Are you in Food Science and Technology? Here is your Teaching workload for the academic year (2017/18)

By Christophe Habimana

The journey becomes easier and enjoyable when the plan or the map of the destination is held within the palms of the hands of the traveler. The same scenario goes to students having their courses Teaching Workload.

This does not only help students to make their research on modules so earlier, it also helps to prioritize the concentration to invest on certain class work and activities, depending on credits certain modules may have.

It is therefore, in that context, as a devoted Food Science and Technology Student, you should know the Teaching Workload (according to the year in which you are) of your courses, so as to even know which courses will be expected to have been retained or covered after you finish your academic year.

Since we start to study Food Science per se, in the Second Year; herewith are attached the Teaching Workloads of all the years (Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4) for this academic year of 2017/18, as provided with.

• FST Program Year 2 (2017/18): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FrWhJNLrH20RfuqZX35W-dH_09chIWqS/view?usp=sharing
• FST Program Year 3 (2017/18): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RhpZy7ftiM6eJLuQlI9v-ezcPEJ0Np6J/view?usp=sharing
• FST Program Year 4 (2017/18): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MvWZFqienDLaRgk7NB_T9m2PHKTj67mP/view?usp=sharing

“Mtchaka-Mtchaka for Food Science and Technology” at Busogo Campus has instigated the Mass Sport Establishment in the Campus

By Christophe Habimana and Sandrine Umuhoza


It is often known that coldness favors sleeping, allowing the blanket to engulf the whole of us and then say it is warm enough to stay bound with the bed cover in a snoring (sometimes). The reverse was truly proven today by a tremendously organized mass sport by students in Food Science and Technology in all years.


It was a sport event entitled Mtchaka-Mtchaka for FST whose main aim was to unify students in Food Science and Technology to further know each other and strengthen the bond tying their relationship as well as welcoming new students (from Year Two) in the ever growing society of Food Science and Technology.

It should have been held last week but due to some unexpected inconveniences the event was postponed to today (November 5, 2017). Participants were expected to meet at the basketball ground for gathering and rise together heading outside the campus. They have come one by one, whereby at 06:15’AM sharp, the group was singing encouraging and motivating rhymes for the activity.

 

An invitation announcing the event

The group has gone running from Busogo campus and has made its about turn at the Gataraga suburb heading back again to the campus. Reaching at the campus they made some warm-up sports to stretch the muscles and reuse their articulations which followed by an acquainting session by introducing themselves to each other.


It is through introducing ourselves to each other that we have been surprisingly aware that we were privileged to be with Mr. Hubert BIZIMANA, the Director of Career and Employability in CAEVM, Busogo campus. He elucidated how relieved and heartened he has been, by finding a group that will help him in his routinely sport of Sunday which he has called Sunday sport.


“I’m also a newcomer at Busogo since I’m from Kayonza. But I am a sport lover. I am heartened to hear that there is a group of students in this campus that will help me returning in my usual mood of sport and I will delightfully cooperate”. Mr. Bizimana reported.


The splendor of his passion was proven by the way he has promptly joined the mass sport by instantly reacting as he has, himself said “I was awake and heard a group of people singing songs that I know well to be sung during the mass sport. By moving curtains of my window aside, I found it was you (students) and immediately without a second thought decided to put on my sport clothes and follow you”.


Since sport is one of his duties as the Director of career and employability, he mentioned, he is going to establish a sport club which will have a Sunday sport program as the mass sport for the campus and that it will be for the whole campus (which is a good initiative).


This will continue in the FST students since it is their routine also from the 2015 by the class of 2014/18 (the eldest now) by the sport committee headed by Mr. Ismael MUGARAGU and ON THEIR SHOULDERS Show committee. The unison in this activity from us and our colleagues in other departments will import much as today also some students from crop science were there with us.


The atmosphere was also conducive and the climate was cooperative today since the rain droplets were still captured by their clouds (a proof that God had approved this mass sport). We thank so much students from both years of Food Science and Technology, students from Crop Science and everyone who played any part so as this activity to be successfully implemented.

 

Fst students heading to Gataraga Suburb, headed by Ismael Mugaragu 

 

Fst Students heading back to the Campus 

 

Taking a picture of memory for the day

BACKGROUND OF ON THEIR SHOULDERS SHOW

What is ON THEIR SHOULDERS SHOW?

On their shoulders show is the platform SHOW that hosts inspiration media, specifically for students in Food Science and Technology by sharing testimonies and experiences with people in food related business or entities/enterprises. 

It was established to motivate the students in Food Science and generally embodies inviting people in the field of (or related to) Food Science and Technology to come and inspire the food science students still at the university so as to foresee the prevailing situation and decide on how to usefully make their profession. For, all the four years spent at university would mean something reliable for the career pursuit.

Birth of the show

Truthfully; many of the students in Food Science were not motivated and satisfied with the course they were studying. Albeit they were all admitted to study Food Science And Technology, only few students had applied for it before and only a few knew even what was it all about. It seemed to be not feeling at home with the situation, despite all the time elapsed being in the class, following different class sessions, working on various assignments and continuous assessment tests.

Things were not to stay so. Some of the students looked at how to deal with the situation so as to come out with a benefiting solution for all the classmates. The solution would not only influence the mindset on Food Science And Technology in students, but also the way lecturers, the staff members of the department and the entire School Of Food Science and Technology in the system of interaction in the academic aspect. 

Students would not leave for other course departments; it was too late for that. The only way was to continue the way forward but this time, with a new view and perception. That is where and when the idea of searching the source of the motivation and inspiration came from. A project proposal was presented to the staff members and after the checking and corrections as well as all necessary modifications, a program of inviting people to inspire food science students was established. 

Since students would stand on the shoulders of those giants to see far (as Newton quotes in his popular quote); hence the name ON THEIR SHOULDERS. And it would be carried out as a SHOW, which finally gave birth to the appellation ON THEIR SHOULDERS SHOW (OTS SHOW).

Volunteering students immediately made an organizing team to implement what was said in the proposal aforementioned. It started with inviting lecturers to share their biography and later evolved with inviting industry managers, CEOs and founders of various entities to come and share their testimonies and experiences.

Effect and current situation

Currently; the way is clear now for many of the students as everyone now understands how Food Science and Technology is vitally needed in the daily life, how nothing can be done by everyone without food and that only professional dealers in food stuffs and the science behind could manage the case. It even led to have dreams on pursuing their career in Food Science.

Students coming in YEAR ONE, are warmly welcomed in the ever growing world of Food Science initiated by their elders (Class 2014-18). For, the earlier the guideline is established, the better the future is prepared and the lesser regret is likely to occur. 

And the most amazing part of the story is that NO LONGER REGRETS OF BEING ORIENTED IN FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, THE MAJORITY IS PROUD OF BEING WHERE THEY ARE NOW. With The Almighty God’s hand, success will pursue ON THEIR SHOULDERS SHOW.

The trend

The academic year 2017/18 started with the shifting of all food science and technology students (from Year 2 of course) at BUSOGO Campus. the new environment seems to be a welcoming one as the shifting will not disintegrate what had had been achieved, rather circumstances will strengthen the bond and the progress of the show. We hope to explore the opportunities found at Busogo Campus in building ourselves.