Nutrition pathway
If you follow the Nutrition pathway you’ll study human nutrition, the maintenance of good health and the wellbeing of populations. These topics require you to consider the environmental, social, economic and cultural aspects of eating behaviours and how they impact health.
Structuring your pathway
For your Nutrition pathway you must complete the following courses, plus the Food Science and Nutrition capstone course, FOODSCI 399:
- 120 points:
- BIOSCI 101 Life! Origins and Mechanisms
- BIOSCI 106 Foundations of Biochemistry
- BIOSCI 107 Biology for Biomedical Science: Cellular Processes and Development
- CHEM 110 Chemistry of the Living World
- FOODSCI 100 Foundations of Food and Nutrition
- MEDSCI 142 Biology for Biomedical Science: Organ Systems
- POPLHLTH 111 Population Health
- STATS 108 Statistics for Commerce
- 105 points:
- BIOSCI 202 Genetics
- BIOSCI 203 Biochemistry
- EXERSCI 206 Exercise Nutrition
- FOODSCI 200 Food Composition and Nutrition
- MEDSCI 203 Mechanisms of Disease
- MEDSCI 205 The Physiology of Human Organ Systems
- POPLHLTH 206 Life Cycle Nutrition
- 60 points:
- BIOSCI 358 Nutritional Science
- FOODSCI 303 Sensory Science
- MEDSCI 315 Nutrition, Diet and Gene Interactions
- POPLHLTH 305 Community Nutrition
- 15 points from:
- FOODSCI 301 Food Quality Attributes
- MEDSCI 301 Molecular Basis of Disease
- MEDSCI 312 Endocrinology of Growth and Metabolism
- 15 points from:
- BIOSCI 201 Cellular and Molecular Biology
- FOODSCI 301 Food Quality Attributes
- FOODSCI 304 Food Product Development
- MEDSCI 301 Molecular Basis of Disease
- POPLHLTH 202 Research Methods in Health
- POPLHLTH 301 Strengthening Health Systems
- SCIGEN 201 Innovating for a Knowledge Society
- 15 points:
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Other Food Science and Nutrition pathways
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Help and advice
For further information and advice, please contact the Science Student Centre.
Science Student Centre
Level G, Room G 20
(Beside the entrance to the Large Chemistry Lecture Theatre)
Building 301
23 Symonds Street
Auckland 1010
Phone: +64 9 923 7020
Email: scifac@auckland.ac.nz
Web: www.food.auckland.ac.nz