Health, Agriculture - Food

Nutrition and Food Supplements (NCA)

  • ECTS

    120 credits

  • Duration

    2 years

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Pharmacy

  • Language(s) of instruction

    French

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Nutrition and Food Supplements course (NCA)

The NCA pathway enables students to acquire the knowledge they need for careers in nutrition research and to prepare for a career in the food supplements industry.

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Organization

Internships, tutored projects

Internship

Possible

Program

3 compulsory courses focusing on Nutrition and Food Supplements (NCA) from the full range of courses available:

- UE Recherche et Développement (R&D) Ms OIRY-CUQ Catherine
- UE Compléments Alimentaires Mr NEASTA Jérémie
- UE Food Project Mr AUBIN Jean-Christophe

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M1 Nutrition and Food Science

Master 1 Nutrition and Food Science

This first common-core transdisciplinary year covers the fields of nutrition and food science. This transdisciplinarity ensures a wide range of job profiles.

At the end of this 1ʳᵉ year, students choose their Master 2 pathway (SSA, NI, or NCA).

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  • Main EUs

    15 credits
    • Food safety basics

      5 credits
    • Food company

      5 credits
    • General Nutrition

      5 credits
  • Elective courses - Semester 1

    15 credits
    • Choice of 3 out of 5

      • Project management

        5 credits
      • Water and food

        5 credits
      • Free

        5 credits
        • Your choice: 1 of 4

          • Biostatistics with R

            5 credits
          • Molecular pharmacology and therapeutics

            5 credits
          • Physicochemistry of health product formulation

            5 credits
            • Physicochemistry of health product formulation EC/CC

            • Physicochemistry of health product formulation Written

          • Functional properties of nutrients

            3 credits
      • Special purpose foods

        5 credits
        • Specific foods CC

        • Specific CT foods

      • CHOICE Languages

        5 credits
        • Your choice: 1 of 4

          • English semester 1

            5 credits
          • Spanish semester 1

            5 credits
          • Italian semester 1

            5 credits
          • German semester 1

            5 credits
  • Compulsory UEs S2

    10 credits
    • Supervised research project (TER)

      5 credits
      • Oral TER

      • TER report

    • English

      5 credits
  • Elective courses - Semester 2

    20 credits
    • Choice: 1 of 3

      • UE Long internship + elective UE

        20 credits
        • Long internship 462h

          15 credits
          • Long-term internship dissertation

          • Oral long internship

        • Elective courses

          5 credits
          • Choice of 1 or 2 from 3

            • Free

              5 credits
            • Food security for populations

              5 credits
            • Micronutrients and dietary supplements

              5 credits
              • Micronutrients CT

              • Micronutrients CC

      • UE Internship + elective UEs

        20 credits
        • Elective courses

          10 credits
          • Choice of 2 or 3 of 3

            • Free

              5 credits
            • Food security for populations

              5 credits
            • Micronutrients and dietary supplements

              5 credits
              • Micronutrients CT

              • Micronutrients CC

        • Short course 308h

          10 credits
          • Oral short course

          • Short course dissertation

      • UE Tools for Research, Food Analysis + Elective UEs

        20 credits
        • UE Tools for Research, Food Analysis

          15 credits
        • Elective courses

          5 credits
          • Choice of 1 or 2 from 3

            • Free

              5 credits
            • Food security for populations

              5 credits
            • Micronutrients and dietary supplements

              5 credits
              • Micronutrients CT

              • Micronutrients CC

M2 Nutrition and Food Supplements

Master 2 Nutrition and Food Supplements (NCA)

The NCA pathway enables students to acquire the knowledge they need to move into careers in nutrition research and prepare for a career in the food supplements industry.

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  • Main EUs

    15 credits
    • Food supplements

      5 credits
    • Research & D evelopment (R&D)

      5 credits
    • Food Project

      5 credits
  • CHOICE 1

    15 credits
    • Choice of 3 from 9

      • Nutrition and food survey method in the south

        5 credits
      • Public nutrition concept and issues

        5 credits
        • Public nutitrion: concept and issues CC

        • Public Nuttrition: concept and issues CT

      • Communication and marketing strategy for healthcare products

        5 credits
        • Communication strategy/Marketing of healthcare products Oral

        • Communication strategy/Marketing health products Written

      • Free

        5 credits
      • Statistics applied to biology

        5 credits
      • Controlling food safety

        5 credits
      • Crisis management and auditing

        5 credits
      • Food-based ways of improving nutritional situations

        5 credits
      • Food risk

        5 credits
        • Food risk 2

          1 credits
        • Food risk 1

          4 credits
  • 6-month internship

    30 credits
    • Oral training

    • Internship