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Food Consumption and Nutrition Sciences

General information

Official Code: 5574
Acronym: DCCAN
Description: The Consumer Sciences in Food and Nutrition it is a 3rd cycle post graduation aimed at professionals in the fields of Nutrition, Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Biologic Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biochemistry and Biotechnology.
The cycle of studies, a three years cycle, provides a total of 180 ECTS. It consists of a PhD course, that not awards a degree, which corresponds to 30 ECTS credits and of a scientific thesis, original, specially made for this purpose and based on research work, corresponding to 150 ECTS, and whose approval in a public examination will award the degree of Doctor of Consumer Sciences in Food and Nutrition.
The cycle of studies is accredited by the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education.

Certificates

  • Food Consumption and Nutrition Sciences (180 ECTS credits)
  • Food Consumption Sciences (30 ECTS credits)

Courses Units

Research Competences and Attitudes

DCCAN03 - ECTS

The curricular unit aims to ensure that students are able to develop and strengthen the skills that are relevant to perform research work as part of a doctoral degree. This is achieved through actions and tasks that foster the acquisition of concepts, methodologies and approaches used in research. The goal of the course is to allow the student to develop core competencies for research, essential for an adequate training of a research student.

 

 

Quantitative Methodologies in Consumption and Nutrition

DCCAN20 - ECTS This curricular unit aims to transmit competences to the students in order to enable them:
- To do a critical analyis of the statistical methodology used in scientific studies;
- To select the set of tools more adequate to the research they need to preform.

Research Project

DCCAN04 - ECTS

Identify an object of research, formulate hypotheses and set goals;

Question and argue the relevance of deepening an area in terms of research;

Know techniques and methods of scientific research;

To plan and refine a research project;

Plan and detail the data management project and eventual request to the Ethics Committee.

 

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