Complete Course Outline
Course: Master of Nutrition (771AA)
Award: Master of Nutrition
Course Level: 04
Faculty: Faculty of Health
University Admissions Centre (UAC) Course Code: 882825
CRICOS Code: 053782D
Offered Locations and Delivery Modes:
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UC Bruce Campus
- Full Time, Face-to-Face - Convener: Prof Lauren Williams (Ph: +61 2 6206 8709)
- Part Time, Face-to-Face - Convener: Prof Lauren Williams (Ph: +61 2 6206 8709)
Introduction
The Master of Nutrition provides students with an advanced program in nutrition. The range of nutrition and food-related units from graduate level nutrition units to advanced specialist units and research opportunities provides for a diversity of graduates from biomedical and nutrition sciences to develop a program of study tailored to their professional development needs. Students may, for example, choose to include in their study program a focus on a nutrition specialty area, such as sports nutrition and physical activity or public health nutrition, with a focus on health promotion or issues around food and the environment; or develop research skills and undertake a research project. The course is designed for students who are, or intend to work, in environments relating to food, nutrition or health.
Course Requirements
48 credit points as set out below:
(a) Required (24 credit points) as follows:
6469 Epidemiology and Principles of Research PG
8249 Community and Public Health Nutrition PG
8381 Food, Health and the Environment PG
6554 Introduction to Statistics G *
6486 Research Planning PG
8260 Research Project in Allied Health PG **
7683 Foundations of Community Development PG
8664 International Nutrition PG
* Students may choose an elective if they have satisfactorily passed a statistics unit within 5 years prior to enrolling in this course.
** Students may choose to study 8261 Research Project in Allied Health PG (6cp) in lieu of this unit, counted as 3 credit points required units and 3 credit point restricted choice.
(b) Restricted choice (18 credit points) as follows:
18 credit points chosen from the following list:
8362 Human Growth and Development G
8722 Sports Nutrition PG
7678 Sustainable Futures PG
8365 Health, Disease and Exercise G
8362 Human Growth and Development G
7677 Contemporary Health Development PG
6476 Nutrition, Society and Health G
6530 Biochemistry
6532 Human Physiology and the Lifecycle
8254 Nutrition Across the Lifecycle G
6518 Human Biochemistry
8251 Food Science
8258 Nutritional Science G
8256 Nutrition and Disease G
8659 Public Health Nutrition Internship PG (6cp)
8261 Research Project in Allied Health PG (6cp) *
* Cannot enrol in this unit in addition to the 3 credit point 8260 Research Project in Allied Health PG
(c) Open electives (6 credit points) as follows:
6 credit points chosen from any of the restricted choice units or from any other units at G or PG level with the approval of the course convener. Students may select G or PG level units from relevant multi-disciplinary areas that form a coherent study plan (eg in marketing, health promotion, clinical trials management etc).
Students who have studied any of the units listed above at undergraduate level in other courses may be exempted from these units, but are required to study elective units approved by the course convener.
Typical Course Structure
| Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
| YEAR 1 | |
| 6554 Introduction to Statistics G * | 6486 Research Planning PG |
| 8249 Community and Public Health Nutrition PG | 8381 Food, Health and the Environment PG |
| 6469 Epidemiology and Principles of Research PG | Restricted choice unit |
| Elective | Restricted choice unit |
| YEAR 2 | |
| 8260 Research Project in Allied Health PG | 8664 International Nutrition PG |
| Restricted choice unit | 7683 Foundations of Community Development PG |
| Restricted choice unit | Restricted choice unit |
| Elective | Restricted choice unit |
Course Duration
Standard four semesters full-time or equivalent. Maximum twelve semesters.
Admission Requirements
Applicants must meet normal University requirements for admission to a master's degree course or hold qualifications deemed by the University to be equivalent. Applicants should also have satisfactorily completed the equivalent of a full year of human physiology and biochemistry and at least two nutrition units.
Additional admission requirement:
An overall Academic IELTS band score of 7.0 with no component less than 6.
Additional requirements:
Police checks will be required if 8659 Public Health Nutrition Internship PG is chosen as a restricted choice unit.
Approved Credit arrangements.
Students are not permitted to undertake more than 12 credit points of cross-institutional studies. Approval to undertake cross institutional units that are available at UC with a similar curriculum and content will not be granted, except in exceptional circumstances. Students are advised to seek course advice and permission from the course convener prior to negotiating or organising cross institutional studies at another University.
Subsumable awards
The following awards are exit awards: Graduate Certificate in Human Nutrition and Graduate Diploma in Human Nutrition.
Course Enquiries
Students should seek course advice from the course convener. Further assistance may be sought from the Faculty of Health.