FOOD SC 7001WT - Foundations in Food & Nutrition
Waite Campus - Semester 1 - 2024
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General Course Information
Course Details
Course Code FOOD SC 7001WT Course Foundations in Food & Nutrition Coordinating Unit Food Science Term Semester 1 Level Postgraduate Coursework Location/s Waite Campus Units 3 Contact Up to 4 hours per week Available for Study Abroad and Exchange Y Assessment Online Tests; Assessment of diet quality; Nutrition Project; Workshops Participation and Discussion Course Staff
Course Coordinator: Dr Tina Bianco-Miotto
Course Timetable
The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.
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Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
- Understanding the fundamental concepts in food and nutrition.
- Understand the roles and functions of principal nutrients and the processes involved in their digestion, absorption and metabolism.
- Understand the relationship between diet, lifestyle and health.
- Apply the knowledge of Dietary Guidelines, Nutrient Reference Values and food composition to assess dietary quality and plan a healthy diet.
- Critically analyse and communicate on nutrition topics in both the scientific literature and lay media
University Graduate Attributes
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:
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Learning Resources
Required Resources
Required Resources
Access to the on-line resource:
- NHMRC, Australian Government. Nutrient Reference Values for Australia and New Zealand Including Recommended Dietary Intakes, Australian Government 2006. http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/publications/attachments/n35.pdf. Available as a pdf file only
- NHMRC, Australian Government. Eat for Health – Australian Dietary Guidelines Summary. http://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/the_guidelines/n55a_australian_dietary_guidelines_summary_131014.pdf
- Food Standards Australia New Zealand: https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx
- Food Standards Code: https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/code/Pages/default.aspx
Recommended Resources
Highly Recommended Textbook
- E Whitney, SR Rolfes, Crowe T, Cameron-Smith D, Walsh A Understanding Nutrition: Australian and New Zealand Edition, 2nd Ed.: Australia: Cengage Learning Australia, 2014
- Copies of this text book can be found in both the Barr Smith and Waite Libraries. This text can be purchased from the UniBook Shop at the North Terrace Campus
- J Germov& Williams (eds) A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The social appetite. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 1999.
- One Continuous Picnic: A history of eating in Australia. Australia: Penguin, 1982
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Artherosclerosis
- British Medical Journal
- British Journal of Nutrition
- Journal of Nutrition
- Circulation
- European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Journal of the American Dietetic Association
- Lancet
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Nutrition & Dietetics
Online Learning
MyUni: Teaching materials and course documentation will be posted on the MyUni website (http://myuni.adelaide.edu.au/)
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Learning & Teaching Activities
Learning & Teaching Modes
Lectures are used to deliver content relevant to the specified course objectives.
Workshops take the form of class discussions, demonstrations and problems-solving activities. The workshops aim to:
Extend and support the material covered in the lectures.
Apply the knowledge to address real life issues related to food, nutrition and health.
Discuss and provide support to complete the assessment tasks.Workload
The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
A student enrolled in a 3 unit course, such as this, should expect to spend, on average 12 hours per week on the studies required. This includes both the formal contact time required to the course (e.g., lectures and practicals), as well as non-contact time (e.g., reading and revision).Learning Activities Summary
Lecture Topics Include:
- What is in food
- Nutrient Reference Values & Healthy Eating Guidelines
- Functions of principal nutrients and functional foods
- Introduction to nutrition research
- Five food groups and diet quality
- Macronutrients
- Micronutrients
- Report writing, avoiding plagiarism and using Turnitin to improve writing
- Assessments, feedback and exam revision
- Group activities on What's in Food, micro- & macro-nutrients, nutrient calculation and food labelling.
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Assessment
The University's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:
- Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
- Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
- Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
- Assessment must maintain academic standards.
Assessment Summary
Assessment Types of assessment Percentage for grading purpose Hurdle Outcome being assessed Online Test Summative & Formative 20% No 1-5 Assessment of diet quality Summative & Formative 25% No 1-5 Nutrition Porject Summative & Formative 35% No 3-5 Workshop participation and discussion Summative & Formative 20% No 1-5 Assessment Related Requirements
Minimum requirements for passing Nutrition I
To pass, students must gain an overall mark of at least 50%. Students are required to submit each assessment task.
Failure to meet the above minimum requirements for the course may result in a student failing the course or being offered an additional assessment task(s).Assessment Detail
ONLINE TESTS (20%)
The online tests examining students’ knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts in food and nutrition covered in the lectures and tutorials. The tests will consist of a mixture of multiple choice, matching, True/False and short answer questions and will take approximately 30 –60 minutes to complete.
ASSESSMENT OF DIET QUALITY (25%)
Students will be required to keep a record of their dietary intake for three days. Students will be required to complete this part outside of the practical session. Students will be required to assess the nutritional quality of their diet based on the Healthy Eating Guidelines. Students will be required to complete a report on their assessment of the diet and to suggest appropriate modifications to the diet that will lead to improve long term health. This assessment examines student’s ability to analyse and interpret data, their understanding of the knowledge covered in lectures as well as their ability to apply the knowledge in practice.
Nutrition Project (35%)
As a nutrition consultant for a health magazine, students will be required to prepare a summary report on a topical issue in food and nutrition for both the consumers and health professionals. This assessment examines students’ knowledge of nutrition, their ability to evaluate and synthesize nutrition information and their skills in effective communication.
Discussion and participation (20%)
This assesses student’s active involvement in all aspects of the course, including participation and discusison in class activities. Students are required to participate in discussion in all workshops.Submission
Submit all assessments online via the course website on MyUni.. In addition, attend workshops in person.
Late submission of assessments
If an extension is not applied for, or not granted then a penalty for late submission will apply. A penalty of 10% of the value of the assignment for each calendar day that the assignment is late (i.e. weekends count as 2 days), up to a maximum of 50% of the available marks will be applied. This means that an assignment that is 5 days late or more without an approved extension can only receive a maximum of 50% of the marks available for that assignment.
Course Grading
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme) Grade Mark Description FNS Fail No Submission F 1-49 Fail P 50-64 Pass C 65-74 Credit D 75-84 Distinction HD 85-100 High Distinction CN Continuing NFE No Formal Examination RP Result Pending Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.
Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.
Final results for this course will be made available through Access Adelaide.
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