Bachelor Of Nutrition And Dietetics

The Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics degree requires 4 years of full-time study and the completion of 192 credit points of approved subjects. The Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics course emphasises professional development and provides the student with opportunities to gain clinical and health promotion skills through placements in hospitals, community health centres and the department's Exercise Science and Rehabilitation Centre. Graduates are eligible for membership of the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) and practice as professional Dietitians/Nutritionists.
Undergraduate students wishing to transfer into the Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics degree may make application upon completion of the first two years of the BSc (Nutrition), BSc (Exercise Science and Nutrition) or the Bachelor of Medical Science degrees (or other approved degree programs). Selection is based on a range of criteria including University results over that time.

Students within the Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics will need to have achieved a minimum of credit average across the first two years of their program to be permitted to continue into the third and fourth years of this degree. Students failing to achieve this grade will be transferred to the BSc (Nutrition) degree program. In addition, students within the BSc(Nutrition) who have achieved a credit average in the first 2 years of this degree will be permitted to apply to transfer into the Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics at this time

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