Nutrition BSc (Hons) Nutrition

This comprehensive four-year undergraduate BSc (Hons) Nutrition provides a robust combination of the theoretical understanding and practical skills essential for cultivating a rewarding career as a nutritionist.

Thrive in our supportive learning environment, with great facilities, complemented by a placement giving you experience in a real-world environment. Upon graduation you will be eligible to apply for registration with the Association for Nutrition (AfN) as an associate nutritionist.

Attracting increasing attention in recent years, nutrition is an engaging and rewarding subject to study, offering a pathway to a range of diverse and gratifying careers. Nutritionists generate, assess and deliver scientific and evidence-based advice across a variety of settings to improve health and wellbeing, and to promote a healthy diet and lifestyle.

On this course you will learn the scientific, social and sustainability importance of nutrition in a modern and forward-looking university with excellent specialist facilities and equipment. Integrated real-world experiences, including a work-based placement module will foster your practical skills.

The science of nutrition employs evidence-based approaches to highlight the intricate relationship between our diet and health at an individual and population level, with consideration of biological, social, cultural, economic, environmental and behavioural contexts. This scientific discipline delves into the impact of food on the functioning of the living organism, offering insights to optimise human health and mitigate the risk of disease. Nutrition encompasses the study of food composition, digestion, absorption and elimination processes, energy metabolism and the vital synthesis essential for growth, maintenance and reproduction across the life-course.

The course covers all three areas of nutrition specialisation (clinical nutrition, public health nutrition, and sports and exercise nutrition), so you can explore your specific interests and career aspirations. There is a strong focus on sustainability with a newly developed module dedicated to sustainable food systems.

On this course you will:

* learn the academic principles of the nutrition sciences and gain practical skills in our advanced laboratories;

* learn how to think critically on a larger scale. What are the social, political, cultural and environmental factors affecting what we eat? How do nutritionists use evidence-based approaches to optimise health, prevent disease, and support behaviour change at an individual, community and population level?; and

* learn about the most current issues in the field of nutrition. For example, how does our gut microbiome composition impact our health? How do nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics influence current practice? What are the current/contemporary practices and policies in the field of nutrition?