Degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics (Aff. Centre ADEMA)
240 credits - ADEMA University College
| Duration | 4 years / 240 credits |
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| Level MECES | 2 |
| Spots for new students |
36 places for the academic year 2024-25
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| Teaching method | In-Person Classes |
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The Degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics is mainly aimed at equipping students with the necessary knowledge and the appropriate professional practices so that they can acquire the skills and abilities that will enable them to pursue a career within the field of Nutrition and Dietetics, and to ensure that they are prepared to perform in different areas, in activities whose primary goal is to enhance the eating habits and overall nutrition of individuals or groups, in line with basic public health and prevention principles.
The programme in Human Nutrition and Dietetics qualifies graduates to work in a regulated profession. They are therefore designed in accordance with the requirements set out in Order CIN/730/2009.
What skills will you acquire?
The curriculum for the Degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics is designed to provide students with the inherent skills required to be a dietician and nutritionist, in accordance with Order CIN/730/2009 of 18th March.
These skills are framed within the following core blocks:
- Professional values, attitude and conduct
- Information communication and management skills
- Understanding and applying food science
- Understanding and applying nutritional and health sciences
- Understanding the foundations of public health and community nutrition
- Acquiring the ability for legal and scientific management and advice
- Acquiring the ability to manage quality and mass catering
- Developing the capacity for critical analysis and research.
What profile should you have?
- A general prior interest in health sciences
- General knowledge in biology and chemistry
- User-level computer skills
- The ability to communicate orally and in writing in the official languages of the Balearic Islands
- The ability to communicate orally and in writing in English
- A vocation for health service activities
- An interest in nutrition
- An interest in people's health and wellbeing
- The ability to work hard and with dedication
- The ability for reading comprehension, and oral and written expression
- The ability to work on specific multi-disciplinary and/or international teams
- A critical, analytical and flexible capacity
- Decision-making capacity
- Ethical commitment
- Personal commitment skills
- A scientific attitude
- An open mind towards technological progress and new techniques
- An entrepreneurial, creative and innovative spirit.
What career opportunities will you have?
Graduates in human nutrition and dietetics will be able to professionally practice as dieticians and nutritionists in clinical and residential settings, community or public health environments, mass catering, the food industry, the advice/marketing industry, and teaching and research. The degree provides students with the professional skills governed by Act 44/2003 of 21st November on the organisation of health professions. According to the manual for the Degree in Human Nutriton and Dietetics (National Quality Assurance and Accreditation Assessement Agency) on career opportunities, the professional activities of dieticians and nutritionists are mainly centred on:
- Food and nutrition education
- Clinical nutrition
- Teaching and training
- Sport, fitness and health
- Social/commercial mass catering
- Research, development and innovation
- Marketing, communication and advertising
- Production
- Primary health care
- Process and product quality management and control
- Food safety
- Public/community health
- Legal, scientific and technical advice services.
Travel and Learn
The UIB offers students the chance to take part in different exchange and mobility programmes:
- Exchange and mobility programmes: to complete part of your studies at another university in Spain, the European Union, and around the world, or to get work experience at businesses in the European Union, managed by the International Relations Service.
- Volunteer work experience and projects with university development cooperation programmes in least developed countries, run through the development cooperation programmes managed by the Cooperation for Development and Solidarity Office (OCDS).
High-quality official study
Legislation requires that official Spanish Degrees receive positive evaluations by the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA). This process is called verification, and it serves to ensure that the development programme in which you will participate will provide the skills and learning results that it is supposed to.
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