COURSE: BSC (AGRIC) IN FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNO...

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

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 4 years full time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• General chemistry


• Academic literacy


• Molecular and cell biology


• General physics


• Mathematics


• Biometry


• Plant biology


• Information literacy


• Introductory genetics


• Introduction to microbiology


• Animal diversity

Second year subjects:

• Introduction to proteins and enzymes


• Carbohydrate metabolism


• Introduction to food science and technology


• Introduction to financial management in agriculture


• Introduction to agricultural production economics


• Growth diversity and control of bacteria


• Nutrition


• Lipid and nitrogen metabolism


• Biochemistry in perspective


• Principles of food production and preservation


• Agricultural economics


• Growth activities and control of fungi

Third year subjects:

• Integrated food science


• Food chemistry


• Food engineering


• Plant food science


• Agricultural economics


• Food microbiology

Fourth year subjects:

• Research methodology


• Animal food technology


• Plant food technologies


• Sensory analysis


• Product development and quantity management


• Advanced food science


• Research project

Careers: product developer, quality controller, food technologist.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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