HSN105 - Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems
Unit details
| Year: | 2022 unit information |
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| Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Jessica Kempler and Georgie Russell |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | Equivalent of 1 x 1 hour cloud (online) class, related to specific topics, plus 1 x 2 hour seminar or equivalent per week |
Content
Dietary patterns and the way food is produced can have a major impact on the environment and the environment has a major impact on the food system. This raises concerns about the food system’s future ability to produce sufficient food for food and nutrition security. Governments, non-government organisations, academia, the private sector and citizens are urgently seeking solutions to these public health nutrition problems.
This unit will explore the bidirectional relationship between our food system and environmental sustainability. It will examine how Australia’s food system may be contributing to environmental degradation through greenhouse gas emissions, water use and ecosystem changes, such as the loss of biodiversity and how this impacts on health. In addition, it will examine the effects of global warming on the food system and the threats to food security. Following on from this, the unit will ascertain what changes are needed to ensure a prosperous and ecologically sustainable food system.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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| ULO1 | Define healthy and sustainable food systems and discuss the bi-directional relationship between our food system and environmental sustainability. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Identify, critique and explain the practices within the food system that can threaten public health and practices that can promote public health. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Analyse personal food related behaviours for their impact on environmental sustainability, develop goals for feasible behaviour change, implement goals and reflect on the role of behaviour change in successfully contributing to healthy and sustainable food systems | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Research and critique strategies for the development of sustainable food systems. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO5 | Communicate complex issues relating to food and sustainability to a non-scientific audience. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
Assessment
Trimester 1:| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Field trip worksheet report | 750 words | 20% |
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| Assessment 2: Literature review and blog post | Literature review 1100 words and blog post 500 words | 40% |
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| Assessment 3: Healthy and Sustainable Food Challenge | 1600 words | 40% |
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The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HSN105 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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