BSc in Nutritional Science

Student Handbook

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Standards for a high quality Nutritionist

Policy

A high quality nutritionist will be one with not only a complete understanding of the key role that

healthy nutrition plays in the prevention of most major diseases, but also the skills to apply the

scientific principles of nutrition, to develop innovative strategies and ideas for the promotion of

health and wellbeing of individuals, groups and populations.

It is the responsibility of the BSc in Nutritional Science to prepare students to acquire these skills.

It is the responsibility of the nutritional science student to show commitment and significant

involvement in any course and activity which may contribute to the development of these skills.

Procedure

Among the different "umbrella skills," i.e. skills that cover or surround everything else you do in

nutritional science, the student will acquire, there are:

plan and project development according to appropriate methodology and policy

analysis and criticism of various information

acquire up to date knowledge

formulation of new ideas based on various collected data or information

Community Nutrition, Research Nutrition Project, trips and internship will give many opportunities

covering different areas to the nutritional student to develop these skills.

Internship represents the most significant field experience the nutritional science student will have.

Any delivery (report, presentation, article analysis…) related to one of these courses/activities,

must reflect good knowledge, understanding and application of appropriate methodology, abilities

in analyzing, reporting and use of results to propose new adapted strategies/ideas.

For example, this may appear as a section named “Future potential applications for Nutritionists”

at the end of the analysis of scientific articles. Since clinical nutrition, food industry,

pharmaceutical, Government entities, and research areas are some of the fields nutritionists can

practice, they should be considered when suggesting applications of given information/data.

Standards for Oral Presentations

Policy