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.

  • Unit Title

    Food Habits and Trends
  • Unit Code

    NUT3231
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Rosalind SAMBELL

Description

In this unit students will examine human patterns of food choice, acceptance and consumption, and the influence of physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, economic and political forces upon consumer food choices. Students learn about current issues and emerging trends in the food and nutrition habits of diverse populations, and explore the impact of food supply on individual, national and global health outcomes.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed NUT1121

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply knowledge of emerging food habits and trends in order to inform behaviour change strategies.
  2. Critically evaluate the physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, economic and political determinants that influence food choices.
  3. Communicate with a wide range of diverse audiences to obtain information about their food habits
  4. Work collaboratively to persuade for social, sustainable and ethical improvements in the food and nutrition habits of diverse populations.

Unit Content

  1. Physiological determinants of food intake inlcuding hunger, satiety and the role of neurotransmitters.
  2. Psychological determinants affecting food selection including mood, emotions, food cravings and addictions.
  3. Theoretical frameworks and models of food choice.
  4. History of food habits in Australia.
  5. Culinary cultures and their nutritional implications.
  6. Diverse global nutrition issues including food security, malnutrition, sustainable agriculture and obesogenic environment.
  7. Economic forces, policies and politics of national and international food and nutrition issues.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students work collaboratively to investigate debate topics relating to critical health and nutrition issues and develop their ability to work within a team and present ideas persuasively. They refine their interpersonal and oral communication skills through food habit interviews and engage in team-based tutorial discussion and social media learning activities. Laboratory classes include food preparation and tasting, with diverse cultural cuisines and food choice behaviours being explored. On campus students are required to listen to a one hour pre-recorded lecture prior to attending a two hour on campus weekly tutorial.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportEating habits 40%
PresentationFood habits and trends debate and report40%
ParticipationEngaging in food trend discussions20%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

  • Unit Title

    Food Habits and Trends
  • Unit Code

    NUT3231
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Rosalind SAMBELL

Description

In this unit students will examine human patterns of food choice, acceptance and consumption, and the influence of physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, economic and political forces upon consumer food choices. Students learn about current issues and emerging trends in the food and nutrition habits of diverse populations, and explore the impact of food supply on individual, national and global health outcomes.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed NUT1121

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply knowledge of emerging food habits and trends in order to inform behaviour change strategies.
  2. Critically evaluate the physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, economic and political determinants that influence food choices.
  3. Communicate with a wide range of diverse audiences to obtain information about their food habits
  4. Work collaboratively to persuade for social, sustainable and ethical improvements in the food and nutrition habits of diverse populations.

Unit Content

  1. Physiological determinants of food intake inlcuding hunger, satiety and the role of neurotransmitters.
  2. Psychological determinants affecting food selection including mood, emotions, food cravings and addictions.
  3. Theoretical frameworks and models of food choice.
  4. History of food habits in Australia.
  5. Culinary cultures and their nutritional implications.
  6. Diverse global nutrition issues including food security, malnutrition, sustainable agriculture and obesogenic environment.
  7. Economic forces, policies and politics of national and international food and nutrition issues.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students work collaboratively to investigate debate topics relating to critical health and nutrition issues and develop their ability to work within a team and present ideas persuasively. They refine their interpersonal and oral communication skills through food habit interviews and engage in team-based tutorial discussion and social media learning activities. Laboratory classes include food preparation and tasting, with diverse cultural cuisines and food choice behaviours being explored. On campus students are required to listen to a one hour pre-recorded lecture prior to attending a two hour on campus weekly tutorial.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportEating habits 40%
PresentationFood habits and trends debate and report40%
ParticipationEngaging in food trend discussions20%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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