About the course
With the world facing a host of food-safety issues and diet-related health problems, food and nutrition have never been more relevant. This course gets you to the heart of this fast-developing field, opening up a wide range of exciting career paths.
Nowadays food travels as fast as people and the need to supply adequate quantities of safe, healthy and diversified food from production to consumption calls for skilled, knowledgeable and practice-ready food scientists.
This degree gives you the skills and knowledge you need, starting with the core fields of food and nutrition: human anatomy; physiology; microbiology; biochemistry; and the principles of food and nutrition. You then go on to explore specialised areas such as clinical nutrition, immunology, food microbiology and biotechnology. Throughout you develop your ability to relate results to theory, with practical laboratory training in the latest biochemical and molecular experiments.
Why choose this course?
- It has a high overall student satisfaction rating of 90% (NSS 2022), with food sciences scoring higher area ratings for teaching (98%) and learning opportunities (100%)
- Develop your understanding of practical aspects of food production such as food spoilage, safety and quality control, and public health nutrition
- Using our modern laboratories, become skilled in analysis including the microbial and chemical contamination of food, nutrition content, and the effect of nutritional supplements
- Think globally about problems such as the effect on health of over-consumption in developed nations or poor nutrition in economically under-developed countries
- Learn from our expert Life Sciences team, all of whom are actively involved in research
- Gain a range of transferable skills including independent thinking; planning and problem solving; observation and analysis; and communication
- If you need a step-up into higher education, take the course over four years and include a Foundation Year (see below) which guarantees entry to the degree course
- As a graduate, benefit from career opportunities in food and nutrition research and development across a variety of sectors including government, health, academia, pharmaceuticals and the biotechnology industry
Why Study in the School of Life Sciences?
- Specialist laboratories in new £40m STEM building
- 92% satisfaction with Biological Science, NSS 2020
Units
- Cell Biology (BHS012-1) Compulsory
- Chemistry (BHS022-1) Compulsory
- Human Anatomy And Physiology (BHS004-1) Compulsory
- Microbiology And Biochemistry (BHS002-1) Compulsory
- Molecular Genetics (BHS016-1) Compulsory
- Skills In Food And Nutrition Science (BHS020-1) Compulsory
- Biotechnology (BHS031-2) Compulsory
- Food Analytical Techniques (BHS049-2) Compulsory
- Food Microbiology (BHS032-2) Compulsory
- Human Metabolism (BHS023-2) Compulsory
- Human Nutrition (BHS054-2) Compulsory
- Immunology (BHS027-2) Compulsory
- Medical Physiology (BHS026-2) Compulsory
- Skills In Science (BHS022-2) Compulsory
- Applied Plant Science (BHS058-3) Compulsory
- Clinical Nutrition (BHS065-3) Compulsory
- Food And Nutrition Science Research Project (BHS025-3) Compulsory
- Food Processing (BHS055-3) Compulsory
- Food Security And Management (BHS049-3) Compulsory
- Nutraceuticals And Health (BHS062-3) Compulsory
- Public Health Nutrition (BHS042-3) Compulsory
How will this course improve my career prospects?
On completing this course you are likely to progress into one of the following areas:
- Research and development in the food and nutrition, pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries.
- Research and development in government or academic laboratories.
- Scientific writing, publishing or sales.
- Further training, e.g. dietetics, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy.
- Teaching of science.
- Skills developed in information sourcing, data analysis, and presentation also allow graduates to seek employment within a broad range of non-scientific careers, from managerial posts to politics.
- Further study: MSc by research - a practical, research based Master’s degree. MSc - a taught master’s degree in a related area. Within the Department of Life Sciences we run MSc courses in Biotechnology, Pharmacology, Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Management.PhD research in the biosciences.
- Within the Department of Life Sciences we have recent PhD students working in nutrition, food safety, cancer research, autoimmune disease, protein biochemistry, neurobiology, and environmental bioscience and biotechnology.
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