2016/17 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

PSYC5642M Food and Health

15 creditsClass Size: 40

Module manager: Professor Louise Dye
Email: l.dye@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2016/17

Pre-requisite qualifications

As MSc Psychological Approaches to Health

Module replaces

PSYC5641 Eating, Physical Activity and Health

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

On completion of this module, students will develop a detailed and critical understanding of contemporary issues relating to the psychology of food and health, and will examine the complex ways in which food and psychological health can be understood. Students will learn to integrate a number of different approaches to the study of this area (including biological, experimental, and clinical). Furthermore, they will be supported in considering the ways in which the psychology of food and health can be translated into psychological interventions.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module students should be able to draw effectively on a wide range of psychological theory and empirical research to explain the relationship between food and health issues; appreciate the different psychological perspectives taken up in psychology on this topic; formulate, justify and present recommendations for interventions within the field of nutrition and psychology; identify and critically discuss the pertinent issues in the application of psychological theory to real-world concerns in the area of nutrition.

Syllabus

The course will examine:

1. Stress and eating - Professor Mark Conner
2. Diet and cognitive function/decline - Professor Louise Dye
3. Obesity: a) children - Professor Marion Hetherington; b) adults - Dr Graham Finlayson
4. Talk about food: a discursive perspective - Dr Siobhan Hugh-Jones
5. Epidemiological research on diet and health - Darren Dahly/Janet Cade

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Group learning	2	2.00	4.00
Lecture	9	2.00	18.00
Private study hours			128.00
Total Contact hours			22.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Private study

10 hours reading per lecture x 8 = 80 hours
24 hours preparation for each short report x 2 = 48 hours

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Some support will be offered in weeks 3 and 7 for progress monitoring in preparation for the submission of the reports. Also each report acts as a form of progress monitoring.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Report	500-1,000 words	25.00
Report	500-1,000 words	25.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		50.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	1 hr 30 mins	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		50.00

Exam will be a combination of MCQ and short answers to cover all the material taught. The two problem based learning tasks require students to apply material from lectures to two practical problems and are short written pieces completed during the course (hand-in week 4 and week 8).

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 06/01/2016

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