Master of Dietetics
Curtin University
Type of institution: University/Higher Education Institution
Level: Postgraduate
CRICOS: 00301J
Master Degrees (Coursework) prepare students to apply advanced knowledge for professional practice, scholarship and further learning corresponding to AQF level 9 qualifications. Dietetics involves the study of those medical aspects of disease that have a nutritional component in prevention or treatment. Dietetics is concerned with the science and art of providing nutritional care for patients, clients, communities and populations differing widely in economic, social, psychological and physiological conditions. Dietitians are recognised as a member of interprofessional teams in hospitals, primary health care, private practice, aged care, disability sectors and in the community or public health settings. Dietitians also work in food service and food industry and research teams.Course overview noteWork integrated learning and fieldwork placement activities occur throughout the course and extensively in the final year and in particular, one fieldwork block continues beyond the end of the final semester
Structure
Credit Points: 400
Subjects
- NUTR5000 Dietetic and Food Service Management
- NUTR5007 Dietetic Counselling Theory and Practice
- STAT6000 Epidemiology and Evidence
- MEDS5009 Pathophysiology for Dietetics
- NUTR5003 Advanced Public Health Nutrition Practice
- NUTR5002 Dietetic Professional Studies
- EPID6001 Quantitative Methods
- HEAL5005 Health System Planning
- HEAL6010 Organisation of Health Care Systems
- HLPR6004 Diversity and Difference in Health Promotion
- HLPR6006 Politics and Power in Public Health
- INCD5000 Social, Cultural and Historical Contexts of Indigenous Australians
- INDS5001 Introduction to Indigenous Australians
- INDS5009 Indigenous Research Methodologies
- NUTR5006 Nutrition and Dietetics Research Project
- PUBH6005 Global Public Health Challenges
- NUTR6011 Dietetic Professional Placement
- MEDS6021 Advances in Clinical Nutrition
- NUTR6003 Dietetic Professional Practice
- NUTR6005 Dietetic Practice Techniques
- MEDS6022 Medical Nutrition Therapy
Standard entry requirements
An equivalent undergraduate degree needs to meet the Dietitians Australia requirements for entry to a Graduate Entry Master. These specify that 50% of each of the first and second years of undergraduate study must be composed of bioscience, chemistry, physiology and biochemistry as outlined in the Accreditation Standards for Dietetic Education Programs. Students also need to have completed the equivalent of 100 credit points of undergraduate nutrition at second and third year level.
Study information
| Campus | Fees | Entry | Mid year intake | Attendance |
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| Curtin Perth | Domestic: $50,550 International: $86,590 | No |
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