BSc Nutrition(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

1. Explain the role of diet in maintaining health and wellbeing throughout different stages of the human lifecycle, including the determinants of dietary intake at different stages and the methods and tools that can be used to assess nutritional status.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of cell biology and molecular nutrition and their relationship with macro and micronutrient metabolism and the physiological aspects of nutrient demand.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between diet and physical activity in determining nutrient and energy balance, and the physiological and psychological determinants of food intake, appetite and satiety.
4. Explain the nature of theories of nutrition health education and behaviour change and how these may be applied in the design, implementation and communication of public health messaging and interventions aimed at improving health.
5. Explain the hierarchy of research evidence, including the application of qualitative and quantitative research methods to the generation of the robust evidence-base that informs nutrition recommendations and policy.

Skills Learning Outcomes
Students will have developed and acquired skills in the following categories, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
1. Work Ready Skills
2. Academic Skills
3. Digital Skills
4. Sustainability Skills
5. Subject Specific Technical Skills

Assessment

The assessments at level 2 build on the knowledge and skills gained at level 1 and start to build a portfolio of knowledge and key transferable skills relevant to future career pathways within the subject discipline. Assessments have a range of formats in accordance with the learning and skills outcomes of the modules specified at this level in the programme.