Health, Agriculture - Food

M1 Nutrition and Food Science

  • ECTS

    60 credits

  • Duration

    1 year

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Pharmacy

  • Language(s) of instruction

    French

Presentation

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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Objectives

1ʳᵉ COMMON YEAR

Basic knowledge of the relevant fields(nutrition, food, law and business), developing students' personal potential, introducing them to research...

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Organization

Internships, tutored projects

Optional short (10 ECTS) or long (15 ECTS) internship in a public or private research laboratory

Mandatory Tutored Project: The aim of the TER (Travaux d'Étude et de Recherche) is to analyze a scientific article and write a research project based on it.

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Program

Semester 1

Compulsory courses
- Food and safety, basic concepts (5 ECTS)
- General nutrition (5 ECTS)
- The agri-food business: operations and regulations (5 ECTS)

Electives
- Project management (research, professional, personal) (5 ECTS) - Special purpose foods (5 ECTS) - Water and food (5 ECTS)
- Language UE (5 ECTS) - Free UE (5 ECTS)

Semester 2

Compulsory courses
- English (5 ECTS)
- Building a TER research project (5 ECTS)

Electives
- Micronutrients and food supplements (5 ECTS) *
- Food safety for populations (5 ECTS) **
- Food analysis - Tools for research (15 ECTS)
- Short internship (10 ECTS) - Long internship (15 ECTS)
- UE Libre (of 5 ECTS)

* prerequisite for Parcours NCA -M2
** prerequisite for NI -M2 course

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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

      • 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

        • 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

Admission

Access conditions

Applications can be submitted online:

Apply at

MASTER 1: If you are already a student at the UM or another university, you can apply via the "Mon Master" platform https://www.monmaster.gouv.fr/

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Target audience

L3 science, nutrition, food, sociology.

Level L3 health professions (medical studies, pharmacy studies) or agri-food (engineering school).

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Necessary prerequisites

Licence 3 maximum acquired for application in 1ʳᵉ year

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And then

Further studies

2ᵉ YEAR OF MASTER NSA: 3 COURSES

- Food safety (SSA)
- International nutrition (NI)
- Nutrition and food supplements (NCA)

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