Global Nutrition PG (11497.1)

This unit involves deep consideration of complex global nutrition issues. Students will be expected to transfer knowledge and skills developed in earlier nutrition units to critically consider current and emerging challenges including malnutrition, nutrition in transition populations environmental impact of food systems, food sustainability and wicked nutrition problems.

This unit will be co-taught with 11577 Global Nutrition (UG).

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Critically analyse factors contributing to selected global nutrition issues;
2. Critically analyse strategies for addressing selected global nutrition issues;
3. Research and apply established theories to formulate approaches to address global nutrition issues; and
4. Interpret and transmit ideas for the implementation of new approaches to address selected global nutrition issues to specialist and non-specialist audiences.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - evaluate and adopt new technology
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - apply their knowledge to working with Indigenous Australians in socially just ways

Skills development

This unit involves deep consideration of complex global nutrition issues. Students will be expected to transfer knowledge and skills developed in earlier nutrition units to critically consider current and emerging challenges including malnutrition, nutrition in transition populations environmental impact of food systems, food sustainability and wicked nutrition problems.

Prerequisites

8258 Nutritional Science G

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

8381 Food Health and Environment PG and 8664 International Nutrition PG

Assumed knowledge

None.