Food chemistry/diploma
The study programme Food Chemistry is offered at TU Dresden as a diploma study programme. As a result of the diploma exam, the degree “Diploma Food chemist” is acquired. The programme corresponds in scope and nature and in examination requirements to the study programme of the State Examination. In addition, a diploma thesis is prepared to provide proof of qualification for scientific work.
For the diploma course in food chemistry, the Study regulations and examination regulations provide the following temporal parameters:
- The standard period of study: 9 semesters
- Basic study period: 1st to 4th semester
- Advanced studies: 5th to 9th semester (incl. exam time)
The basic study period is completed with the preliminary diploma examination. Subject examinations belonging to the diploma examination are taken at the end of the 8th subject semester; the 9th subject semester serves to prepare the diploma thesis.
As a rule, the university studies are followed directly by a one-year training course at an institution active in official food control. This training course concludes with the state examination for food chemists.
In the basic studies, the basic training takes place in the following teaching areas:
- Inorganic chemistry
- Physical chemistry
- Organic chemistry
- Physics
- Mathematics
Analytical teaching content is integrated into the chemical core subjects. The range of courses is supplemented by a lecture with excursion to the topic "Environment and Chemistry" as well as a subject-oriented foreign language training based on existing Abitur knowledge. Approximately 50% of the standard study period of the undergraduate course is devoted to practical laboratory training in the core subjects of chemistry and physics. The individual practical trainings of the undergraduate course are of a mutually reinforcing nature.
The advanced study period includes the actual specialist training in food chemistry and is characterised by practical laboratory courses, which amount to more than 50% of the time fund. The practical courses in food chemistry, as in the basic chemical training, are based on each other. They are complemented by excursions, which are preferably offered during the semester breaks. In the elective subject, students may choose to attend any of the lectures offered by other chemical institutes or from areas related to chemistry.
The diploma examination includes the subject examinations:
- Chemistry and analysis of foodstuffs, tobacco products, cosmetics, other consumer goods and water
- Technology of foodstuffs, tobacco products, cosmetics, other consumer goods and water
- Applied Biochemistry and Nutritional Science
- Microbiology and food hygiene
- Food Toxicology and Environmental Analysis
and the diploma thesis.