Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin

Packaging, B.S.


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Packaging, B.S.: 4-year sequence    

Introduction

A packaging career today requires a thorough knowledge of materials, methods, design concepts, marketing, logistics, and machinery to develop and produce the packages that protect and preserve a product, help market the product and instruct the consumer in its proper use.

UW-Stout’s Bachelor of Science degree program in Packaging prepares students for technical or management responsibilities in the packaging industry to meet these needs. The program places strong emphasis on the application of theory to strengthen problem solving abilities and challenges students by providing opportunities to solve “real” packaging industry problems in classroom/laboratory settings.

The trend in the packaging industry is to hire employees who can function in more than one area at career entry. UW-Stout’s Packaging program recognizes this trend by offering the student several “emphasis” options which include course and laboratory work beyond the technical core of the program. 

With the quantity and variety of products produced in the world, it is easy to understand that packaging is a dynamic multibillion dollar industry in need of well-educated men and women. Graduates of the program are positioned advantageously for entry into the expanding and evolving packaging industry, as well as for further studies in the field of packaging.

General Requirements
Bachelor of Science Degree

Total for graduation 120 credits  
Stout Core 44 credits  
Major Studies 70 credits  
Emphasis Area 6 credits  
GPA Requirement 2.6 minimum  

Program Requirements


Stout Core (44 credits)


Analytic Reasoning and Natural Sciences (12 credits)


Arts and Humanities (6 credits)


Social Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning (3 credits)


Courses must be selected from the list of approved social responsibility and ethical reasoning courses.

Electives to reach 44 Stout Core credits


Students must also take courses with the following designations:


Racial and Ethnic Studies (2 courses)


Global Perspective (2 courses)


Emphasis Areas (6-8 credits)


Select one of the 6 credit emphasis areas below to meet the 120 credit degree requirement.  Students have the option of selecting more than one emphasis area and/or emphaisis areas requiring more than 6 credits.

Food Technology (8 credits)


International Studies (6 credits)


Course plan must be approved by packaging Program Director.