Graduate Certificate of Public Health Nutrition
2017 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2017 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Graduate Certificate of Public Health Nutrition |
| Campus | This course is only offered Online |
| Cloud Campus | Yes |
| Duration | Students commencing in Trimester 1: 1 year part time Students commencing in Trimester 2: 1.5 years part time |
| Deakin course code | H517 |
| Approval status | This course is approved by the University under the Higher Education Standards Framework. |
| Australian Quality Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 8. |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Indicative student workload
- Career opportunities
- Pathways
- Fees and charges
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
Course overview
Learn about a population approach to promoting health and preventing diet related disease.
You will develop an understanding of a systems approach to dealing with diet-related disease, including over and under nutrition; the social and political elements of food policy; and food security and environmental sustainability.
By studying disciplines such as politics and policy as well as public health and nutrition promotion, this practically-oriented course will give you the core skills to tackle important public health and nutrition issues.
Indicative student workload
As a student in a Cloud (online) course in the Faculty of Health you will be expected to spend 11-13 hours every week studying, interacting via CloudDeakin and completing assessment tasks for each unit in your course.
Career opportunities
A career in public health nutrition addresses factors affecting the protection and promotion of public health and nutritional health today, and into the future. As a graduate you may deal with the epidemic of diet-related disease, including obesity; socio-economic considerations such as rising food prices and food security; and environmental sustainability in relation to the food system.
You can find additional careers information about this course here
Pathways
This course can be a pathway to:
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on your course, your fee category and the year you started. To find out about the fees and charges that apply to you, visit the Current students fees website.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
| Discipline Specific knowledge and capabilities | Apply key principles, concepts, evidence-based knowledge and skills in public health nutrition to complex public health nutrition problems. |
| Communication | Select and use appropriate modes of communication to obtain and share evidence based public health nutrition knowledge. |
| Digital Literacy | Select and use appropriate technologies to locate and evaluate public health nutrition information, and to interpret and share knowledge, skills and ideas. |
| Critical thinking | Critically analyse, reflect on and synthesise information and problems in public health nutrition, to inform high level independent judgements. |
| Problem Solving | Apply best practice and evidence to identify problems and generate and evaluate practical solutions to a range of public health nutrition issues. |
| Self-management | Employ reflective practice and high level personal responsibility and autonomy to demonstrate reasonable judgement, adaptability to new situations, effective work practices, and accountability as a public health nutritionist. |
| Teamwork | Establish, contribute and maintain a key role in relationships with a range of stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes to advance public health nutrition. |
| Global Citizenship | Engage in professional and ethical practice within diverse contexts relevant to public health nutrition. |
Course rules
To complete the Graduate Certificate of Public Health Nutrition students must attain 4 credit points. All four 1 credit point units are core units (these are compulsory).
For students completing both a postgraduate human nutrition course (H511 or H714) and the Graduate Certificate of Public Health Nutrition (H517), a maximum of 2 credit points of credit for prior learning can be shared between both awards.
Course structure
Core units
Course structure applies to students commencing in 2016 onwards. Students who commenced before 2016 should consult your course enrolment officer on email ens-equire@deakin.edu.au.
Trimester 1
| HSN705 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HSN708 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Trimester 2
| HSN706 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HSN714 | Unit description is currently unavailable |