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