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 Vision
  • Unit Code

    NUT6110
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Amanda DEVINE

Description

Students will explore the paradigm of the obesity epidemic and worldwide hunger and investigate the challenges of overpopulation and food security in the context of public health nutrition. This unit critically analyses the nexus between the food system, sustainable agriculture, economic and political forces, at a local, national and international level.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply national and international approaches to the prevention and control of non-communicable nutrition-related diseases.
  2. Critically analyse the relationships between the food system, sustainable agriculture, and economic and political forces, at a local, national and international level.
  3. Critically evaluate population health status.
  4. Evaluate different approaches to sustainable nutrition.

Unit Content

  1. Building resilient food systems and future predictions.
  2. Effect of governance, social capital and policy on food supply at a national and global level.
  3. Food security, food sovereignty and sustainable food systems and how these influence future health outcomes.
  4. National and global nutrition-related health statistics.
  5. Social, cultural, political, intellectual, and economic factors in relation to food security.
  6. Strategic national and international approaches for the prevention and control of non-communicable nutrition-related diseases.
  7. Theoretical conceptual framework of sustainable nutrition.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, seminars, guest speakers, team-based debates, 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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Assignment ^Food system and nutritional sustainability project60%
PresentationTeam debate and report40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Assignment ^Food system and nutritional sustainability project60%
PracticumTeam debate and report40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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.

  • Unit Title

    Food Vision
  • Unit Code

    NUT6110
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Amanda DEVINE

Description

Students will explore the paradigm of the obesity epidemic and worldwide hunger and investigate the challenges of overpopulation and food security in the context of public health nutrition. This unit critically analyses the nexus between the food system, sustainable agriculture, economic and political forces, at a local, national and international level.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply national and international approaches to the prevention and control of non-communicable nutrition-related diseases.
  2. Critically analyse the relationships between the food system, sustainable agriculture, and economic and political forces, at a local, national and international level.
  3. Critically evaluate population health status.
  4. Evaluate different approaches to sustainable nutrition.

Unit Content

  1. Building resilient food systems and future predictions.
  2. Effect of governance, social capital and policy on food supply at a national and global level.
  3. Food security, food sovereignty and sustainable food systems and how these influence future health outcomes.
  4. National and global nutrition-related health statistics.
  5. Social, cultural, political, intellectual, and economic factors in relation to food security.
  6. Strategic national and international approaches for the prevention and control of non-communicable nutrition-related diseases.
  7. Theoretical conceptual framework of sustainable nutrition.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, seminars, guest speakers, team-based debates, 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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Assignment ^Food system and nutritional sustainability project60%
PresentationTeam debate and report40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Assignment ^Food system and nutritional sustainability project60%
PracticumTeam debate and report40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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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