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Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Diploma in Consumer Science in Food and Nutrition Extended Programme

The Diploma in Consumer Science in Food and Nutrition Extended Programme in Health Professions is offered by Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

Program Length: 4 YEARS.

Diploma in Consumer Science in Food and Nutrition Extended Programme offered by the Cape Peninsula University of Technology at the Faculty of Applied Sciences

The purpose of the Diploma in Consumer Science: Food and Nutrition is to deliver graduates who would be able to combine science-based food and nutrition knowledge and culinary skills in fresh convenience food production, food retail and food service with the aim of promoting consumer well-being.

Access to healthy and safe food is high on the national agenda. This has necessitated the need for qualified graduates with a sound knowledge of both food and nutrition. This course is unique in its integration of the study fields of food and nutrition and that theoretical learning is complemented by the development of culinary skills. Consumers are also becoming more aware of the relationship between lifestyle choices and health and this has led to a demand for healthy, fresh convenience food products.

Career Opportunities

A wide choice of career destinations in the fresh convenience food production industry and in food retail and food service is offered. Former students are working in test kitchens: formulating and developing recipes for food production, training employees in retail and food production companies, implementing quality control systems, advising consumers on food and nutrition products, managing the production of convenience food products, supervising food retail departments and managing food service facilities. Students also have the background to become entrepreneurs as the knowledge and skills needed to start an own business is developed by combining business subjects with food and nutrition knowledge and culinary skills.

Curriculum

FIRST YEAR (EXTENDED PROGRAMME)
Food Communication
Food Production and Service Operations 1
Applied Sciences: Introduction

FIRST YEAR
Consumer Retailing
Food: Science and Practice 1
Nutrition 1

SECOND YEAR
Food: Science and Practice 2
Food Microbiology and Quality Control
Food Production and Service Operations 2
Nutrition 2

THIRD YEAR
Applied Food and Nutrition Practice 3
Food: Science and Practice 3
Food Production and Service Operations 3
Nutrition 3