Food Science Co-Major - 2010
Co-Major
Description
The Food Science Co-Major and Minor are specialised offerings selected from the Swinburne Bachelor of Health Science (Public and Environmental Health) program. Food Science is a multidisciplinary area concerned with ensuring the safety and quality of our food supply. Areas of key importance include the application of chemistry, microbiology and risk management to the handling, processing and packaging of foods from the farm to the consumer's plate. Study areas include law (public and environmental health), microbiology, occupational health and safety, food science, food safety, communicable disease control and administration and management.
The Food Science Co-Major is only available to students enrolled in the Biosciences, Biotechnology, Chemistry or Public Health Professional Majors, or where prerequisite requirements have been meet. The Food Science Minor is available to students enrolled in other programs.
Career opportunities
Career opportunities are enormously diverse: in the community, public and private sector, organisations seek graduates with superior skills in addressing complex, real-world challenges. Students who combine the food science co-major or minor with their main professional major will have the added capacity to apply their major knowledge to the food sector, particularly in quality assurance positions in the manufacturing and retail areas.
Structure
A Co-Major is a sequence of study focused on a specific discipline while assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the student. It is usually self-contained, in that it includes any requisite foundation studies. Where a student has studied a Co-Major they are not normally eligible to apply to graduate with the associated tagged degree outcome. Co-Majors contain up to one elective choice and are made up of 8 units (100cps).
Units
Co-Major
HES2636 Microbes in the Environment
HES2700 Food Science
HES2725 Food Safety Principle and Practice 1
HES2735 Communicable Disease Control
HES4705 Research Project
HES4725 Occupational Health and Safety
HBSH400 Administration and Management #
HES4730 Food Safety Principle and Practice 2
HES2636 Microbes in the Environment
HES2700 Food Science
HES2725 Food Safety Principle and Practice 1
HES2735 Communicable Disease Control
HES4705 Research Project
HES4725 Occupational Health and Safety
HBSH400 Administration and Management #
HES4730 Food Safety Principle and Practice 2
The Food Science Co-Major is only available to students enrolled in the following Professional Majors: Biosciences, Biotechnology, Chemistry or Public Health, or where prerequisite requirements have been meet.
# HBSH400 may be replaced with HAC113 Professional Communication Practice for students not enrolled in the Public Health Professional Major and whom have not completed HAC113 in their Major.
Further information
Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Tel: +61 3 9214 8859
Fax: +61 3 9214 5921
Email: lssinfo@swin.edu.au
Website: www.swinburne.edu.au/lss/
Tel: +61 3 9214 8859
Fax: +61 3 9214 5921
Email: lssinfo@swin.edu.au
Website: www.swinburne.edu.au/lss/
