Course Structure
This curriculum applies to all students who start their studies in the winter semester 2024/25 or later. The curriculum for students who started their studies before the winter semester 2024/25 can be found here.
The curriculum serves as an overview of the various modules that you have to take in the course of the study programme. The sequence of the modules is a recommendation and the semester offer may deviate from it.
The Master's programme "Food Quality and Safety" (M.Sc.) comprises modules with a total of 120 ECTS credits*. It offers a broad range of modules, which are structured into the following module areas and courses:
- A. Biology, Biochemistry and Chemistry of Food - 25 ECTSHide
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- Food Metabolome and Toxicology (5 ECTS)
- Food Microbiology (5 ECTS)
- Crop Plant and Animal Biology (5 ECTS)
- Chemical Food Analysis (5 ECTS)
- Nutritional Biochemistry, Physiology and Immunology (5 ECTS)
- Food Metabolome and Toxicology (5 ECTS)
- B. Data Science/ Information Technology/ Statistics - 5 ECTSHide
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- Data Analysis and Statistics (5 ECTS)
- Data Analysis and Statistics (5 ECTS)
- C. Law and Management - 25 ECTSHide
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- Introduction to Law and Food Law (5 ECTS)
- Food Safety and Risk Management Law (5 ECTS)
- Food Quality and Food Authenticity Law (5 ECTS)
- Food Supply Chain Management (5 ECTS)
- Food Quality Management (5 ECTS)
- D. Multidisciplinary Training - 8 ECTSHide
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- Research Seminar (3 ECTS)
- Interdisciplinary Topics in Food Quality and Safety (5 ECTS)
- Research Seminar (3 ECTS)
- E. Specialisation and Skills (Supplementary Module Area) - 15 ECTSHide
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Varying course offer each semester but regularly offered courses include:
- Advanced Plant Breeding and Sustainable Food Production (5 ECTS)
- Food Trade Law (5 ECTS)
- Impact Entrepreneurship - Developing Social and Ecological Innovations (6 ECTS)
- Research and Study Skills (5 ECTS)
- Science Communication (3 ECTS)
- Advanced Plant Breeding and Sustainable Food Production (5 ECTS)
- Mandatory 9-week Internship - 12 ECTSHide
- Master Thesis - 30 ECTSHide
We attach great importance to practical training for our students. For this reason, all natural science modules include a comprehensive practical laboratory course. Under qualified supervision, our students learn modern laboratory techniques and analytical methods in laboratories specially equipped for teaching which they can then apply to their own exciting experiments.
* ECTS credits: The awarding of credit points according to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) facilitates the international comparability of coursewerk completed at European higher education institutions.