Nutrition and Health

UCAS code: B400

Here's what Coventry University says about its Nutrition and Health course.

Explore the science of nutrition and its impact on health and wellbeing. Gain practical skills to support healthy lifestyles and prepare for a career in public health, nutrition or the food industry.

Nutritionists play a vital role in improving lives. They work with individuals, communities, the food industry and policymakers to promote healthier diets, influence food choices and support positive change in public health.

• This course is designed to equip you with a thorough understanding of the scientific basis of nutrition with an emphasis on human health and disease. This course also embraces an international perspective, while recognising the key underpinning principles of UK-based nutritional guidance.

• This course provides a high-quality nutrition education by offering you access to modern laboratories, kitchen facilities and nutritional analysis software, such as Nutritics.

• Assessments are designed to mimic real-life scenarios, such as analysing nutrient intake from a food diary, developing dietary interventions and designing health promotion campaigns.

Why you should study this course

• Supported by a teaching team comprising registered nutritionists, food scientists, microbiologists, and food safety experts, ensuring that students are supported by highly qualified professionals who will bring you the latest issues on a wide range of nutritional and health topics (staff subject to change).

• Gain hands-on experience of a wide range of industry techniques in our modern laboratories based in the Alison Gingell Building.

• The course uses educational technologies, such as Kahoot!, Padlet and Mentimeter, to enhance your learning experience and make the course interactive and engaging.

• Undertake an independent research-based project in a related area of your interest.

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of nutrition’s role in human health and disease prevention, as well as modules such as food product design, enabling you to specialise and embark on a range of careers in nutrition, public health or the food industry.

• Develop key transferable skills in independent research, data analysis and statistical analysis to give you a competitive career advantage.

*For further information please check the course page on the Coventry University website.

This course has a common first year.

The common first year enables you to work alongside students doing similar courses to you, to widen your knowledge and exposure to other subject areas and professions. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with other students, so you can share your insights and experience which will help you to develop and learn.

If you discover an interest in a specific subject you have studied, upon successful completion of your first year, you could swap degrees with another course in your common first year (subject to meeting progression requirements).

Common first year courses

• Food Science BSc (Hons)
• Nutrition and Health BSc (Hons)

In the first year, the curriculum is shared across related courses allowing you to gain a broad grounding in the discipline before going on, in the second and third years, to specialist modules in your chosen field.

Year One Modules

• Physiology and Biochemistry for Nutrition
• Food Preparation and Production
• Introduction to Public Health
• Practical and Academic Skills for Nutrition

Year Two Modules In year two, you will develop more advanced knowledge and skills to do with: nutrition throughout the lifespan, food microbiology, public health promotion and policy and food choice and behaviour change, among others.

• Nutrition through the Lifespan
• Professional and Research Development
• Nutrition, Health and Disease
• Food Choice, Behaviour Change and Public Health

Placement Year There’s no better way to find out what you love doing than trying it out for yourself, which is why a work placement can often be beneficial. Work placements usually occur between your second and final years of study. They’re a great way to help you explore your potential career path and gain valuable work experience, whilst developing transferable skills for the future.

Final Year

• Product Design
• Nutrition for Exercise
• Sustainable Food and Public Health Nutrition
• Independent Research Project

We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated. Before accepting any offers, please check the website for the most up to date course content.

*For further information please check the course page on the Coventry University website.

This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module.

Assessment methods include:

• Tests
• Essays
• Group work
• Presentations
• Reports
• Projects
• Coursework
• Individual Assignments

The Coventry University Group assessment strategy ensures that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards achieving the intended learning outcomes.