CLINICAL NUTRITION BSC

ABOUT THE COURSE

The key role of diet in prevention and management of metabolic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases suggests the need for nutrition experts who clearly understand the link between nutrition and disease. Our Clinical Nutrition course focuses on the prevention and management of diseases in individual and population levels. You will acquire a deep understanding of the role of nutrition in the etiology, pathophysiology and development of clinical conditions and would be highly skilled in a number of practical laboratory and research areas relevant to these conditions. This degree is ideal for those who would like to become professional nutritionists working in laboratories, research and clinical settings, or progress to further studies in the areas of dietetics or human nutrition research.

The Clinical Nutrition degree will be mapped against the core competencies of the Association for Nutrition (as required for the accreditation). You will be taught in our new Health Sciences building, which features specialist laboratories dedicated to nutrition, comprising purpose-built food and nutrition laboratories that fit into areas of clinical nutrition, nutritional biochemistry and food science.

You will learn from a highly committed team of research-active registered nutritionists who will be supported by medical practitioners and healthcare professionals, aiming to bring interdisciplinary and broad understanding of clinical conditions required for student learning.

COURSE STRUCTURE
Teaching on this degree is structured into lectures, where all students are taught together, seminars of smaller groups of around 15-20 students, and tutorials which typically have no more than 10 students. You also have the opportunity to have a one-to-one meeting with your tutor each week.

If you study Nutrition as a Single Honours degree, in your first year of study there are approximately 12 teaching hours each week, which reduces to approximately 10 hours in your second and third years.

On top of teaching hours, you are also expected to spend approximately 18 hours studying independently each week, as well as group study to prepare for any group assessments you may have.