Food-H: course outline and objectives

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE 

Study tracks:

Path 1 - Food and neurosciences. UniPD - Lyon1 

Path 2 - Food and dietetics. UniPD - UAK 

Path 3 - Food and nutrition. UniPD- UGR 


1st Year at Unipd

1st semester:

  • Food science and safety OR Nutrition and metabolic pathways: from cells to organs OR Methodology for the hazard analysis in food-related jobs OR Nutrition related diseases (elective subject)
  • Research methods in economics: understanding decision making and consumer behavior to promote healthy choices
  • Genomics of nutrition
  • Human Nutrition: sustainability and multidisciplinary perspective

2nd semester:

  • Ecology of foodborne pathogens, food toxicology and antimicrobial resistance
  • Mechanisms of tissues diseases and how environmental clues alter organ function
  • Sustainable resource-efficient food production and processing
  • Metab-Contam-AI laboratory
  • International regulations for food safety, certification and trading


2nd Year – 3rd semester:

PATH 1 - Food and Neurosciences - Lyon 1 

  • Neural basis of cognition
  • Project Management
  • Psychophysiology of perception
  • Sensory Analysis and consumer studies
  • Business Applications
  • Data

PATH 2 - Food and dietetics - UAK

  • Clinical pathophysiology
  • Education and nutrition consulting
  • Immunodietetics
  • Methodology of assessment of food and nutrition pattern
  • Methodology of experiments 1
  • Nutrition during pregnancy, lactation and infants’ nutrition
  • Seminar
  • Planning and organisation of dietary nutrition - nutritional, technological and hygienic aspects (elective subject)
  • Natural and synthetic sweeteners (elective subject)
  • Gluten-free products and their role in human nutrition and diet therapy (elective subject)
  • Allergens in food (elective subject)
  • Functional properties of bee products (elective subject)
  • Cereals and pseudocereals in dietetics (elective subject)
  • Nutrigenetics (elective subject)

PATH 3 - Food and Nutrition – UGR

  • Students will select 10 out of the 14 listed optional courses:
  • Introduction to experimental nutrition
  • Nutritional epidemiology
  • Endocrine disruptors
  • Nutritional and physiological aspects of physical activity and sports
  • Functional foods
  • Nutrition and digestive system 1. Digestion
  • Nutrition and digestive system 2. Absorption
  • Oxidative stress and ageing
  • Nutrition in the development, evolution and prevention of prevalent chronic pathologies
  • Mediterranean diet and health
  • Nutritional therapy: allergies, intolerances and other eating disorders. diets adapted to special situations
  • Methodologies for the assessment of nutritional status
  • Relevance and use of cell cultures in nutrition research
  • Micronutrients and human health: scientific advances related to their preventive and therapeutic effects

4TH SEMESTER 

INTERNSHIP + THESIS

UBC - Food science

 or 

INDUSTRIAL INTERNSHIP + THESIS

Lyon1 – Microbiology


LINKS

University of Padua: 1st year

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1: Food and Neuroscience (path 1)

University Of Agriculture In Krakow: Food and dietetics (path 2)

University Of Granada: Food and Nutrition (path 3)

University of British Columbia: potential 4th semester internship destination