HGS L3 Food Science and Nutrition

Course Overview

Food Science and Nutrition is an applied qualification that offers exciting and interesting experiences that focus on gaining and applying knowledge through understanding purposeful and work-related contexts that are linked to the food industry.

Course Content

The course allows you to develop a range of complex and specific food-related practical skills, as well as a range of generic and transferable vital life-skills including independent learning, problem-solving skills and project-based research skills. You will complete three units, two mandatory and one optional.

Unit 1: Mandatory: Meeting Nutritional Needs of Specific Groups 

This unit will be completed in year 12 and enables you to demonstrate an understanding of the science of food safety, nutrition and nutritional needs in a wide range of contexts. Through on-going practical sessions you will gain practical skills to produce quality food items to meet the needs of individuals.

Unit 2: Mandatory: Ensuring Food is Safe to Eat

Completed in Y13 this unit enables you to develop an understanding of the hazards and risks in relation to the storage, preparation and cooking of food in different environments and the control measures needed to minimise these risks.

Unit 3: Optional: Experimenting to Solve Food Production Problems

One of the optional units in Y13 this will enable you to understand the properties of food in order to plan and carry out experimental work. The results would be used to propose options to solve food production problems.

Unit 4: Optional: Current Issues in Food Science and Nutrition

The second optional unit in Y13 will enable you to develop the skills needed to plan, carry out and present a research project on current related to food science and nutrition.

The range of units available would support your progress, from GCSE in particular GCSEs in Hospitality and Catering, Food Preparation and Nutrition, Biology, Physical Education, Humanities and Design & Technology.

Course Entry Requirements

Standard Entry Requirements apply

Course Specification

WJEC Level 3 Diploma in Food Science and Nutrition

https://www.wjec.co.uk/media/3llljcxy/level-3-certificate-in-food-science-and-nutrition-specification-2019-2020.pdf

Homework

At A Level, students are expected to complete a minimum of  5 hours of study a week on top of their allocated lesson time.