Unit Synopsis
This unit builds on your prior learning in the areas of nutrition, biochemistry and physiology and applies this in the context of nutritional assessment. In this unit, you will develop an understanding of nutritional assessment, lifespan nutrition and the relationship between nutrition and disease across specific stages of the lifespan. You will also perform nutritional assessment to evaluate nutritional status of individuals.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 8 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisite: Enrolment into CL88 Master of Nutrition and Dietetics OR enrolment with completion of 108 cp into one of CG93 Pre-Dietetics or Clinical Nutrition majors, CM60 Clinical Nutrition Minor or CM61 Bachelor of Nutrition/Master of Nutrition and Dietetics. 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 |
Compulsory Residential School View Unit Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Term 2 - 2026 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 Postgraduate 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
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 30% |
| 2. Practical Assessment | 30% |
| 3. Examination | 40% |
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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Term 2 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 66.67% response rate.
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 unit comments and teacher reports.
Students enjoyed the learning content of the unit and the residential school.
Continue with engaging learning content and residential school activities.
Current structure of the unit and the residential school activities remained the same.
Source: Unit Coordinator self-reflection
Additional weekly resources that illustrate real-life applications of the learning content, could increase engagement and deepen student understanding.
Consider incorporating the weekly booklet structure with links to discussions of real-life applications of the learning content using articles from The Conversation and other reputable sources.
Case studies with real world relevance were used to explore main nutrition themes during weekly recorded tutorials that were then uploaded to weekly Moodle content.
Source: Students feedback
Students' appreciated the learning content and the discussions of theoretical concepts in real-life circumstances.
Continue with the discussion of real-life cases and their relevance to the theoretical concepts.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Evaluate the impacts of food and nutrition factors on human health and disease across all stages of the lifespan
- Perform nutritional assessment to evaluate nutritional status of individuals
- Critically discuss nutrient requirements which impact specific stages of the lifespan
- Research and critically review evidence for the role of food and nutrition in human health.
Learning outcomes of this unit are linked to the following domains of the 2021 Dietitians Australia (DA) National Competency Standards for Dietitians in Australia:
- Domain 1: Professional Practice
- Domain 2: Expert Practice
- Domain 4: Collaborative Practice
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| 2 - Practical Assessment | • | |||
| 3 - Examination | • | • | ||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Research | • | • | • | |
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