Culinary Sciences Listed Among Top Unusual Majors List

Is a culinary degree really that strange? We don't think so, but some of its aspects must seem strange to some people to make the Wall Street Journal's list of eleven unusual college majors. Some of the programs listed were true doozies by any count, such as the major checking in at the numper one spot:

1. Bowling Industry Management

Being a pin monkey may have been Homer Simpson's dream, but you can make it your reality if you attend Vincennes University. The Indiana school offers the country's only program in Bowling Industry Management and Technology, where students learn topics like pinsetter mechanics and lane care. The program's site proudly touts its equipment, including a number of pinsetters and a Vacu-Jig drill machine.

Interesting! Other courses range from the practical (Turf and Golf Course Management) to the innovative (culinary arts degree buddy EcoGastronomy) to the arcane (Blacksmithing). But among them? One that, when you think about it, doesn't seem so strange at all.

10. Bakery Science

Smelling like fresh-baked bread can't be a bad way to meet people at college, so maybe bakery science is a brilliant choice of major. Modern commercial baking relies pretty heavily on science to achieve consistency and efficiency, and this major teaches prospective bakers and managers the cereal science, microbiology, and milling expertise they'll need to run a successful bakery. You can pick up a bakery science degree at Kansas State, Hesston College, and other schools.

Unusual? More like delicious! While ecogastronomy is certainly a new and fascinating degree path, baking has been around (in and out of classrooms) for centuries, and the art of pastry has always been more of a science. They've got one thing right, though -- it just might be a brilliant choice of major, not to mention of career.

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