C10482v1 Bachelor of Food Science and Technology
Award(s): Bachelor of Food Science and Technology (BFoodScTech)UAC code: 607085 (Autumn session)
CRICOS code: 116214M
Commonwealth supported place?: Yes
Load credit points: 144
Course EFTSL: 3
Location: City campus
Notes
Course will first be offered in 2025.
Overview
Course aims
Career options
Innovation and Transdisciplinary program
Course intended learning outcomes
Admission requirements
Pathway course
Assumed knowledge
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course program
Honours
Other information
Overview
According to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestries, Australia has an international reputation as being a producer of modern, safe, reliable and sustainable food. In Australia, the food industry represents around 20% of domestic manufacturing sales and service income. The Bachelor of Food Science and Technology prepares students to make their mark in this rapidly expanding field by building the skills to help transform the global food economy.
Course content emphasises technology-led innovation and the development of new food products and systems, combining biotechnology and specialist food science subjects with targeted cross-faculty electives.
Why UTS Science?
UTS Science, one of Australia's leading university science faculties, is committed to scientific advancement that creates a more sustainable world. When students study with UTS, they join a university that delivers global impact in STEM education and research and a faculty that produces scientists with the power to transform the profession.
Course features
- Students complete a series of common core subjects that underpin all undergraduate UTS Science degrees. Design, Data, and Decisions and Scientific Perspectives for Global Issues are designed to equip students with a toolkit of technical and workplace skills, preparing them to thrive both at and after uni.
- Specialist food science subjects emphasise the science behind food products and their development, including specialist food technology subjects and related learning in biochemistry, biotechnology and biobusiness.
- Capstone project: In their final year, students draw on all their skills to develop a novel food product from concept through to formulation, development and market testing.
- Free electives: Students can customise the degree to suit their personal or career aspirations. They can enrol in an international exchange, pursue a professional internship, or tailor the degree with a choice of subjects from choice of subjects from UTS Science, Law or Design, Architecture and Building.
Course aims
A standalone food technology degree
With its focus on the whole food system and the circular economy, the Bachelor of Food Science and Technology is unique in New South Wales. Students gain hands-on expertise in technological approaches to food product and systems development, preparing them to meet growing demand for qualified food technologists in Australia and beyond.
Customisable learning
Students can use their elective subjects to deepen their scientific expertise or to expand their learning beyond the bounds of UTS Science. These include The Bio Kitchen, with its focus on the creation of novel biomaterials, and Intellectual Property and Commercialisation, which introduces students to the legal considerations of bringing new ideas to market.
Study in purpose-built facilities
As a university of technology, UTS is known for its commitment to practice-based teaching and the integration of new technologies into course design and development. Students learn in the world-class Hive Superlab and UTS Science Superlab, two tech-driven learning environments that support simultaneous teaching of multiple classes in a single collaborative space. Dedicated food processing and sensory laboratories will allow students to hone their skills in food processing, production and product design.
Career options
Graduates emerge ready to deploy their skills in a range of food-related roles, including food technologist, microbiologist or chemist; safety and quality assurance specialist; product developer; or marketer.
Innovation and Transdisciplinary program
Transdisciplinarity and Innovation at UTSAll UTS students have the opportunity to develop distinctive capabilities around transdisciplinary thinking and innovation through the TD School. Transdisciplinary education at UTS brings together great minds from different disciplines to explore ideas that improve the way we live and work in the world. These offerings are unique to UTS and directly translate to many existing and emerging roles and careers.
Diploma in InnovationThe Diploma in Innovation (C20060) teaches innovation, supports personal transformation and provides the hard skills needed to support the inventors and inventions of the future. Students come out of the Diploma in Innovation, with the hard skills to create and support sectoral and societal transformation. Graduates are able to fluently integrate ideas, across professional disciplines and are inventors of the future.
All UTS undergraduate students (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation) can apply for the Diploma in Innovation upon admission in their chosen undergraduate degree. It is a complete degree program that runs in parallel to any undergraduate degree. The course is offered on a three-year, part-time basis, with subjects running in 3-week long intensive blocks in July, December and February sessions. More information including a link to apply is available at https://dipinn.uts.edu.au.
Transdisciplinary electives programTransdisciplinary electives broaden students' horizons and supercharge their problem-solving skills, helping them to learn outside, beyond and across their degrees. Students enrolled in an undergraduate course that includes electives can choose to take a transdisciplinary subject (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation). More information about the TD Electives program is available here.
Course intended learning outcomes
| 1.1 | Explain how applying and integrating current food science, technologies and research can help the development and sustainable production of safe, healthy and commercially viable food and beverage products. |
| 2.1 | Apply critical, strategic and creative reasoning to assess and interpret scientific data and articulate issues or advances related to Food Science and Technology. |
| 3.1 | Articulate how Food Science underpins a healthy and sustainable society and demonstrate knowledge and commitment to the professional, ethical and social contexts and impacts related to Food Science and Technology in the economy. |
| 4.1 | Identify, reflect upon, and create opportunities to innovate and develop strategies to achieve meaningful outcomes in food science and technology. |
| 5.1 | Display effective and appropriate communication approaches independently or collaboratively to report, persuade, and respond to a range of audiences. |
| 6.1 | Acquire and apply knowledge of Indigenous Australian contexts to inform professional capabilities to work effectively with and for Indigenous Australians across the food science profession. |
Admission requirements
Applicants must have completed an Australian Year 12 qualification, Australian Qualifications Framework Diploma, or equivalent Australian or overseas qualification at the required level.
The English proficiency requirement for international students or local applicants with international qualifications is: IELTS Academic: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL iBT: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21; or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64 with a writing score of 50; or C1A/C2P: 176-184 with a writing score of 169.
Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.
International students
Visa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia, international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian student visa regulations also require international students studying on student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional circumstances.
Pathway course
Successful completion of the UTS College Diploma of Science (Life Science) guarantees entry into the course with 48 credit points of recognition of prior learning.
Assumed knowledge
Mathematics Advanced; any two units of English; any two units of Science.
Chemistry, Mathematics Advanced are recommended.
Course duration and attendance
Students can complete the course over three years of full-time or six years of part-time study. Part-time students are required to attend some classes in daytime hours.
Course structure
Students must complete a total of 144 credit points, made up of 48 credit points of core subjects, 72-credit-points of food science and technology disciplinary subjects and 24 credit points of electives.
Industrial training/professional practice
Students studying this course have an opportunity to undertake a professional experience or research experience subject and receive academic credit for their placement off campus (an external business or research institute) or on campus (UTS research institutes or departments), in a capacity relevant to their academic studies.
Course completion requirements
| STM91914 Scientist's Tool Kit (Food Science and Technology) | 48cp | |
| STM91913 Core disciplinary subjects (Food Science and Technology) | 72cp | |
| CBK92300 Electives (Science UG) | 24cp | |
| Total | 144cp |
Course program
Typical course programs are shown below.
| Autumn commencing, full time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 65111 Chemistry 1 | 6cp | |
| 91161 Cell Biology and Genetics | 6cp | |
| 33116 Design, Data, and Decisions | 6cp | |
| 91251 Foundations of Food Science | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 65212 Chemistry 2 | 6cp | |
| 91123 Nature and Evolution | 6cp | |
| 60006 Scientific Perspectives for Global Issues | 6cp | |
| 91132 Molecular Biology | 6cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 91314 General Microbiology | 6cp | |
| 91320 Metabolic Biochemistry | 6cp | |
| 91256 Food and Nutrition | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| 91142 Biotechnology | 6cp | |
| 85001 The Bio Kitchen | 6cp | |
| 65306 Analytical Chemistry 1 | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 91178 Applications of Molecular Biology | 6cp | |
| 91254 Food Safety and Quality | 6cp | |
| 91252 Food Processing | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| 65409 Analytical Chemistry 2 | 6cp | |
| 91195 Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Infections | 6cp | |
| 79006 Intellectual Property Commercialisation | 6cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 91255 Chemistry and Physics of Food | 6cp | |
| Select 18 credit points from the following: | 18cp | |
| CBK92300 Electives (Science UG) | 24cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 91368 Bioreactors and Bioprocessing | 6cp | |
| 91369 Biobusiness | 6cp | |
| 91253 Food Product Development | 6cp | |
| CBK92069 Transdisciplinary Electives | 6cp | |
| Spring commencing, full time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| Spring session | ||
| 65111 Chemistry 1 | 6cp | |
| 60006 Scientific Perspectives for Global Issues | 6cp | |
| 91161 Cell Biology and Genetics | 6cp | |
| 91123 Nature and Evolution | 6cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| January Session | ||
| 65212 Chemistry 2 | 6cp | |
| Autumn session | ||
| 91314 General Microbiology | 6cp | |
| 91256 Food and Nutrition | 6cp | |
| 91251 Foundations of Food Science | 6cp | |
| CBK92069 Transdisciplinary Electives | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 91254 Food Safety and Quality | 6cp | |
| 91252 Food Processing | 6cp | |
| 91368 Bioreactors and Bioprocessing | 6cp | |
| 91132 Molecular Biology | 6cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 91320 Metabolic Biochemistry | 6cp | |
| 33116 Design, Data, and Decisions | 6cp | |
| 91255 Chemistry and Physics of Food | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| 91142 Biotechnology | 6cp | |
| 85001 The Bio Kitchen | 6cp | |
| 65306 Analytical Chemistry 1 | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 91178 Applications of Molecular Biology | 6cp | |
| 91369 Biobusiness | 6cp | |
| 91253 Food Product Development | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| 65409 Analytical Chemistry 2 | 6cp | |
| 91195 Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Infections | 6cp | |
| 79006 Intellectual Property Commercialisation | 6cp | |
| Year 4 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| Select 18 credit points from the following: | 18cp | |
| CBK92300 Electives (Science UG) | 24cp | |
Honours
The Bachelor of Science (Honours) (C09168) is available to eligible students with an additional one year of full-time study.
Other information
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