Overview
Contribute to a more equitable world through better food production and supply, with a Bachelor of Human Nutrition.
This health-focused degree gives you a solid foundation in nutrition, food, and related science subjects.
The Bachelor of Human Nutrition commences with a broad discipline base of 8 core units in nutrition, food and related sciences. In your second and third year you'll progress to more targeted study, acquiring further specialist knowledge and skills, by choosing a specialisation from the following:
- Biomedical Nutrition (minor)
- Public Health Nutrition (minor)
- Exercise and Nutrition (minor).
This will allow you to broaden and enrich your learning, diversifying employment opportunities, and enabling you to successfully compete in professional settings within the community nutrition and public health sector and/or pursue postgraduate study.
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Describe and integrate the science underpinning food and nutrition across populations and food systems;
- Critically review, analyse and synthesise current scientific literature related to food, nutrition and health using a wide evidence base;
- Evaluate evidence to investigate and propose solutions to contemporary, emerging and future-oriented food and nutrition issues;
- Effectively communicate food and nutritional science at an appropriate level with both specialist and non-specialist individuals and groups; using written, oral and technology-based techniques appropriately;
- Contextualise the role of culture, values, ethics and economic, social, regulatory and environmental factors in developing solutions to food and nutrition problems; and
- Apply a broad knowledge base and solid foundations in scientific design and experimental methods to analyse predictable, unpredictable and sometimes complex problems, for the development of more equitable and sustainable global nutrition and food systems.
We offer extensive practical and industry experience. You'll complete a workplace or research-based project in your final year.
You'll also take part in:
- industry visits
- laboratory exercises
- computer simulations
- case studies
- interaction with community nutrition initiatives
- industry-based projects.
Choose a career in the diverse food and nutrition industries, or undertake post-graduate study to specialise further:
- Master of Teaching (Secondary Education) to work as a science teacher (take the Analytical Chemistry minor)
- Postgraduate dietetics programs to work as a dietitian (take the Biomedical Nutrition Minor); refer to the individual university entry requirements.
