Targeted level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
120 credits
Duration
2 years
Training structure
Faculty of Pharmacy
Language(s) of instruction
French
Presentation
Food and health are intimately linked (Hippocrates). The Master Nutrition, Food Science NSA of the University of Montpellier within the Faculty of Pharmacy, fits perfectly into this approach.
This will allow students to ensure the quality and safety of food, to analyze a global nutritional situation of a population and to design intervention programs or to acquire the knowledge necessary for research in nutrition or food supplements.
After a common first year, teaching in the second year is structured around 3 courses:
- Food safety (SSA): executives responsible for companies, public organizations (ANSES....)
- International nutrition (NI): executives responsible for companies, NGOs, research oriented towards developing countries.
- Nutrition and food supplements (NCA): orientation towards careers in nutrition research and companies in the food supplements sector
The advantages of the training
Mention concerning management training in the food industry: INSEE codes 312 e, 32, 333 e and f, 342, 36, 373 b and d, 374 a and b, 377 a, 387 d
Objectives
To train executives capable of mastering the food/nutrition/public health issue, capable of ensuring food hygiene and safety and capable of apprehending agro-resources under different angles of health valorization (food supplements), capable of setting up nutritional plans in developing countries, capable of carrying out research programs in the field of nutrition (biological or social sciences)
Know-how and skills
The format of total mutualization within the Nutrition and Food Sciences field from the first year in the common core and through the 3 courses in the second year allows students to train according to their skill needs to respond to the job market in a competitive manner.
- To acquire the tools to set up a quality system
- To know how to evaluate and improve the nutritional and sanitary capacities of foods
- To be able to implement food and nutritional intervention policies
- To acquire mastery of epidemiological investigation techniques
- To study food supplements (regulations, quality, research)
- To study foods with specific purposes such as parenteral nutrition, infantile nutrition or intended for a population with pathologies or deficiencies.
- To master the tools of research in nutrition and food safety.
Organization
Special arrangements
Possibility of choosing a UE (maximum 5 ECTS in another distance or face-to-face training)
Program
1st year common
2nd year including 3 courses:
- Food safety (SSA)
- International nutrition (NI)
- Nutrition and food supplements (NCA)
Select a program
International Nutrition (NI)
Main EUs
15 creditsFood safety basics
5 creditsFood company
5 creditsGeneral Nutrition
5 credits
CHOICE 1
15 creditsChoice of 3 from 9
Biostatistics with R
5 creditsProject management
5 creditsMolecular pharmacology and therapeutics
5 creditsWater and food
5 creditsPhysicochemistry of health product formulation
5 creditsFree
5 creditsSpecial purpose foods
5 creditsCHOICE Languages
5 creditsYour choice: 1 of 4
English semester 1
5 creditsSpanish semester 1
5 creditsItalian semester 1
5 creditsGerman semester 1
5 credits
Functional properties of nutrients
3 credits
Compulsory UEs S2
10 creditsSupervised research project (TER)
5 creditsEnglish
5 credits
CHOICE 2
20 creditsChoice of 1 of 3
Choice of long internship
20 creditsLong internship 462h
15 creditsChoice of EU
5 creditsChoice of 1 or 2 from 5
Raw materials and drug formulation
3 creditsFree
5 creditsFood security for populations
5 creditsDermo-pharmaceutical basics
2 creditsMicronutrients and dietary supplements
5 credits
Choice Short course
20 creditsCHOIX 4UE
10 creditsChoice of 2 to 3 from 5
Raw materials and drug formulation
3 creditsFree
5 creditsFood security for populations
5 creditsDermo-pharmaceutical basics
2 creditsMicronutrients and dietary supplements
5 credits
Short course 308h
10 credits
Choice Analys Aliment
20 creditsFood analysis, research tools
15 creditsChoice of EU
5 creditsChoice of 1 or 2 from 5
Raw materials and drug formulation
3 creditsFree
5 creditsFood security for populations
5 creditsDermo-pharmaceutical basics
2 creditsMicronutrients and dietary supplements
5 credits
CHOICE 1
15 creditsChoice of 3 out of 7
Food supplements
5 creditsResearch & D evelopment (R&D)
5 creditsFree
5 creditsControlling food safety
5 creditsFood Project
5 creditsCrisis management and auditing
5 creditsFood risk
5 creditsFood risk 2
1 creditsFood risk 1
4 credits
Compulsory courses
15 credits
Nutrition and Food Supplements (NCA)
Nutrition and Food Supplements course (NCA)
Food Safety (SSA)
Food Safety pathway (SSA)
To train or develop competent executives (managers, administrators, advisors, consultants...) in food safety.
Appreciate all the activities of health watch, surveillance and vigilance and translate them into terms of management and control at different levels of the food chain.
Admission
Conditions of access
Target audience
L3 science, nutrition, food, sport, sociology,...
L3 level health or agri-food professions (medicine, pharmacy, engineering, etc.)
Capacity
1st year: 50 students
Year 2:
- SSA course: 20 students
- NI course: 10 students
- NCA course: 20 students
Necessary pre-requisites
License 3 acquired for the application in 1st year
Recommended prerequisites
For a 2nd year application, experience in the field is recommended
And then
Further studies
- Food industry
- International organizations, NGOs, ...
- Competent administration (AFSSA, ..)
- All sectors of the food chain (restaurants, supermarkets, etc.)
- Food supplement industries
- Sports nutrition environment
- Research laboratories