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2024 unit information
Burwood (Melbourne): Jennifer McCann
Waurn Ponds (Geelong) and Warrnambool: Katie Lacy
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Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
Burwood (Melbourne) and Waurn Ponds (Geelong) students - 1 x 2 hour lecture per week and 3 x 1 hour seminars per trimesterWarrnambool students: 1 x 2 hour online recorded lecture per week and 3 x 1 hour seminars per trimester
1 x 2 hour online recorded lecture per week3 x 1 hour online seminars per trimester
This unit provides students with foundation knowledge in food, nutrition and health, including food sources of nutrients, food and nutrient recommendations for health and methods for measuring food intake and behaviour, historical perspective of why we consume the foods we do today and how our scientific knowledge may influence foods we eat in the future. Students also gain an understanding of interactions between the environment, technologies developed to produce and harvest foods and scientific advances in food and nutrition. The topics include: food history, Australian food culture, food production, food sources of nutrients, food and nutrient recommendations and their relationship with health and methods used to measure food intakes and behaviours. Students also have an opportunity to align their interests and values to future career options.
ULO1
Identify food and nutrition concepts such as food sources of nutrients, food and nutrient recommendations and the impact of food and nutrition on population health.
ULO2
Identify principles of food production and apply them to issues of global food sustainability.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
ULO3
Identify food and nutrition concepts and apply them to the improvement of population health.
ULO4
Evaluate and discuss methods for measuring food intakes and behaviours and identify factors that influence food choice.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO4: Critical thinking
ULO5
GLO2: CommunicationGLO3: Digital literacy
ULO6
GLO6: Self-management
Assessment 1: Career activity and reflection
500 words, plus infographic
20%
Assessment 2: Written assignment
1400 words
30%
Assessment 3: Case study
800 words
15%
Assessment 4: End-of-Unit Assessment
90 minutes
35%
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HSN101 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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