HSN105 - Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong)
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Jessica Kempler
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: HSNM105
Typical study commitment:

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.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

Equivalent of 1 x 1 hour online lecture related to specific topics
1 x 2 hour seminar or equivalent per week

Content

Dietary patterns and the way food is produced can have a major impact on the environment and the environment has a major impact on the food system. This raises concerns about the food system’s future ability to produce sufficient food for food and nutrition security. Governments, non-government organisations, academia, the private sector and citizens are urgently seeking solutions to these public health nutrition problems.

This unit will explore the bidirectional relationship between our food system and environmental sustainability. It will examine how Australia’s food system may be contributing to environmental degradation through greenhouse gas emissions, water use and ecosystem changes, such as the loss of biodiversity and how this impacts on health. In addition, it will examine the effects of global warming on the food system and the threats to food security. Following on from this, the unit will ascertain what changes are needed to ensure a prosperous and ecologically sustainable food system.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1 Define healthy and sustainable food systems and discuss the bi-directional relationship between our food system and environmental sustainability.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication

ULO2

Identify, critique and explain the practices within the food system that can threaten public health and practices that can promote public health.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy

ULO3

Analyse personal food related behaviours for their impact on environmental sustainability, develop goals for feasible behaviour change, implement goals and reflect on the role of behaviour change in successfully contributing to healthy and sustainable food systems

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO4

Research and critique strategies for the development of sustainable food systems.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO5

Communicate complex issues relating to food and sustainability to a non-scientific audience.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO5: Problem solving

Assessment

Trimester 1:
Assessment description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week

Assessment 1: Field trip worksheet report

750 words 20%
  • Week 4

Assessment 2: Literature review

1500 word literature review 40%
  • Week 7

Assessment 3: Healthy and sustainable food challenge and blog post

1600 word portfolio 40%
  • Week 11

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.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HSN105 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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