This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the nutrition and food science industries.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 3 years full time
Compulsory Sujects
First year subjects:
- Computer literacy
- General chemistry
- Academic literacy
- Physiology
- Molecular and cell biology
- General physics
- Mathematics
- Biometry
- Information literacy
- Introductory genetics
- Introduction to microbiology
Second year subjects:
- Introduction to proteins and enzymes
- Carbohydrate metabolism
- Introduction to food science and technology
- Growth diversity and control of bacteria
- Nutrition
- Foods
- Lipid and nitrogen metabolism
- Biochemistry in perspective
- Principles of food production and preservation
- Cultural eating patterns
- Nutrition during life cycle
Third year subjects:
- Integrated food science
- Food chemistry
- Foods
- Community nutrition and public health
- Food microbiology
- Food, nutrition and health
- Food compliance and applied nutritional programmes
Careers: nutritionist, food scientist, product developer, quality controller.
Source: www.up.ac.za