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Graduate Certificate in Human Nutrition
includes:
Graduate Certificate in Human Nutrition
The course provides graduates with a level of knowledge, understanding and skills in food and nutrition and its scientific basis to enable them to work in multidisciplinary teams in a range of health and community settings. Graduates are able to apply scientific knowledge of the physiological and biochemical processes relevant to human nutrition to assessing the nutritional value of natural and manufactured foods; understand the social, cultural, psychological, environmental, economic and political complexities of food systems from an individual, group, community and population perspective; understand food and nutrition policy, food safety and food laws and regulation; develop evidence based, sustainable, culturally and socially appropriate interventions to provide a safe and nutritious food supply and to improve nutritional status of individuals, groups, communities and populations; and communicate findings in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
- Award Names
- Availability
- Duration
- Admission
- Credit
- Graduation
- Course Structure
- Enrolment Pattern
The course includes the following awards:
Graduate Certificate in Human Nutrition GradCertHumanNutrit
Course Study Modes and Locations
Graduate Certificate in Human Nutrition (4311HN)
Distance Education - Wagga Wagga
Availability is subject to change, please verify prior to enrolment.
Normal course duration
Graduate Certificate in Human Nutrition
Full-time 0.5 years (1.0 sessions)
Part-time 1.0 years (2.0 sessions)
Normal course duration is the effective period of time taken to complete a course when studied Full-time (Full-time Equivalent: FTE). Students are advised to consult the Enrolment Pattern for the actual length of study. Not all courses are offered in Full-time mode.
Admission criteria
CSU Admission PolicyApplicants to this course will have completed a 3 or 4 year undergraduate degree. An understanding of introductory human physiology is assumed and applicants who lack prior study in in this area may be advised to undertake additional study prior to commencing this course.
Graduation requirements
To graduate students must satisfactorily complete 32 points.
Contact
For further information about Charles Sturt University, or this course offering, please contact info.csu on 1800 334 733 (free call within Australia) or email inquiry@csu.edu.au
The information contained in the 2016 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: June 2016. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.