Bachelor of Health Science in Nutrition

Edith Cowan University

This major complements many other disciplines and is suited to students who aspire to be employed as a community or corporate nutritionist offering general nutrition advice for employment in public health and health promotion rolesThe major provides practical sciencebased knowledge about nutrients and the nonnutrient substances in food the assessment of nutritional status nutritional needs during the lifecycle community nutrition issues the psychology and sociology of food habits and current controversies in nutrition Students undertaking this major should undertake a second major in Health Promotion Addiction Studies or Occupational Safety and HealthLearning OutcomesApply broad human nutrition knowledge to a range of theoretical and practical health and nutrition science situationsThink critically to analyse interpret and conceptualise complex health and nutrition problemsThink creatively to anticipate challenges and generate health and nutrition science solutionsUse digital technologies numeracy and food literacies to access evaluate and synthesise relevant information from multiple sourcesCommunicate health and nutrition science knowledge and uphold values in a range of community and professional contextsDemonstrate global perspectives and diverse cultural competenceWork collaboratively and demonstrate initiative to implement social sustainable and ethical nutritional and health science valuesDemonstrate autonomy and accountability for own learning and selfreflective professional practice

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