Graduate Certificate of Nutrition for Health
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2025 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Graduate Certificate of Nutrition for Health |
| Deakin course code | H518 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Health |
| Campus | Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Duration | 1 semester full-time |
| Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 8 |
This course is an exit point only from H718 Master of Dietetics | |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Indicative student workload
- Career opportunities
- Mandatory student checks
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
- Fees and charges
Course overview
Deakin’s Graduate Certificate of Nutrition for Health equips students with theoretical knowledge of evidence-based practice, nutrition, food and health.
This course will equip students to critically appraise scientific literature, consider social, psychological and cultural factors influencing diets, build skills to collaborate with others, and apply critical thinking regarding nutrition for health.
Graduates will have the knowledge and skills for evidence-based practice in roles such as: allied health assistant, health promotion, or nutrition communications, media and marketing.
Indicative student workload
As a student undertaking a course in the Faculty of Health you will be expected to participate in a range of learning activities each week. You will spend 11-13 hours per unit (i.e., per 1-credit point unit) each week engaging in a combination of practical classes, self-paced study, seminars, online interactions and assessment tasks during the semester teaching periods. In some instances, assessment tasks may also take place outside of the semester teaching periods.
You can refer to the individual unit details in the course structure for more information on each unit.
Career opportunities
The course prepares you for roles such as:
• an allied health assistant
• health promotion
• nutrition communications, media and marketing
Mandatory student checks
There are no mandatory student checks required for this course.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities | Demonstrate theoretical knowledge of evidence-based practice, nutrition, food and health. |
| Communication | Select and use appropriate communication modes and techniques to obtain and share evidence based nutrition knowledge. |
| Digital literacy | Select and use appropriate technologies to analyse and interpret nutrition information, and to share knowledge, skills and ideas. |
| Critical thinking | Analyse and synthesise information and problems in nutrition, to inform high level independent judgements. |
| Problem solving | Understand the theory of applying best practice and evidence to identify problems and generate practical solutions to a selection of nutrition issues. |
| Self-management | Employ personal accountability and demonstrate effective work practices and responsible judgement as a nutritionist. |
| Teamwork | Work effectively with team members to deliver outcomes to advance nutrition. |
| Global citizenship | Engage in professional and ethical practice, including understanding and advocating for the nutritional wellbeing of people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. |
Course rules
To complete the Graduate Certificate of Nutrition for Health students must pass 4 credit points and meet the following course rules to be eligible to graduate:
- DAI001 Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first study period
- 4 credit points of core units
Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements. See the enrolment codes and terminology to help make sense of the University’s vocabulary.
Course structure
Core units
Level 1 - Semester 1
| DAI001 | Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0 credit points) |
| HSN070 | Food and Nutrition Laboratory Safety (0 credit points) |
| HSN744 | Principles of Dietetics |
| HSN757 | Evidence-Based Practice in Dietary Modifications |
Further information
Student Central can help you with course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements.
- Contact Student Central
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, and their study discipline or your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.