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Course name in Italian: Tecnologie Alimentari

Course name in English: Food Technologies

Degree code:  L-26 Scienze e tecnologie alimentari

Duration: 3 years

Credits: 180

Language: Italian

Website: www.tecnologiealimentari.unifi.it/

Informational material: brochure

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Description

The degree course belongs to the Classe di Laurea L-26 (Scienze e tecnologie alimentari) and aims to prepare graduates who possess adequate basic knowledge in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology and professional skills specifically oriented to the entire production chain of foods, who is able to finalize the knowledge acquired in skills aimed at framing the problems and adopting measures to guarantee the quality and safety of food, from their production to their consumption, who has developed skills or criteria of ability operational made contact with the production realities through a practical internship at companies in the sector, which possesses cultural tools for information management in the food technology sectors and who is able to use, in addition to Italian, the English language at a B2 level of written comprehension.

Specific educational objectives

The possible career opportunities of the graduate in Food Technologies are: food industries and companies that operate in the production, transformation, conservation and distribution of food products; industries related to the production of food as suppliers of plants, adjuvants, ingredients and other materials; companies and public and private entities that carry out service activities in the field of analysis (microbiological, chemical / physical and sensory), control and certification of food products; companies and public and private entities that carry out service activities for the protection and enhancement of food production; freelance (food technologist).
Graduates in Food Technology have the basic preparation, method and content to be able to continue their studies in the LM-70 class courses (Food Science and Technology), which the course is online, as well as in the university masters of I level.

Articulation of training activities and curricula

The Degree Course in Food Technologies has a normal duration of 3 years. 

The student's normal activity corresponds to the achievement of 60 university training credits (CFU) per year. The student who has in any case obtained 180 ECTS by fulfilling all the provisions of the teaching structure can achieve the qualification even before the three-year deadline. The didactic structure consists of 19 exam tests to which must be added the test of knowledge of the foreign language (English level B2 written comprehension), the "virtual" exam corresponding to the credits chosen independently by the student, the carrying out of practical practical training and approval of the final report. The training activities are divided into: basic, characterizing and supplementary courses.
In terms of content, the courses are: monodisciplinary or integrated (2 or 3 modules) but in this case the exam is single. Each course of the CL includes lessons and exercises, the latter on average equal to 40% of the frontal teaching load. The training activities are distributed in semesters and the last of the third year is mainly intended for internships in companies in the sector and for the preparation of the final paper. 12 ECTS are autonomously chosen by the student. This choice is free, albeit within the limits of the educational objectives of the Degree Course. The student is also given the right to use independent choice credits, for 3 CFU, for the extension of the internship, for activities related to the deepening of the final thesis and for the acquisition of further linguistic knowledge.

Study plan

Coorte 2022  

Coorte 2023

Contacts

Caterina Dinnella 

 

orientagraria(AT)agraria.unifi.it

 

Last update

16.05.2024

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