Nutrition with Food Marketing BSc Honours (BD46)

Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.

Programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.

• ACE1000 Introduction to Marketing and Consumer Behaviour
• ACE1006 Introductory Business Economics
• ACE1033 Introduction to Business Management
• ACE1040 Academic and Professional Skills
• ACE1041 Investigating Agri-food Systems from Farm to Folk
• ACE1043 Introduction to Human Nutrition
• ACE1044 Mammalian Physiology
• BIO1019 Introductory Biochemistry for Biologists

You will take the following compulsory modules:

• ACE2000 Marketing Strategy: Concepts and Applications
• ACE2056 Food Science and Technology
• ACE2059 Nutrition and Metabolism
• ACE2065 Applied and Experimental Human Nutrition
• ACE2066 Academic and Professional Skills 2

You will take 20 credits of modules selected from the following:

• ACC1000 Introduction to Non-Specialist Accounting and Finance
• ACE2012 Managerial Economics
• BUS2000 Human Resource Management
• MKT2045 Services Marketing (for Erasmus and Study Abroad Students)
• NCL2007 Career Development for Second Year Students
• NCL2100 Developing Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Employability
• PSY2003 Social Psychology

You may choose to spend a year, between Stages 2 and 3, on a work placement in the UK or abroad. If you do, you will take the following compulsory module:

• ICM0055 Intercalating Module for AFRD

You will take the following compulsory modules:

• ACE3062 Sports and Exercise Nutrition
• ACE3066 Food Policy and Evaluation
• ACE3078 Marketing Metrics
• ACE3084 Advanced Nutrient Metabolism and Requirements
• ACE3086 Human Nutrition in Health and Disease
• ACE3091 Project and Dissertation
• PSY3006 Consumer Psychology

There is great demand for biologists with knowledge of nutrition. A wide range of opportunities exist across the sector, including:

• product development or quality assurance in the food industry
• with non-commercial bodies such as Medical Research Council or Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• in research and development
• in an advisory capacity with groups concerned with food safety.

It’s not only employers in the science sector that value the skills you learn at Newcastle; past graduates have forged careers in all sorts of areas including management, administration, accountancy, finance, teaching and the media.

Find out more about the career options for Food and Human Nutrition from Prospects: The UK's Official Careers Website.