Master SCIENCES SOCIALES APPLIQUEES A L’ALIMENTATION

SOCIAL SCIENCES APPLIED TO FOOD (SSAA)

Training

Location

Toulouse

Diploma obtained

Master

Admission requirements

BAC +3

Professionalization

Initial and continuing training

Training objectives

The Master's degree in Social Sciences Applied to Food is designed to disseminate new practical and theoretical skills in a context of crises that have partially invalidated certain organizational logics in the industry. The aim of the Master's degree in Social Sciences Applied to Food is to acquire the knowledge and tools needed to understand the logics of players, strategies and policies implemented at different levels in the food sector, and to integrate them into their professional practices. The reorganization of food sectors and the food landscape is expressed by technical and administrative authorities in the phrase "inverting the traditional upstream-downstream approach in favor of an upstream-downstream approach", i.e. taking into account the social aspects of food, the acceptability of innovations, and the major determinants of the transformation in consumption patterns (aging population, changing lifestyles, complex food expectations combining health, pleasure and culture, legalization of consumption, transformation of the human-animal relationship, etc.).).

Job opportunities professionals

This program prepares students for research, study and leadership roles in the agri-food and catering industries, in commercial or medico-social food-health-environment communications, and in food-related research and development. Students can look forward to working in a wide range of sectors: research and communications agencies, market and marketing research consultancies, mass retailing companies, food processing and processing industries, food-related associations, social and medico-social institutions and associations, survey institutes, catering companies, inter-professional organizations in the agricultural and agri-food sector, local authorities, training and research, museography, etc. Target professions :

Studies and research manager
Project coordinator
Product manager in the food industry
Product manager in the catering industry
Market Manager
Development coordinator
Communications Manager
Researcher
Trainer

Doctoral studies Students with a Master's degree can go on to study for a doctorate (bac +8) in a research area defined with a thesis director.

Profile of the applicant

The Master 1 in Social Sciences Applied to Food is open to students who have completed a third year of a Bachelor's degree in the field of Human and Social Sciences (Sociology, Anthropology, Management, Law, etc.) in Catering, Nutrition, Dietetics, Agri-food, Economics, and who can provide proof of professional experience in the field (internships, temporary or seasonal jobs, etc.). The Master 2 in Social Sciences Applied to Food is open to students holding a Master 1 in the field of Human and Social Sciences (Sociology, Anthropology, Management, Law, etc.), Food Service, Nutrition, Dietetics, Agri-food, Economics, and who can provide proof of professional experience in the field (internships, temporary or seasonal employment, etc.).

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