Health Professions
BSc ( Hons ) Dietetics
This course prepares you for work as a dietitian . In addition to placements within the NHS , this course also offers other practicebased opportunities with voluntary organisations . These experiences enable you to put what you have learnt into practice and often as a stepping stone to your first job .
Dietetics focuses on the management and the prevention of nutrition-related disorders at an individual and population level .
The course is a scientific programme of studies that takes you through a clinically and practically focused study of disease , health , food and nutrition . The course prepares you for work as a dietitian in a variety of settings .
In Year One , you will study a range of modules that provide you with the fundamental knowledge , principles and concepts that underpin the practice of dietetics . You will be introduced to the role of food in health , together with human physiology , genetics and biochemistry . You will also develop skills in communication , computing , information technology , data collection and analysis .
In Year Two , you will develop your knowledge and understanding of the concepts relating to health and nutrition further , while beginning to integrate biological and social sciences . In addition , in Year Two , you will undertake your first practice placement block . This will consist of two weeks on campus and two weeks within NHS Scotland .
Year Three develops your knowledge and communication skills further and begins to have a more clinically orientated and applied focus . This helps to prepare you for your second practice placement block ( 12 weeks duration ) within the NHS in Scotland .
Year Four provides you with an opportunity to reflect on and consolidate what you have learnt on your placement at the end of Year Three . It also allows you to undertake an individual researchbased honours project in order to develop your knowledge and skills in this area . You will also undertake your third and final placement block ( 12 weeks duration ) within the NHS in Scotland .
We have implemented an interprofessional education ( IPE ) focus within all of our undergraduate healthcare courses to help produce graduates who are confident in their own professional identity but with additional skills which will allow them to work as effective team members . The IPE component will develop your mutual understanding of roles , expertise and values of other team members ; skills and strategies in working in teams ; problem solving , team decision-making skills ; role flexibility ; and ability to learn from others .
Structure
This is a four-year , full-time honours degree . You will complete a range of modules each year , as outlined , and a research project in Year Four .
Teaching , learning and assessment
Please see the course entry on our website ( see URL on opposite page ) for full details of the learning , teaching and assessment activities for this course . Also check out the ‘ How we teach and how you ’ ll learn ’ section on pages 8-11 .
Year One modules
Biochemistry / Genetics / Health and Society / Cell Biology & Human
Physiology / Interprofessional Education 1 / Introduction to Nutrition / Key Investigative Skills 1 / Microbiology
Year Two modules
Communication and Facilitation of Change / Food Science / Immunology / Integrating Module 2 / Interprofessional Education 2 / Nutrition / Pharmacology / Systems Biology / plus one clinical placement block
Year Three modules
Applied Nutrition / Clinical Sciences / Epidemiology and Health / Professional Studies / Public Health Practice / Therapeutic Dietetics / plus one clinical placement block
Year Four modules
Honours Project ( research )/ Research Communication / Research Process / plus one clinical placement block
The modules listed here are correct at time of print ( Feb 2018 ) but may differ slightly to those offered in 2019 . Please check the website for any updates .
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