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Study undergraduate health & medical science online with La Trobe University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

Study nutrition as a science as well as a crucial part of wellbeing. Work towards a career as a nutritionist in a range of sectors. Graduate with the opportunity to move into Dietetics, and register with the Nutrition Society of Australia.

Bachelor of Food and Nutrition

Introduction to Human Physiology

Introduction to Nutrition

Individual Determinants of Health

Culture, Health and Healing

Biosciences Technology and Society

Drugs, Governance and Modern Society

Empires, Power and the Modern World: Food as History

Social Determinants of Health

Examine the way the respiratory, renal, endocrine and gastrointestinal systems steer and control the way the human body functions. Identify and unravel real health conditions that affect and change the way the body operates and performs.

Advanced Systems Physiology B

Study eating patterns and measure how diet, body mass and types of food can prevent or contribute to disease. Discover how a diet rich in nutritional value reduces risks to human health, and helps people to live longer.

Nutritional Epidemiology and Research Skills

Unwrap the rich relationship people have with food and what influences food use, choice and preferences. Learn how the role of food has transformed in society. Understand why people are impacted by trends, and need to know where their food comes from.

Society, Food Habits and Consumption

Prepare for a career rich in sharing nutrition information. Learn how people’s lifestyles and the food they eat impacts on the quality and length of life. Then, transform your learnings into sessions with materials, customised to your varied audiences.

Nutrition Education for Adults

Gain skills to research, develop and refine practice-related questions. Create database search systems to find and use evidence. Assess the strength of evidence in practice. Consider and measure performance as an evidence-based practitioner.

Integrating Evidence into Practice

Experience food science in the kitchen. Experiment in the lab with nutritional and biochemical tests. Study food and nutrition theory, biochemistry and physiology. Put theory into practice as you prepare and cook food in small and large quantities.

Food and Nutrition Practical Skills

Dig into a satisfying food career where you control the quality, nutritional value, labelling and safety of food. Food scientists research, develop and analyse ways to prepare, process and preserve raw ingredients from paddock to plate.

Applied Food Science

Master ways to apply evidence-based practice in human nutrition. Develop skills for interpreting and evaluating evidence and managing constraints.You’ll explore social, economic and environmental factors that challenge and influence your thinking.

Research and Evidence in Practice

Learn how the human body grows and changes—from the womb through adulthood and during the ageing process. Notice how nutrition, eating patterns and habits affect people’s size, fitness levels, and quality and length of human life.

Nutrition Throughout Life

Study the relationship between diet, health and disease. Analyse why food low in nutrition causes health conditions and reduces energy and performance. Discover how bacteria in food spreads, and find ways to prevent and manage diet related disease.

Diet Disease Relationships

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