COURSE: BSC IN NUTRITION AND FOOD SCIENCE

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

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