Program Overview

BSc (Honours) Human Nutrition and Health with Foundation Year

Course Summary

This course provides the knowledge, skills, and experience needed to improve individuals' health, wellbeing, and performance, and to benefit society and the planet. Students will develop and reflect on the professional skills needed to work in the nutrition sector.

How You Learn

• Lectures, seminars, and workshops
• Practical sessions in food science and nutrition labs, development kitchens, and sensory suite
• Webinars and competitions
• Live projects with schools, voluntary sector organizations, and food businesses
• Independent study and group work

Modules

Year 1

• Going Global (20 credits)
• People, Decisions And Behaviours (40 credits)
• Preparing For Success (20 credits)
• Sustainable Innovation (40 credits)

Year 2

• Applied Academic Skills (20 credits)
• Food Choice: People And Planet (40 credits)
• Fundamentals Of Food And Nutrition: Composition, Safety And Nutrient Function (40 credits)
• Physiology And Biochemistry For Nutrition (20 credits)

Year 3

• Applied Nutrition: Populations, Policy And Practice (20 credits)
• Nutrition And Health In The Digital Age (20 credits)
• Nutrition In Health And Disease: Meeting Specific Needs (40 credits)
• Personal And Professional Development (40 credits)

Year 4

• Study Abroad - Sheffield Business School (60 credits)
• Placement Year (- credits)

Final Year

• Food And Nutrition Consultancy Challenge (40 credits)
• Food And Nutrition Research (40 credits)
• Wellbeing Service Provision (20 credits)
• Global Issues In Nutrition And Health (20 credits)
• Issues In Sports Nutrition (20 credits)

Future Careers

This course prepares students for careers in:

• Nutrition
• Weight and diabetes management
• Behaviour change
• Public health
• Food industry (nutrition)
• Sports nutrition
• Scientific affairs
• Research (including postgraduate research degrees)

Equipment and Facilities

• Fully equipped food and nutrition laboratories
• Nutrient quantification equipment
• Specialist health and physical activity measurement devices
• Bio-electrical impedence body composition analysers
• Dynameters for measuring strength and power output
• State of the art development kitchens
• Sensory evaluation suite conforming to the latest British standards
• Nutritics, a specialist software for diet assessment
• PebblePad, to record, organize and evaluate all the evidence from the course and relevant extra-curricular activities which support professional development and reflective practice

Where Will I Study?

• City Campus

Entry Requirements

• 64 UCAS points
• English Language at grade C or 4
• Maths at grade C or 4
• Two sciences at grade C or 4 (Chemistry, Biology, Physics or double science equivalents)

Fees and Funding

• Home students: £5,760 for the foundation year and £9,535 per year for the degree (capped at a maximum of 20% of this during the placement year)
• International students: £18,000 per year (capped at a maximum of 20% of this during the placement year)

Additional Course Costs

• General course additional costs
• Additional costs for Sheffield Business School (PDF, 277.5KB)