Nutrition and Dietetics
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff points: 32
About this course
BSc (Hons) with Foundation Year in Nutrition. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Communication & Writing, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Human Behaviour. The foundation year is taught alongside students from other allied health professions such as Occupational Therapy, Paramedic Science, Nursing, and Physiotherapy. The course includes multiple practice-based learning placements and a final-year research dissertation.
Modules
- Essential Skills for Learning in Healthcare
- Science for Healthcare
- Health and Wellbeing in Today’s Society
- Becoming a Healthcare Professional
- Introduction to Dietetic Practice
- Principles of Food: Science, Production and Provision
- Behaviour Change and Communication Skills for Dietitians
- Nutrition Physiology and Metabolism
- Foundations for Professional Practice
- Health and Wellbeing
- Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology
- Clinical Dietetics 1
- Clinical Dietetics 2
- Dietary Management and Prevention of Disease
- Applied Dietetics in Pregnancy and Paediatrics
- Teamworking for Professional Practice
- Research Methods: Developing the Evidence
- Clinical Reasoning and Ethical Decision Making in Dietetic Practice
- Public Health and Health Promotion
- Leadership for Professional Practice
- Enhancing Employability
- Generating the Evidence (Dissertation)
- Consolidating Dietetic Practice