Health and Nutrition

Programme Structure & Content

First & Second Year
Students study core courses in Health Studies, Biology, Psychology, Sociology and Elementary Statistics. They take other courses from a wide range of arts, science and social science subjects.

Third Year
Third year courses are taught at the Medical School, and, as part of its deliberately wide-ranging (broad) structure, introduce students to health related disciplines including:

• Nutrition
• Epidemiology
• Statistics
• Research Methods
• Health Promotion
• Social Influences on Health and Illness

Fourth Year (Honours)
Students join a specialist stream focusing on Health and Nutrition:

• First semester: Nutrition Metabolism, Dietary Assessment, Assessment of Nutritional Status, Nutritional Epidemiology and Theories of Diet & Disease.
• Second semester: Individual nutrition project and dissertation. Students will design, conduct and analyse a small-scale project on a health-related topic and write a dissertation on this work.

Teaching & Assessment

The typical workload in first and second year is four hours class time a day. In third year and Honours the contact hours are less and more time is allocated for self-study. Mature entrants are welcome - especially those with prior healthcare experience. In third year and Honours all sessions start at 9.30 to assist mature students with school-aged children.