NUTRITION EDUCATION

DTN3NTE

2020

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

In this subject students will begin to understand and be able to apply learning and educational theories within the context of food and nutrition education. Students will apply skills in interpreting population, demographic and other food and nutrition data to describe a community and their food, health and nutritional status and develop a range of high level communication skills through developing a health promotion program to meet the needs of a community. Finally students will gain practical skills in planning food and nutrition education with particular emphasis on translating scientific literature into end-point user-friendly, culturally appropriate written information by demonstrating excellent communication skills across a variety of mediums.

School: Allied Health, Human Services & Sport (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Kathryn Toohey

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: No

Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG

Available as Elective: No

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: Must be admitted in one of the following course code: HMDP OR; Must be admitted in HZNDP and must have passed DTN3NDS

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: DTN4ECN OR DTN303 OR DTN403

Equivalent subjects: DTN4ECN

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

Quota-conditions or rules: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

Assumed knowledge: N/A

Learning resources

Nutrition Counselling and Education Skill Development

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Prescribed

Author: Bauer, K D, Liou, D and Sokolik, C A

Year: 2016

Edition/Volume: 3RD EDN

Publisher: CENGAGE LEARNING. BELMONT

ISBN: N/A

Chapter/article title: N/A

Chapter/issue: N/A

URL: N/A

Other description: N/A

Source location: N/A

Career Ready

Career-focused: No

Work-based learning: No

Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A

Entire subject or partial subject: N/A

Total hours/days required: N/A

Location of WBL activity (region): N/A

WBL addtional requirements: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

COMMUNICATION - Communicating and Influencing
DISCIPLINE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Apply learning and educational theories to design individual and group nutrition education sessions, including development of appropriate supporting materials.
02. Apply effective individual and group multimodal communication skills across for a range of lay and expert audiences.
03. Critically review and analyse the food, health and nutritional status of groups across Australia and the world.

Melbourne (Bundoora), 2020, Semester 1, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Kathryn Toohey

Class requirements

LectureWeek: 10 - 21
Six 2.00 hours lecture per study period on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 21 and delivered via face-to-face.

TutorialWeek: 11 - 14
Four 2.00 hours tutorial per study period on weekdays during the day from week 11 to week 14 and delivered via face-to-face.

TutorialWeek: 10 - 21
Eight 2.00 hours tutorial per study period on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 21 and delivered via face-to-face.

Unscheduled Online ClassWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.00 hours unscheduled online class per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via online.

Assessments

Assessment elementCommentsCategoryContributionHurdle%ILO*

One 1800 word equivalent individual written assessment taskPlan a community nutrition project

N/AN/AN/ANo50SILO1, SILO3

One group task (equivalent to 1000 words per student)Analysis of health promotion program

N/AN/AN/ANo20SILO1, SILO2

One individual task (500 words equiv)Evaluation and reflection of project

N/AN/AN/ANo15SILO1, SILO2, SILO3

One individual 10 min oral presentation (500 words equiv)Presented to staff and peers prior to presentation to community group

N/AN/AN/ANo15SILO1, SILO2, SILO3