Because there are many classifications of nutrition now, first make sure that you are studying for a master's degree in medicine? Master of engineering? Master of Agriculture? Master of Science?
Second, after confirmation, different classification methods determine your different examination subjects.
Master of medicine (2+ 1) requires that the comprehensive course should be a comprehensive course of preventive medicine, or a comprehensive course of western medicine, or, like me, a little biased towards engineering, that is, a comprehensive course of nutrition and hygiene. The first two are easier to adjust, and the last one is almost desperate.
Master of Engineering (3+ 1), 1 is the integration of nutrition and health, or microorganisms, or others;
Master's degree in agronomy (2+2), chemistry (general chemical synthesis, some organic or inorganic chemistry), nutrition and health;
Please see Nanchang University Admissions Catalogue for Master of Science.
Third, understand what graduate students majoring in nutrition do. Medical treatment, killing rats, rabbits, etc. , to carry out some nutrition and toxicology research. The remaining three are similar, all close to engineering. This experiment may not only kill rats, but also affect the safety of food factories. Experiments are mainly microbial experiments and physical and chemical experiments.
It seems that there are not many majors in China, which is very interesting. I also study cooking. It's a good major for people who like food:), many foreign schools have separate food nutrition courses, but in China it seems to be divided into several categories, mainly in medical schools. Find some information on the internet, please refer to it.
According to reports, nutritionists in China appeared in the 1920s, and most of them were graduates from the Department of Home Economics. At that time, both yenching university and Peking Union Medical College set up departments of home economics and offered courses on nutrition knowledge. Until the 1950s, nutritionists in China all originated here. 1985, Sun Yat-sen University (Medical University) re-established the Department of Nutrition and established "Medical Nutrition Specialty". Two years later, Zhejiang Medical University also enrolled undergraduates majoring in nutrition. Therefore, nutritionists are trained by colleges and universities.
However, the development course of nutritionists is full of twists and turns. 1999 when the Ministry of Education adjusted its major, it cancelled the major of medical nutrition. Although Sun Yat-sen University has set up a training mode of medical nutrition among medical students majoring in preventive medicine to maintain the training and education foundation of nutritionists in China to the greatest extent, this small amount of education is far from meeting the needs of society for nutritionists. In 2004, the former Shanghai Second Medical University reopened its major related to nutrition. Therefore, at present, there are three universities in China that export nutritionists to the society through academic education: Sun Yat-sen University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Sichuan University. In addition to the main channel of university training, some technical secondary schools have also trained a group of nutritionists.
One of the hottest jobs in the future
Relevant data show that at present, there is a lack of nutrition guidance professionals with nutritionists as the main body in China, and there are less than 4,000 nutritionists nationwide. Japan has the longest life expectancy in the world. According to the current ratio of 1 nutritionist for every 300 people, there are 4 million employment opportunities for nutritionists in China. Authorities predict that dietitians will be one of the hottest jobs in China in the future, with a wide range of social needs and good employment prospects.
There are only a handful of people who have become nutritionists through academic education in China, and a considerable number of them have studied nursing medicine and turned to nutrition because of their work needs. At present, less than 100 nutrition professionals graduate from medical universities every year. However, some smaller medical universities are short of nutrition teachers, and there is no such major at all. There are only a handful of universities offering nutrition departments in China, and it took several years to start their own businesses. The number of nutritionists trained in colleges and universities is limited, and the clients are mostly confined to patients with endocrine and respiratory diseases in hospitals. The gap between nutritionists is huge.
Introduction to nutrition-related majors:
food science and engineering
Food science and engineering is an interdisciplinary subject based on chemistry, biology and chemical engineering, which studies the basic theory and applied technology of modern food processing. China's traditional food processing technology has a high position in the world. With the continuous improvement of social civilization, people's desire to improve their quality of life is increasingly strong, and international competition is unprecedentedly fierce. The requirement of applying modern processing technology in food development and production is also increasing. At the same time, through the integration of modern processing theory and technology, the traditional concept of food processing technology has been greatly expanded, so the knowledge structure of graduates of this major can be widely adapted to processing enterprises and related administrative, commercial, scientific research, circulation and other departments with various biomaterials as raw materials.
Employment orientation: modern processing enterprises that aim at various foods or other industrial products, take modern biology and engineering technology as the means, and use biological materials such as various animal and plant products or other industrial products as raw materials, as well as relevant state organs, universities, scientific research institutes, customs, commodity inspection, health and epidemic prevention, environmental protection, intellectual property protection and other departments.
Main courses: meat technology, dairy technology, fruit and vegetable processing technology, soft drink technology, baking food technology, modern food processing technology principle, food sensory evaluation, food packaging, food machinery, food factory design, etc.
Degree awarded: Bachelor of Engineering
The main institutions are China Agricultural University, Jiangnan University, Nanchang University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Northeast Agricultural University, Southwest University, South China Agricultural University, Hangzhou Business School, Shenyang Agricultural University, Zhengzhou Institute of Light Industry, Nanjing Agricultural University, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Harbin University of Commerce, South China University of Technology, etc.
Food quality and safety
Based on life science and food science, this major studies the relationship between food nutrition, safety and health, the guarantee of food nutrition and the quality management of food safety and hygiene. It is an important part of food science and preventive medicine, and an important bridge connecting food and preventive medicine. Through the management and control of food production and processing, the nutritional quality and hygienic quality of food are guaranteed and human health is promoted. The guarantee of food nutrition and safety mainly depends on the comprehensive and systematic quality management of food production, which expands nutrition and food safety from the past supervision and management to many fields including food production, food nutrition, food safety and food quality control, and plays an increasingly important role in various fields of life science and food science.
Main courses: general biology, food microbiology, basic biochemistry, human function (human physiology, biochemistry and pathophysiology), nutrition, food hygiene, food chemistry, food technology, food safety and quality control technology, food quality inspection technology, food microbiology inspection technology, functional food science, food enterprise management, etc.
Employment direction: After graduation, I can engage in food production, nutrition and food safety management in food hygiene supervision departments at all levels, product planning and design, food enterprise management departments, food enterprise safety and quality control management departments, community nutrition and food safety service departments, catering industry nutrition catering departments, teaching units and research institutes.
Degree awarded: Bachelor of Science
The main institutions are China Ji Liang University, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Hangzhou Business School, China Pharmaceutical University, Shanghai Fisheries University, Nanjing Agricultural University and Guangdong Ocean University.
Other majors related to nutrition are: nutrition, maternal and child health medicine, animal science, food nutrition and inspection education, cooking and nutrition education, etc.
Fourth, determine the school. There are many medical schools that offer this major and do real nutrition research after going in. Agricultural colleges and some light industrial schools will also offer this major, but there are relatively few people who study it theoretically.
Find one or two students from this school to help you know the teacher and find internal information. Help you pass professional courses.
That's about it. However, you must know where you will go after learning. Also, teachers don't like to bring students with poor hands-on ability. Because you are not a professional, you may be at a disadvantage when choosing a tutor, so you'd better get the tutor first.