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Course Aim
Food, Nutrition and Health is always in the news. Health promotion is particularly important as we strive to deal with nutritional trends and the challenges they present.
This part-time course is designed to develop the knowledge and understanding of the link between food, nutrition and health.
Course content
The course is comprised of six core units and six optional units selected from the additional units list.
Core units
- Food microbiology
- Health promotion
- Human nutrition
- Introductory science for food technologists
- Quality assurance
- Sports nutrition
Additional units
- Consumer behaviour
- Diet and health
- Food and the media
- Food chemistry
- Food in society
- Food product development
- Food safety
- Food science for the technician
- Human anatomy and physiology
- ICT and food management information systems
- Introduction to food manufacture
- Operational management
- Using your senses
Career destinations
The course has been designed to meet the needs of industry and society, preparing students for careers at supervisory level in food and nutrition related industries. A range of jobs is available including quality controllers, laboratory technicians or product development technologists.
Student View: Yvonne Neill
“With my experience in the health care sector I really wanted to find out more about how food and nutrition relate to health. Some of the units we’ve studied have been really thought provoking!” This course is perfect, allowing me to study one day per week for a qualification that I’ll find really useful.”
