BSc (Honours) Food and Nutrition (top up)

UCAS code

DB64

Attendance

Full-time

One year full-time

At a glance

About this course

This course is based on the final year of our BSc (Honours) Food and Nutrition. It allows you to top up your current qualifications to honours degree level.

You can apply for this course if you have a • higher national diploma • foundation degree • equivalent qualification in a relevant subject.

This course has a strong food industry focus and builds your understanding of the practical side of • food processing and development • quality management • applied nutrition. You also gain some management and marketing skills.

With a strong practical focus, you work on live projects and with industrial food processing equipment that reflects key industrial processes. These include an ice cream maker and a retort (an industrial pressure cooker) used to make heat sterilised products.

You take part in • seminars • workshops • projects • laboratory sessions in our modern facilities at City Campus.

Flexibility in your career choice is a key feature to this degree. By focusing on a range of areas, from food product development to applied nutrition, it prepares you for a broad range of careers in the food industry and related fields.

Associated careers

You can find a range of highly paid careers in areas such as • food product development • food quality • food production • food and nutrition advice • food styling and journalism • sensory analysis • teaching food technology.

Our graduates work in organisations such as • Unilever • Kraft • Marks & Spencer • Samworth Brothers • Sainsbury’s.

You can also continue your studies on one of our postgraduate courses, which include
• PGCE Secondary Design and Technology (Food Technology)
• MSc Nutrition with Public Health Management

Course content

Modules

• contemporary issues in food technology • food innovation • consumer perceptions of food • food quality management • issues in food and nutrition • project

Assessment

• coursework • examinations

Entry requirements

2014 entry requirements

Normally one from
• a HND or foundation degree in a relevant subject, with an overall merit profile from year two modules
• equivalent qualification in a relevant subject

If English is not your first language you will need an IELTS score of 6.0 or above, with a minimum score of 5.5 in each skill.

2013 entry requirements

Normally one from
• a HND or foundation degree in a relevant subject, with an overall merit profile from year two modules
• equivalent qualification in a relevant subject

If English is not your first language you will need an IELTS score of 6.0 or above, with a minimum score of 5.5 in each skill.

Fees

International students

2013/14 academic year

Typically £11,880 a year

2014/15 academic year

Typically £11,880 a year

How to apply

You apply for this course through UCAS.

Contact details

For more information or to check the progress of your application phone +44 (0)114 225 5555, fax +44 (0)114 225 2167, e-mail admissions@shu.ac.uk