Nutrition Project
36 hours
One Semester or equivalent
Hawthorn
Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
Overview
This unit exposes students to real-world nutrition problems and allows them to develop and refine their problem-solving, critical analysis, collaboration, and communication skills to be work-ready. Students will work collaboratively in teams on industry-linked projects, applying the discipline-specific knowledge acquired throughout their degree.
Requisites
Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Apply nutrition knowledge to a real-world scenario.
- Critically examine a real-world nutrition problem.
- Design reasoned and justified responses to a nutrition problem using an evidence-informed approach.
- Communicate the proposed design to a range of audiences and stakeholders.
- Demonstrate professionalism skills and behaviours to effectively collaborate in a team setting.
Teaching methods
All applicable locations
Activity Type | Activity | Total Hours | Number of Weeks | Hours Per Week | Venue Type and Activity Detail |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Lecture | 12 | 12 weeks | 1 | Asynchronous |
On-campus | Workshop | 24 | 12 weeks | 2 | |
Specified Activities | Various | 72 | 12 weeks | 6 | Work towards group project |
Unspecified Activities | Independent Learning | 42 | 12 weeks | 3.5 | Work towards individual assignment and other independent learning. Various online activities (readings, videos, HP5) |
Total Hours: | 150 | Total Hours (per week): | 12.5 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULOs |
---|---|---|---|
Assignment 1 | Individual | 35% | 2,5 |
Oral Presentation | Group | 25% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
Project Report | Group | 40% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
Content
- Principles to work effectively in a team
- Project management
- Problem-solving
- Effective use of nutrition information and data
- Innovation in nutrition
- Graduate Attribute 1 (Communication 1 - Verbal Communication)
- Graduate Attribute 2 (Communication 2 - Communicating using different media)
- Graduate Attribute 3 (Teamwork 1 - Collaboration and negotiation)
- Graduate Attribute 4 (Teamwork 2 - Teamwork roles and processes)
- Graduate Attribute 5 (Digital Literacies 1 - Information literacy)
- Graduate Attribute 6 (Digital Literacies 2 - Technical literacy)
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.