Faculty: School of Light Industry and Food Science

Degree: Ph.D

Specialty: Food Quality and Security

Minimum Total Credits: 12.0

Minimum Compulsory Course Credits: 9.0

Minimum Optional Course Credits: 3.0

Objectives

This program aims to cultivate contemporary high-level specialists with integrated skills of well-developed nature in moral, intellectual and physical aspects. Students should be aware of the importance of the discipline and have an in-depth understanding of the developing orientation and frontier research issues of the discipline with a good mastery of basic theories, regulations, detection technology and management technology; and be able to put forward the key subjects that may promote the theoretical development and technical progress of the study field. Students are expected to have strong abilities to undertake innovative basic researches independently with a proficiency command of a foreign language and to be competent to engage in scientific researches, teaching and management jobs in scientific research institutes, administrative units and enterprises.

Years of Study

Three years

Major Research Fields

1. Food Microbiology
2. Food Safety and Control

Cultivation Mode

Advisory system is applied in this doctoral program. Doctoral students should draw up a working program with the instruction of their supervisors in the first month after registration. Students are supposed to participate in the medium term assessment according to Doctor Degree Candidate Medium-Term Assessment Method of South China University of Technology (those who are enrolled in doctoral program ahead of the schedule, or who are enrolled in master-doctoral program, or who are enrolled in straight-in doctoral program are supposed to participate in the medium term assessment according to Doctor Degree Candidate Medium-Term Assessment Method of South China University of Technology before the end of the second semester when they obtain the doctorate) and complete the required social practices before the end of the third semester (in-service doctoral students are exempt from social practices). Regular stage summaries are needed.

Dissertation

Doctoral students should draw up a working thesis plan, look up related literature of the research field in recent 10 years and write thesis proposals between the 8^th and 15^th weeks of the third semester. Before applying for the thesis defense, students are required to publish at least three academic papers related to thesis topics among which two papers should be published in SCI or in the second sector or above in SCI. 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 on the completion of theses.

Curriculum