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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

310091 (v.1) Advanced Nutrition Topics 581

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Tutition Patterns

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Area: School of Public Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Tutorial: 5 x 1 Hours Weekly
Co Requisite(s): 309099 (v.1) Dietetic Counselling 581 or any previous version
AND
309100 (v.1) Food Service 581 or any previous version
AND
310088 (v.1) Dietetic Practice Techniques 581 or any previous version
AND
310235 (v.1) Medicine and Dietetics 581 or any previous version
Syllabus: Exploration of current nutritional issues associated with the clinical setting: metabolic responses to trauma, and food/nutrient and medication interactions and with the lifestyle diseases: diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Students are required to prepare and present a seminar selected from a range of topics which relate a disease or condition to diet. The student is required to assess and rank the level of evidence for the relationship. This requires wide reading with critical evaluation onthe part of the student.
Field of Education: 069901 Nutrition and Dietetics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External