Unit Synopsis
This unit aims to provide you with the skills to apply the fundamental principles of human nutrition and pharmacology to enhance the musculoskeletal well-being of your future patients. It commences by reviewing the essential principles in these disciplines, ensuring your knowledge is comprehensive and evidence informed. Subsequently, you will focus on the elements of pharmacology and nutrition most pertinent to your role as a health professional.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Co-requisite: Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2027
Term 1 - 2027 Profile
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
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This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: SUTE
Some students reported that some content felt disjointed which impacted their learning experience
It is recommended that the new Unit Coordinator review the content to ensure a smooth learning experience.
Lecture materials, recorded videos and assessment content were comprehensively reviewed and updated to improve content organisation, consistency and alignment across the nutrition and pharmacology components of the unit. Missing and duplicated resources were addressed, and content was restructured to provide a more cohesive learning experience.
Source: SUTE
Some students felt having more real life cases and relevancy to chiropractic would have improved their learning experience.
It is recommended the new Unit Coordinator introduce clinical chiropractic focused cases during the review and update of content for next year.
Unit content was updated to strengthen its relevance to chiropractic practice through the incorporation of contemporary evidence, clinical examples and practice-relevant applications across both nutrition and pharmacology topics.
Source: SUTE
Students valued the clinical relevance of the nutrition and pharmacology content and recognised its contribution to their future chiropractic practice.
It is recommended that the unit coordinator continues to strengthen the integration of nutrition and pharmacology content with clinically relevant chiropractic applications and case-based learning activities.
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Students identified opportunities to improve learning support through additional assessment guidance, practice questions, exemplar resources and greater opportunities for engagement with unit content.
It is recommended that the unit coordinator reviews learning support resources prior to the next offering, including the provision of practice questions, assessment exemplars and additional student engagement activities where feasible.
In Progress
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