Processing and Storage of Aquatic Products
 
time: 2015-09-17

Faculty: School of Light Industry and Food Science

Degree: MS

Specialty: Processing and Storage of Aquatic Products

Minimum Total Credits: 25.0

Minimum Compulsory Course Credits: 15.0

Minimum Optional Course Credits: 10.0

Objectives

The program aims to cultivate quality specialists who are well-develop morally, intellectually and physically. Students are required to have good character and fine scholarship, rigorous learning spirits and all-round developed; be equipped with solid theoretical foundation, specialized knowledge and experimental skills of Food Science; be well-informed with the technological developing trends of this discipline both at home and abroad; have strong abilities to undertake jobs of independent scientific researches, designs and teaching. Graduates are expected to be competent to engage in teaching, scientific researches, manufacturing and management jobs in the research field.

Years of Study

Three years

Major Research Fields

1. Processing Project of Aquatic Products
2. Storage and Preservation of Aquatic Products
3. Living Marine Resources Development

Cultivation Mode

Advisory system is applied in the program. Students are required to draw up a working plan in the first two weeks after registration and bound to participate in the stage assessment before the end of the third semester according to Master Degree Candidate Medium-Term Screening Method of South China University of Technology and complete social practices. Regular seminar reports are required.

Dissertation

Students should draw up a thesis working plan and prepare thesis proposals between the 11th and the 20th weeks in the third semester. Literature Review and Thesis Proposals have to be finished before the end of the third semester. Before applying for the thesis defense, students are required to have published at least two research papers in core academic journals in the field of China’s scientific research papers. On the completion of theses, thesis defense will be arranged according to Rules for the Implementation of Graduation Degrees of South China University of Technology and Regulations of the Applications for Thesis Defense of South China University of Technology. Apart from the above related regulations of degree thesis made by SCUT, the thesis is supposed to meet the school requirements in terms of academic nature, systematicness, innovativeness and engineering application.

Curriculum

Compulsory Courses

Course Code

Course Title

Credit

S0001001

Scientific Socialism Theory and Practice

1


S0001002

Introduction to Dialectics of Nature

2


S0002004

First Foreign Language (Specialty English)

1


S0002011

First Foreign Language (Essential English))

3


S0003001

Theory and Methods of Statistics

2


S0004023

Theoretical Organic Chemistry

3


Group 1 of Compulsory Courses

S0832026

Progress and Technology of Food Science

2

S0832027

Food Engineering

2

S0832051

Storage and Deep Processing and Utilization of Agricultural and Aquatic Products

3

Optional Courses

S0004013

Principles of Economics

2

S0004015

Principles of Management

2

S0004034

Scientific Writing and Submission Guidance

1

S0832003

Functional Foods

2

S0832005

Food Additives Chemistry

2

S0832006

Food Flavor Chemistry

2

S0832008

Food Spectroscopy

2

S0832012

Food Properties and Rheology

2

S0832014

Food Toxicology

2

S0832021

Advances in Food and Nutrition

2

S0832036

Non-Thermal Sterilization Technology

2

S0832050

Advanced Food Chemistry

3