Courses & Units

Nutrition and Disease CXA385

Introduction

CXA385 Nutrition and Disease is designed to provide you with an increased understanding of the role of dietary patterns and dietary components in the prevention of diet-related chronic conditions. Concepts in the regulation of metabolism, obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke, hypertension, cancers, and dementia will be covered in the unit. The focus will be on the practical role of nutrition in the prevention of these diet-related chronic conditions. This will provide you with practical skills for the use of diet and dietary patterns in the prevention of many chronic diseases prevalent in our society today.

Summary

Unit name	Nutrition and Disease
Unit code	CXA385
Credit points	12.5
College/School	College of Health and Medicine School of Health Sciences
Discipline	Health Sciences
Coordinator	Doctor Matt Sharman
Available as an elective?	Yes
Delivered By	University of Tasmania
Level	Advanced

Availability

Location	Study period	Attendance options		Available to
Launceston	Semester 1	On-Campus		International	Domestic

Key

: On-campus
: Off-Campus
: International students
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Key Dates

Study Period	Start date	Census date	WW date	End date
Semester 1	20/2/2023	21/3/2023	10/4/2023	28/5/2023

* The Final WW Date is the final date from which you can withdraw from the unit without academic penalty, however you will still incur a financial liability (refer to How do I withdraw from a unit? for more information).

Unit census dates currently displaying for 2023 are indicative and subject to change. Finalised census dates for 2023 will be available from the 1st October 2022. Note census date cutoff is 11.59pm AEST (AEDT during October to March).

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Learning Outcomes

Explain the role of nutrition in the prevention of diet-related chronic diseases.
Analyse nutrition research literature and guidelines, and design recommendations for practical chronic disease prevention.
Communicate information on diet and chronic disease prevention to professional and non-professional audiences.

Fee Information

Field of Education	Commencing Student Contribution ^1,3	Grandfathered Student Contribution ^1,3	Approved Pathway Course Student Contribution ^2,3	Domestic Full Fee ⁴
010913	$1,037.00	$1,037.00	not applicable	$2,472.00

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Requisites

Prerequisites

CXA108 Human Nutrition

Teaching

Teaching Pattern	Workshop – 3 hours (7 weeks), Independent Learning 2 hours (weekly)
Assessment	Critical Review (30%)\|Test or Quiz (30%)\|Case Study (40%)
Timetable	View the lecture timetable \| View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required	Judith E Brown, 2017. Nutrition Now, 8th Edition. Cengage Learning. You are encouraged to purchase this book, but it is not essential. Lecture content will be based on this text, and supplemented with additional material, particularly scientific journal articles during the semester.
Recommended	Sareen Gropper, Jack Smith, Timothy Carr, 2018. Advanced nutrition and human metabolism, 7th Edition. Cengage Learning. eChapters for all these text books available from Cengage Learning.
Links	Booktopia textbook finder

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