vision

PURPOSE

The purpose of Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts is to train chef candidates who will be the ambassadors of the food culture of our country; use cooking techniques within the framework of food safety rules and follow the changes and innovations in gastronomy and its interaction areas as well as specializing in traditional cuisines.

The mission of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Program is to train high qualified chefs, academicians and managers who have contemporary values in the food and beverage sector, who are equipped with practical and theoretical knowledge and skills at international standards and are capable of serving as senior managers.

As a result, with international cooperation, we set out with the vision of training gastronomy graduates who are disciplined, qualified, and equipped with top talents in all countries. Our aim is to provide quality education at an international level and be recognized as a leading educational institution in this field.

MISSION

Our mission as the Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts:

• has practical and technical abilities for the kitchen,
• has values and awareness required to be kitchen professional,
• has embraced gastronomy and kitchen culture,
• with the support of our Sectoral Board of Advisors students will obtain enough experience for the sector,
• As a pioneer university with our practice-based curriculum, living by assimilating personal and culinary discipline,
• Be able to make accurate and quick decisions under stress and/or despite time or operational pressures
• In addition to culinary education, they have the knowledge and skills of business, finance, culture, and hotel management-based theoretical fields,
• will be able to meet the pilot requirements of industry not only in Turkey but also in foreign countries,
• has a scientific basis of skepticism, inquisitive curiosity, and research impulses,
• able to increase the students’ predisposition to teamwork,
• to train students who can develop leadership qualities.

VISION

The vision of our department is to be the leading Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Department by following national and international developments in the field of Gastronomy and providing the integration of applied and theoretical education with sectoral collaborations.