Ocean University of Sri Lanka - Seafood Technology (NVQ 6)

Course Overview

This course has been designed to provide wide range of specialized technical or scholastic knowledge and skills to provide all-round knowledge of seafood technology. It consist of wide range of subjects related to recent techniques involved in sea food production, processing, preservation, packaging, labeling, quality management, distribution of sea food products, and this course helps students in understanding the basic concepts such as Composition of Sea Food, Food and Nutrition, Physicochemical and Microbiological Properties and Different Techniques Related to Sea Food Processing and Preservation. Fresh diploma holders can begin their career as quality assurance executives, production executives, laboratory executives, sea food technologist etc. in sea food export companies, sea food processing companies, fish canning factories in various countries in the world.

COURSE MODULE:

SEMESTER 1

Advanced Food Microbiology, Advanced Technologies in Food Packaging, Fish and aquatic product Processing Technology – II, Control of raw material quality and safety, Waste management in seafood industry, Introduction to research methodologies and scientific communication, Business Management for Aquatic products, Introduction to Management and Organization, Problem solving and decision making.

SEMESTER 2

New Product development, Mini Research project, Sales and Marketing Management of Fish and Fishery products, Teamwork and Leadership, Creating and maintaining a learning culture at workplace.