This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the food industry.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 3 years full time
Compulsory Sujects
First year subjects:
- Computer literacy
- General chemistry
- Academic literacy
- General physics
- Molecular and cell biology
- Mathematics
- Biometry
- Plant biology
- Information literacy
- Introduction to microbiology
- Introduction to genetics
- Animal diversity
Second year subjects:
- Introduction to proteins and enzymes
- Carbohydrate metabolism
- Introduction to food science and technology
- Growth diversity and control of bacteria
- Nutrition
- Lipids and nitrogen metabolism
- Biochemistry in perspective
- Introduction to food processing and preservation
- Growth activities and control of fungi
Third year subjects:
- Integrated food science
- Food chemistry
- Food engineering
- Plant food science
- Animal food science
- Food microbiology
Careers: food manager, quality controller, product developer.
Source: www.up.ac.za