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The University Certificate in Food Safety & Quality Management provides individuals an opportunity to learn basic food safety, quality control, and operations management concepts that are useful throughout the food manufacturing supply chain. It is available to non-degree seeking students and both undergraduate and graduate students at NC State University.

Program Coordinators

Clint Stevenson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Distance Education Coordinator
Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences
North Carolina State University
Campus Box 7624, Raleigh, NC 27695
919.513.2065
cdsteve3@ncsu.edu

Admissions Requirements

• Non-degree seeking and continuing education students: Must demonstrate current or previous enrollment in a 2-year or 4-year degree program at an accredited college or university and provide proof of a 2.5 GPA or higher; OR have received an Associate Degree, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts Degree.
• NC State students: Must have a GPA of 2.5 or higher.

Registration Information

Contact the Program Coordinator.

Academic Structure

Term Effective: 8/2017
Plan Code: 11FSQMCTU/32FSQMCTU
CIP Code: 01.1001
Description: Undergraduate Certificate in Food Safety & Quality Management
Offered: Depending on the combination of courses that are selected, the format of this program can either be entirely Distance Education format or a combination of Distance Education and face-to-face.

Plan Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours	Counts towards
Required Courses
FS 250	Basics of Food Safety & Quality	3
FS 435/535	Food Safety Management Systems	3
FS 416	Quality Control in Food and Bioprocessing 1	3
Elective Courses
Select one of the following:		3
BUS 370	Operations and Supply Chain Management 2
ENT 207	Insects and Human Disease
FS 421	Food Preservation
PO 425	Feed Manufacturing Technology
FM 480	Feed Quality Assurance & Formulation
HS 462	Postharvest Physiology
ISE 352	Fundamentals of Human-Machine Systems Design
PSY 307	Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Total Hours		12

1	There is a pre-requisite of ST 311 Introduction to Statistics for FS 416 Quality Control in Food and Bioprocessing. This pre-requisite may be satisfied by an equivalent course from other institutions by requesting approval from the certificate program director.
2	Per previous conversations with the Poole College of Management, this course will only be offered to Food Safety & Quality Management Certificate students in the summer session.