Marin biology and Foodprocessing

Duration:

3 years

Degree:

Bachelor

Entry requirements:

Minimum college entrance requirements.
Target group for the study is persons who wants a higher education which qualifies to jobs within the Seafarming- and Foodprocessingindustry.
Prior to start their study, the students must have finished high school. Alternatively, it is also possible for students, having experience from trade and industry to begin the study.

Aims and objectives:

The main objective of the study is to educate personell to a midlevel within the Aquaculture and Food Processing industry. The students achives the necessery knowledge i chemistry, biochemistry, microboilogy an marin biology, together with statistcs and introduction to Business Economy, in addition to the necessary specialization which they choose.
Within seafarming one emphasizes analyses of water and localities, the understanding of environment and organisms, knowledge to central species, besides fishhealth. One also emphasizes the importence of running a seafarming plant, where the students at the College’s fish farming plant
can practisize what they have learned during their study.
Within processing the students achieves knowledge from the food industry, specific processes and qualityassurement of fooditems. One specializes against fishprocessig.
The students qualifies to work as company leaders, consultants i private and public sector, production leaders in sale and qalityassurement. The will also be able to teach, besides function as laboratoryengineers and researchassistants.
The study allowes also for further studies (primarily against a Master-level) within relevant studydirections.

Teaching methods:

The teaching is based on lectures, laboratorywork, groupteaching, and literature search. The last semester the students will do a lecture which completes the study.
For all courses where laboratorywork are included, the appearance is compulsory and the students must have an approved laboratoryjournal prior to the ecsamination.

Structure and activities:

The first three semesters are common for all students. From the 4. semester it is possible for the students to specialize within aquaculture or processing.
For the content of the study, its structure and composition it is refered to the curriculum. For detailes it is refered to the coursedescriptions.
The study is based on basic courses, some with laboratory exercises to support the theoretical teaching, and for more applied courses, the possibility to exert skills that are professionally directed, as well as within the Collegege’s own laboratories as in cooperation with the economic life and trade industry, besides public administration. If the students chooses Aquaculture as a special subject, practice will constitute an amount of work corresponding to three norwegian credits in the
fifth. semester.
The summ of the credits after 3 years must be at least 180, and also include all the required courses in the study.

The studens form HiÅ have the opportunity to continue on a masterdegree on the university of Bergen(UiB or Norges Landbrukshøgskole(NLH. Botanikk and Zoology are compulsive courses for the students who wanted a masterdegree from UiB.


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