This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the food and retailing industries.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 4 years full time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Marketing management


• Computer literacy


• Economics


• Academic literacy


• Financial accounting


• Business management


• Statistics


• Food supply and quantity control


• Information literacy


• Consumer behaviour and service market


• Informatics

Second year subjects:

• Marketing management


• Design principles


• Business management


• Foods


• General microbiology


• Cultural eating patterns


• Nutrition

Third year subjects:

• Marketing management


• Nutrition


• Foods


• Labour relations


• Nutrition during life cycle

Fourth year subjects:

• Sensory analysis


• Food service management


• Foods


• Visual merchandising of foods


• Food research project

Careers: food store manager, shopping mall manager.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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