Full time
1 year
OCT-24
MSc - Master of Science
Nutrition Health Promotion
Taught
Course overview
Learn about public health nutrition and how it relates to the science of preventing disease, prolonging and improving quality of life, and promoting health through the medium of nutrition. A public health nutritionist aims to promote health and well-being through food and nutrition, help people make healthier choices, create environments that promotes health, and develop supportive health-related policies. The Department of Clinical Sciences and Nutrition has an excellent reputation in nutrition at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, with considerable teaching and research expertise in public health nutrition and all its allied subjects and fields. Our staff are enthusiastic and helpful, and pride themselves on the extra help they provide to those who require it.
This course delivers current, relevant training to produce graduates with the knowledge, skills, and experience to excel as public health nutritionists. It provides a wide range of career opportunities, and it ensures a strong practitioner-based focus to study whilst helping you develop transferable public health skills. Students that do not wish to study the full MSc programme, can choose to study to a PGDip/PGCert level instead.
Careers and Employability
Careers and Employability aims to deliver a service which is inclusive, impartial, welcoming, informed and tailored to your personal goals and aspirations, to enable you to develop as an individual and contribute to the business and community in which you will live and work. We are here to help you plan your future, make the most of your time at University and to enhance your employability. We provide access to part-time jobs, extra-curricular employability-enhancing workshops and offer practical one-to-one help with career planning, including help with CVs, applications and mock interviews. We also deliver group sessions on career planning within each course and we have a wide range of extensive information covering graduate jobs.
For this course (per year)
£8,505
For this course (per year)
£14,750
Applications are invited from graduates who have completed an undergraduate BSc degree (minimum 2:2 honours or equivalent), in human nutrition or biological/health science. The degree must contain components in biochemistry and physiology. Applications will be considered from those with other science degrees, providing the applicant has a minimum 2:2 honours (or equivalent) and science A Levels.
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