Bachelor of Nutrition Science

Queensland University of Technology

This course is flexible, allowing you to explore career opportunities and develop a unique skill set by choosing electives in complementary areas such as business, digital media, sport and exercise, or biosciences.You will be taught by staff with extensive industry experience in areas that include sports nutrition, health promotion, childhood obesity, Indigenous health and research. Their experience, combined with case studies offered by guest lecturers, will give you the knowledge to meet the needs and expectations of your clients. Close links with industry ensure our curriculum is relevant and our graduates can meet the demands of the changing healthcare environment. Nutritionists focus on issues that affect the whole population. They are employed in a number of industries to analyse food supply, government policy and eating behaviours, and to develop new ways to promote healthy lifestyle choices and prevent diet-related disease within communities. Nutritionists can apply their expert knowledge to a number of nutrition services but are not qualified to provide medical nutrition therapy to individuals or groups in hospitals or other clinical environments.

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