Specialty: Food Science

Minimum Total Credits: 12.0

Minimum Compulsory Course Credits: 9.0

Minimum Optional Course Credits: 3.0

Objectives

The program aims to cultivate high-level specialized personnel who are equipped with patriotism, observe law and discipline and who are well-developed in moral, intellectual and physical aspects; who have noble character, rigorous style of study, strong dedication to career and good teamwork spirit. Students are required to have a good command of solid and broad basic theory, and systematically profound academic knowledge; who have abilities to undertake scientific researches independently and are able to make creative achievements in scientific and specialized technical fields.

Years of Study

The three-year Ph.D program requires that students be normally not permitted to enroll more than six years (including suspension from school) to complete the degree.

Major Research Fields

1. Food Chemistry
2. Food Biotechnology
3. Food Engineering
4. New Technology of Food Greening Processing

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 published 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 are 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