Labs are chem based and are fun but overall, the subject is all over the place. The tutor was a phd student which is usually the case for a lot of subjects but she was so unprepared it was ridiculous. The lab instructors had differing opinions on the same question. Instructions for assignments, especially the lab report was unclear and contradict the examples shown. When you have to email the head teacher about every detail in the instructions you know it's a bad subject. Overall, when I enrolled in the subject, it felt like it was their first time running it, but they've been doing this for years I'm sure. Worst subject I've ever taken. STAY AWAY IF YOU'RE NOT A FOOD SCIENCE MAJOR

terrible subject, don't do it if you don't have to

This is the core subject for Food science major so I was excited for it and expected a lot better, but turns out that it is the worst subject ever. Unorganized, boring and badly coordinated. The instructions for lab report are very poor, the results are also very confusing with lots of incomplete data and the lecturer didn't even bother to correct them so students basically had to work everything out by themselves. The fact that this subject is very unorganized makes it very hard, especially for international students who had to study online. Students want to ask questions as they want to do well for this subject, but most of the time when emailing the lecturer, he didn't really answer the question and if he answered it'll be something like "Check the discussion again" or "Apparently...". I do respect the lecturer but I think this subject needs a huge improvement and it could be a lot better.

Honestly the worst subject I've ever taken in unimelb (but sadly a core). Lectures are boring, lecturer adds pointless unnecessary detail that makes everything confusing. For the lab report we weren't given written/ explicit instructions so everything was a guessing game. Even emailed the lecturer asking for instructions but all he answered was "just discuss it".. Lecturer always urged us to ask questions but would exasperatedly answer them, saying he's already mentioned it before (happens 90% of the time). He would also ask questions in the lectures and if they weren't 100% what he wanted to hear (like if you mentioned half a point) he would just say that you're wrong. After Week 5 my lectures were online but the lecturer didn't even bother giving us proper lectures so all we got were past years' lectures filled with loads of background noise and irrelevant student questions. We also weren't given supplementary lab during online classes, 0 Lab content and just given random data that aren't in the lab manual.

Dry, boring subject. Hard to score unless you're good with chemistry. Lectures don't cover practical content.