School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Community Nutrition
  • Unit Code

    NUT3221
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Rosalind SAMBELL

Description

This unit examines current community nutrition advice, materials and programs and the effect that political forces and marketing have on these processes. The relationships between nutrition intervention and community practice are examined in the context of learning theories, nutrition research, capacity building and sustainability.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass NUT1121

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Compare methods by which nutrition information and dietary advice can be structured, packaged and delivered to specific audiences.
  2. Critically analyse the political forces that influence large-scale nutrition education programs.
  3. Critically evaluate formal and informal community programs that promote nutrition objectives.
  4. Examine the development of community nutrition in Australia.
  5. Justify the purpose of evidence-based nutrition advice, research and practice.

Unit Content

  1. Training in current community programs.
  2. Role of ethics in dissemination of nutrition information.
  3. Role of the Australian National Food Plan, Food Standards Australia & New Zealand and the food industry.
  4. Grant writing skills.
  5. Customising communication skills based on learning theories.
  6. Social marketing approaches to nutrition promotion.
  7. Writing SMART objectives, using evidence based content to justify interventions, strategies and resources relevant to formal community nutrition interventions.
  8. Community needs and emerging issues for culturally competent nutrition education.
  9. State and National bodies involved in nutrition education.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered13 x 3 hour seminar

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, guest speakers, e-learning activities and discussion groups.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentNeeds Assessment 50%
TestQuiz15%
AssignmentGroup Project 35%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Community Nutrition
  • Unit Code

    NUT3221
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Rosalind SAMBELL

Description

This unit examines current community nutrition advice, materials and programs and the effect that political forces and marketing have on these processes. The relationships between nutrition intervention and community practice are examined in the context of learning theories, nutrition research, capacity building and sustainability.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass NUT1121

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Compare methods by which nutrition information and dietary advice can be structured, packaged and delivered to specific audiences.
  2. Critically analyse the political forces that influence large-scale nutrition education programs.
  3. Critically evaluate formal and informal community programs that promote nutrition objectives.
  4. Examine the development of community nutrition in Australia.
  5. Justify the purpose of evidence-based nutrition advice, research and practice.

Unit Content

  1. Training in current community programs.
  2. Role of ethics in dissemination of nutrition information.
  3. Role of the Australian National Food Plan, Food Standards Australia & New Zealand and the food industry.
  4. Grant writing skills.
  5. Customising communication skills based on learning theories.
  6. Social marketing approaches to nutrition promotion.
  7. Writing SMART objectives, using evidence based content to justify interventions, strategies and resources relevant to formal community nutrition interventions.
  8. Community needs and emerging issues for culturally competent nutrition education.
  9. State and National bodies involved in nutrition education.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered13 x 3 hour seminar

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, guest speakers, e-learning activities and discussion groups.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentNeeds Assessment 50%
TestQuiz15%
AssignmentGroup Project 35%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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