Food Science & Nutrition

BSc (Hons)

Our all-new BSc (Hons) Food Science and Nutrition degree is an exciting development that gives you the opportunity to shape your degree to provide a strong foundation for your chosen career.

You decide what your degree will look like as you understand more about the subject areas. Your choices will also reflect how your own interests evolve, and how your career goals are most effectively achieved.

Access and use of our excellent on-site facilities including a consumer sensory suite, four pilot sized plants, a development kitchen and a consumer research kitchen and close links between the course and the ZERO2FIVE Food Industry Centre ensures a continuous dialogue with industry and enhances your studies with us.

BSc Food Science and Nutrition (Human Nutrition) pathway accredited by The Association for Nutrition, provides a programme of study that enables you to develop the necessary skills and knowledge to support future practice as a Registered Nutritionist. Students interested in working as a freelance nutritionist or further study to become an NHS dietitian would choose modules in health psychology and nutritional biochemistry and physiology.

BSc Food Science and Nutrition (Quality, Safety and Innovation) pathway accredited by The Institute of Food Science and Technology , provides a programme of study that enables you to develop the necessary skills and knowledge to support technical aspects of organisations operating in the global food industry sector. Maximum student industrial exposure is assured by the inclusion of industrial visits and industrial work experience.

Typical modules

Both pathways follow a common first year of study, after which you select either of the named pathways. The shared first year enables you to gain key skills for working within a range of public and private sector organisations in a variety of roles. Typical modules in years two may include:

• Assessing and Improving Population Health

• Nutritional Biochemistry and Physiology

• Food Quality, Composition and Labelling

• Microbiological Safety and Chemical Analysis of Food

Your future

• A career in the food industry will put you in the middle of the largest and most important economic activity in the world, our students have gone on to roles including; Manufacturing and retailing, Food microbiology, NHS registered Dieticians, Sports Nutritionists and more.

• This degree will also provide you with a strong foundation for further study at Masters or PhD level following graduation.

Place of study: Llandaff Campus

Course length: 3-4 years fulltime, dependent upon taking the foundation year (see page 126)

Entry requirements: Typical offer: 96-112 UCAS Points