OENOLOGY 7004WT - Wine Packaging and Quality Management
Waite Campus - Semester 2 - 2024
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General Course Information
Course Details
Course Code OENOLOGY 7004WT Course Wine Packaging and Quality Management Coordinating Unit Wine Science Term Semester 2 Level Postgraduate Coursework Location/s Waite Campus Units 3 Contact Up to 6 hours per week Available for Study Abroad and Exchange Y Prerequisites OENOLOGY 7010WT and OENOLOGY 7047WT. Wine Business students can enrol without pre-requisite Assessment Practicals, reports, written assignments & exams Course Staff
Course Coordinator: Dr Richard Muhlack
Course Timetable
The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.
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Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
1 Demonstate an awareness of the physical and chemical properties of packaging materials and how these affect the 'shelf life' of wine. 2 Understand the principals of filling machines and make correct decisions in matching filling machine types to particular wine types 3 Demonstrate an awareness of modern packaging materials & products including containers, closures & bottle decorations. 4 Understand how to prepare a wine for final packaging and have an awareness of how to treat difficult or problem wines prior to packaging. 5 Understand how modern bottling lines are prepared, operated, monitored and shutdown. 6 Understand how taints can be caused in wine, how agrochemical maximum residue limits are derived for wine and how taint contaminants and agrochemical residues are assayed in wine 7 Understand and accept quality management disciplines, techniques and attitudes and how they apply and are increasingly being applied to the wine industry. University Graduate Attributes
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:
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Learning Resources
Online Learning
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Learning & Teaching Activities
Learning & Teaching Modes
Lectures and practicals.
Students unable to attend face to face will be offered online alternatives.Workload
The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
A full-time student should expect to spend, on average, a total of 48 hours per week on
their studies. This includes both the formal contact time required to the course (e.g.
lectures, tutorials, practicals), as well as non-contact time (e.g. reading and revision).
For a 3-unit course, the expected workload would be, on average, 12 hours per week.Learning Activities Summary
Week Lecture Topic Presenter Practical Class
1Course introduction; Introduction to HACCP PG No practical Quality management systems PG 2 No lectures (ASVO Mildura Seminar) SC Practical: Tartaric acid QC (PG & SC) 3 Quality Management systems: application in the wine industry Guest Practical: Commerical acceptablity of wine: tasting and presentation (SC) Continuous improvement Guest
4Quality accreditation and accurate measurement PG Practical: Packaging line observations and recommendations (PG & SC) Interface between QM & regulatory requirements PG 5 Preparing wine for bottling PG Field Trip: O-I Asia Pacific Introduction to bottle filling Guest 6 Bottling line design PG Field Trip: Portavin Glass and bottle manufacture PG 7 Labelling technology Field Trip: Cork Supply/Studio Labels (PG) Cork – physical & chemical properties; production 8 Soft-pack technology Practical: Bottling – red and white wines (SC) Screw cap technology 9 Oxygen in wine development in bottle & alternative closures Guest Field Trip: O-I Asia Pacific 10 Packaging & winemaking Guest Practical: Cork QC 11 Packaging as a marketing tool Guest Field Trip Taints and troubles with corks PG 12 Packaging innovation assigment assessment Guest Practical:Taints tasting (SC) -
Assessment
The University's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:
- Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
- Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
- Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
- Assessment must maintain academic standards.
Assessment Summary
Assessment Task Task Type Due Weighting Hurdle Learning Outcome HACCP Packaging line observations and recommendations Formative & Summative Week 8 25% No 1,2,3 Packaging Innovation Assignment Summative Week 12 25% No 1,2,3,4,5 Final Exam Summative Exam Period Semester 2 50% No 1-7 Assessment Detail
Assessment Task Due Weighting HACCP Packaging line observations and recommendations: 1500 word individual report which outlines a proposed HACCP plan for the bottling equipment located in the Hickinbotham Wine Science Laboratory. Observation and recommendations need to be included in the report including flow chart, hazard analysis, identification of critical control points, suggestions for critical limits/monitoring procedures/corrective actions. Week 8
25% Packaging Innovation Poster (25%): A group assignment desribing an innovation in relation to wine packaging, materials, equipement or process. Student will work in pairs to develop and present a poster outlining this innovation. Posters will be assessed in class by staff and peers. Week 12 25% Final Exam (50%) : 2 hour exam covering all course material Exam Period Semester 2 50% Submission
- HACCP Packaging line observation and recommendations assignments are to be submitted via MyUni. All assignments are processed via Turnitin.
Course Grading
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme) Grade Mark Description FNS Fail No Submission F 1-49 Fail P 50-64 Pass C 65-74 Credit D 75-84 Distinction HD 85-100 High Distinction CN Continuing NFE No Formal Examination RP Result Pending Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.
Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.
Final results for this course will be made available through Access Adelaide.
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