Human Nutrition

Programme Structure

Core Teaching (80 credits)

The core teaching provides an excellent grounding in nutrition given in the form of lectures, practical sessions, debates, team work tasks, self-directed learning, seminars and tutorials.  Much of the teaching takes place two days per week, however this is an intensive full time course and students are expected to engage with self-directed learning on the other days of the week.

Courses include:

• Food and Nutrient Requirements and Nutrition through the life cycle
• Digestion and Absorption and Nutritional Metabolism
• Dietary and Nutritional Assessment
• Public Health Nutrition and Eating Behaviour

Specialisation Course (40 credits)
Students choose one of:

• Public Health Nutrition
• Clinical Nutrition
• Sports & Exercise Nutrition
• Obesity and Weight Management

As part of their specialisation, all students complete a taught course and research proposal.

Research Project (60 credits)

Subject to satisfactory results, students progress on to a research project in the area of their specialisation.  The project is presented as a written report in the form of a scientific paper for assessment in August and may also provide the basis for publication and presentation at scientific meetings.
 
Transferable Skills

This programme includes a range of training in transferable skills.

• Learning techniques
• Communication
• Presentation
• Literature searching
• Academic journal review
• Statistics and data handling

Students are also included in our academic research seminars which give them access to expert researchers across a wide range of topics related to nutrition.