Food and Human Nutrition with Placement BSc Honours (B4D6)

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.

All candidates take the following compulsory modules.

• ACE1000 Introduction to Marketing and Consumer Behaviour
• ACE1013 Introduction to Genetics
• ACE1040 Academic and Professional Skills
• ACE1041 Investigating Agri-food Systems from Farm to Folk
• ACE1043 Introduction to Human Nutrition
• ACE1044 Mammalian Physiology
• BIO1004 Microbiology 1
• BIO1019 Introductory Biochemistry for Biologists

All candidates take the following compulsory modules.

• ACE2034 Introduction to Immunology and Toxicology
• ACE2040 Experimental Food Science
• ACE2056 Food Science and Technology
• ACE2059 Nutrition and Metabolism
• ACE2065 Applied and Experimental Human Nutrition
• ACE2066 Academic and Professional Skills 2
• BIO2012 Molecular Genetics and Mammalian Biochemistry
• BIO2027 Food Microbiology

Between Stages 2 and 3, you spend the equivalent of one academic year on an approved work placement. The placement will involve work in food and/or human nutrition and may be within the UK or abroad. You will prepare a report on the work you have been doing as an integral part of the placement year.

• ICM0024 Intercalating Module for B4D6

All candidates take the following compulsory modules:

• ACE3054 Plants as Food
• ACE3062 Sports and Exercise Nutrition
• ACE3073 Advanced Food Science
• ACE3083 Integrating Food and Human Nutrition
• ACE3084 Advanced Nutrient Metabolism and Requirements
• ACE3086 Human Nutrition in Health and Disease
• ACE3090 Project and Dissertation

You also choose one of the following modules:

• ACE3040 Animal Product Quality and Marketing
• ACE3066 Food Policy and Evaluation

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.