BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCE (CLINICAL NUTRITION)

In this course, you will study how nutritional, dietary and lifestyle factors can impact our health, and how therapeutic nutritional intervention can achieve wellbeing.

You will gain hands-on experience at the Wellbeing Centre under the guidance of experienced nutritionists, treating public patients.

This will prepare you to confidently start practice in the community.

*Please note that some coursework must be completed face to face to meet industry requirements.

Clinical Practice Work Integrated Learning and Clinical Practicum Experience are embedded throughout the course and are incorporated into theory subjects.

Students complete most clinic requirements in our custom-built University Student-led Clinic - The Practice Wellbeing Centre.

You will gain hands on experience by consulting with members of the public under the guidance of experienced practitioners.

This will prepare you to confidently practice in the community.

YEAR 1

• Core Units
• NUTR2004 Food Science, Systems & Policy
• NUTR2002 Human Nutrition 2
• NUTR2001 Human Nutrition 1
• HWEL2002 Understanding Health
• HSP102 Human Structure & Physiology 2
• HSP101 Human Structure & Physiology 1
• BFD105 Biological Foundations
• Evidence Based Practice

YEAR 2

• Core Units
• PCS209 Pre-clinical Studies 2
• NUT208 Nutritional Therapeutics 1
• CLA207 Clinical Assessment
• PCS207 Pre-Clinical Studies 1
• HSP202 Human Systems & Pathophysiology 2
• HBC205 Human Biochemistry
• HSP201 Human Systems & Pathophysiology 1
• SCIE2006 Nutritional Biochemistry and Human Metabolism

YEAR 3

• Core Units
• Entrepreneurship, Professionalism & Business skills in Health
• Elective 1
• DIP303 Integrated Pharmacology
• FNM408 Functional Nutritional Medicine
• DCP409 Dietary Counselling & Planning
• NUT208 Nutritional Therapeutics 2
• FAM203 Food as Medicine
• NUTR2005 Lifespan Nutrition

ELECTIVES

• Elective Units
• NUTR2008 Special Populations Project
• NUTR2007 Public Health Nutrition
• CLR308 Critical Literature Review
• NUTR2006 Diet & Disease
• HPR200 Health Promotion

• Health science & clinical assessment
• Lifespan nutrition
• Food as medicine
• Clinical nutrition therapeutics & clinical studies
• Evidence-based clinical nutritional management
• Nutrition clinical practicum