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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Packaging Science, BS
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Program Description
The Bachelor of Science degree in Packaging Science prepares students for careers in industries producing and utilizing packages for all types of products. Packaging is an essential part of industrialized economies, protecting, preserving, and helping to market products. The field of packaging is highly competitive and highly innovative, requiring an ever-increasing number of professional positions.
Opportunities for employment include a wide variety of career paths such as manufacturing, research and development, marketing, sales, design, purchasing, quality assurance, and customer services. Most career opportunities are in positions requiring technical knowledge combined with marketing and management skills.
The core curriculum assures graduates of having the skills and knowledge required by most entry-level packaging positions. Breadth requirement choices or minors allow students to select courses to improve career preparation for specific industry segments, including: Distribution, Transportation and Engineering Technology; Food and Health Care Packaging; Materials; and Package Design and Graphics. Any University-approved minor may be completed (all required credits) in lieu of the breadth requirement.
Students changing majors into Packaging Science with 24 credits or more must:
- have an overall minimum GPA of 2.0; and
- have completed four of the following courses with an average GPA of 2.5: BIOL 1030 , BIOL 1040 , CH 1010 , CH 1020 , MATH 1060 , PHYS 1220 , PHYS 2070 , PHYS 2080 , PHYS 2210 ; or both MATH 1040 and MATH 1070 ; and
- have completed PKSC 1020 with a grade of C or higher.
Academic Program Fee
Please visit https://www.clemson.edu/cafls/food-nutrition-packaging-sciences/students/undergraduate.html for detailed information about the departmental Academic Program Fee.
Combined Bachelor of Science/Master of Science Degree Program
The Department of Food, Nutrition and Packaging Sciences also offers an accelerated five-year combined bachelor’s/master’s program that allows students to count up to twelve hours of graduate credit toward both the BS degree in Packaging Science and the MS degree in Packaging Science. Details are available from the Department of Food, Nutrition and Packaging Sciences or at www.clemson.edu/fnps.
Second Semester
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Footnotes
1 BIOL 1110 may be substituted for BIOL 1030 and BIOL 1050 .
2 Packaging Science majors are required to:
- Complete FNPS 3680 , PKSC 1020 , PKSC 2010 , PKSC 2020 , PKSC 2040 , PKSC 2060 , and PKSC 2200 with a grade of C or better before being allowed to register for PKSC 4010 , PKSC 4030 , PKSC 4040 , PKSC 4050, PKSC 4160 , PKSC 4200 , PKSC 4300 , PKSC 4400 , PKSC 4540 , and PKSC 4640 .
- Earn a C or better in all PKSC courses in order to graduate
3 See General Education Requirements . Three of these credits must also satisfy the South Carolina REACH Act Requirement. See the South Carolina REACH Act Requirement in the Academic Regulations section.
4 Students interested in minors or electives should take any prerequisites in the sophomore year.
5 CH 2230 and CH 2270 may be substituted for CH 2010 and CH 2020 .
6 PHYS 1220 and PHYS 1240 may be substituted for PHYS 2070 and PHYS 2090 .
7 PKSC 2040 and PKSC 2060 must be taken concurrently. PKSC 4040 and PKSC 4540 must be taken concurrently. PKSC 4030 and PKSC 4200 must be taken concurrently.
8 Select 15 credits from ACCT 2010 , AGM 2050 , AGM 4060 , AGM 4600 , BCHM 3050 , BIOE 2010 , BIOE 3020 , BIOE 3200 , BIOE 4010 , BIOL 1040 /BIOL 1060 , BIOL 2220 , CHE 3190 , ECON 3140 , ECON 3190 , ENR 4290 , EES 2010 , EES 2020 , ENSP 2000 , ENSP 4000 , FDSC 4010 , FDSC 4020 , FDSC 4040 , FNPS 2140 , GC 3460 , GC 4060 , GC 4070 , GC 4510 , LAW 3220 , MATH 1080 , MATH 2060 , MGT 2010 , MGT 3170 , MGT 3030 , MGT 4240 , MICR 3050 , MICR 4070 , MKT 3010 , MKT 3020 , MSE 2100 , MSE 3190 , PHYS 2080 , PHYS 2100 , PHYS 2210 , PHYS 2230 , PKSC 4210 , PKSC 4220 , PKSC 4230 , PKSC 4240 , PKSC 4990 , PKSC 8080, and STAT 8010. Any University-approved minor may be completed (all required credits) in lieu of the breadth requirement.
9 At least one 15-week period of 40 hour weeks of Cooperative Education is required. A six-month period is preferred. Two 10-week summer periods of 40 hour weeks with the same company is an option.
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