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