Food Product Innovation and Enterprise

1 Year / Level 8 / Part-time / Work Placement

Is this course for me?

Opportunities are abound in the unprecedented opportunity to feed billions of new global consumers, for the sector to be more sustainable, to use food to improve the well-being of every citizen on the planet and to spend the wall of capital flooding into global agribusiness and food from external investors.

Certain semesters of this course are taken in common with other courses.

Year One

	PROPOSED MODULES	MANDATORY/ELECTIVE	CREDITS
1	Contemporary Practice in Food Innovation	Mandatory	10
	Marketing Communications & Consumer Behaviour	Mandatory	10
2	Quality Assurance and Food Regulatory Affairs	Mandatory	10
	Strategic Marketing Planning	Mandatory	5
	Food Product – Design and Development	Mandatory	10
	Work Based Learning	Mandatory	15

Entry Requirements

Minimum Entry Requirements

Honours Bachelor Degree (Level 8) in any discipline. If a candidate does not have an honours degree but has relevant experience, they may also be eligible to apply on the grounds of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPEL) if they have attained appropriate experience and attainment thresholds deemed equivalent.

Number of Places	20

Information for:

Student Experience

Career Pathways

The main employers are:

Food & Hospitality Industry
Government Agencies
Product Development

Graduate Careers

Graduate careers typically include:

Food entrepreneur
Food product developer

Employer Testimonials

-- Deirdre McGlone, Harvey's Point Hotel

Harvey’s Point Hotel have always had a great rapport with LYIT, its placement students and their graduates. Over the years we have offered work placement opportunities to numerous students from LYIT and found these students to be hard working, committed and interested in all aspects of the hospitality industry. We feel that graduates from LYIT have already had an introduction to the business world outside the classroom, thus bringing their own experience and knowledge to the hotel. We would have no hesitation in recommending recruiting LYIT graduates to other employers.

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Fees

EU Fees: €3,000

Further Information

Department Administration: +353 (0)74 9186613/+353 (0)74 9186612

Head of Department Nicola Dunnion
Email: nicola.dunnion@lyit.ie
Telephone: +353 (0)74 918 6645

School and Department
School of Business
Department of Tourism & Sport

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