NFOK20000U Meal Systems and Technologies
MSc Programme in Integrated Food Studies
Governments and local authorities have an important role and responsibility in ensuring food and meals for a wide range of people. These include elderly people in care homes, ensuring ‘healthy’ eating opportunities for children in schools and kindergartens, meeting the nutritional needs of hospital patients, to meals for prisoners or the armed forces and often the workforce employed in government service.
Public meals in this respect are highly complex and diverse food systems with many technical as well as political challenges.
This course will concentrate on the public meals systems, introducing aspects of the role that technology plays in them, such as the processing, food quality, food safety and sustainability. The course touches upon opportunities and barriers to system changes in relation to producing healthy, sustainable, palatable and ethical meals. In addition, as part of the course students will be introduced to working in a kitchen-lab.
A common theme running throughout the lessons will be the public health nutrition approach to food-related issues. This means the application of a logic sequence to be followed for identifying problems and solving them using public meals to meet nutrition and health objectives. For this approach, the students will be introduced to basic statistics and the application of it.
After completion of the course it is expected that the student has achieved the following qualifications:
Knowledge
- Knowledge and understanding of the history and development of public food systems
- Knowledge of the approach to public meals from a public health nutrition (PHN) perspective
- Knowledge about how public food supply chains are organised and work as a ‘food system’, including food preservation methods, good manufacturing practices, and hazard analysis and food hygiene
- Knowledge about how technical issues relate to public food systems
- Knowledge and comprehension on how sustainability and nutrition concerns are impacting public food systems
- Knowledge about basic statistics
Skills
- Assess the different public food systems from an integrated PHN approach
- Use kitchen-lab facilities
- Work on a multi-disciplinary problem within public meals to address a specific challenge in specific public food systems
- Apply descriptive statistics to collected data
Competences
- Integrate the public health nutrition aspects to the public meals systems
- Analyse critically a specific public food system and technologies
- Contribute critically to the design of public food systems including technological design of production, serving and catering
See Absalon for a list of course litterature.
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 53
- Preparation
- 80
- Laboratory
- 16
- Project work
- 50
- Guidance
- 6
- Exam
- 1
- Total
- 206
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination, 15 minutesIndividual oral examination about the group assignment and the course curriculum. Without preparation time.
The student may use up to 5 minutes presenting their group assignment, before the questioning by the examinations. - Exam registration requirements
Preparation of a group assignment, handed in and approved by the supervisors before the oral exam.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners.
- Re-exam
The same as the ordinary exam. Non-approved group assignments must be edited and handed in two weeks prior to the re-exam date.
Criteria for exam assesment
See Learning Outcome.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NFOK20000U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 3
- Schedule
- A
- Course capacity
- 32
The number of seats may be reduced in the late registration period - Course is also available as continuing and professional education
- Study board
- Study Board of Food, Human Nutrition and Sports
Contracting department
- Department of Food Science
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Science
Course Coordinators
- Helene Christine Reinbach (15-6b686f6871683175686c716564666b4369727267316e7831676e)
- Armando Perez-Cueto (4-637265674268717166306d7730666d)
- Bodil Helene Allesen-Holm (4-646a636a4268717166306d7730666d)
(Course coordinator)