Master's Degree in Food and Human Nutrition
Academic year 2024-25
You can also consult this information for the academic year 2023-24.
See the pre-registration, admission and registration deadlines for the 2024-25 academic year for this master's programme.
To be awarded the degree, 60 ECTS credits must be passed as follows:
24 ECTS from mandatory subjects.
12 ECTS from elective subjects, which must be taken on one of the stated pathways.
12 ECTS from External Placements.
12 ECTS from the Master's Thesis.
Supplementary Training
The following subjects may be taken as supplementary training by students with non-Life Science or Health Science undergraduate degrees:
- 11716 Physiology of Digestion
- 11717 Macronutrients and Micronutrients. Energy from Nutrition
- 11718 Bioavailability of Micronutrients
- 11719 Metabolic Interrelationships of Nutrients: Inter-organ Cycles
- 11720 Nutritional Quality and Value of Food
- 11721 Health Education
- 11722 Lifestyles and Health
- 11723 Advances in Food and Nutrition
Observations
This Master's programme is jointly taught with the University of Granada. The following subjects are taught at the UGR:
- 11685 Methods Used in Assessing Nutritional Status
- 11686 Advanced Analytical Techniques in Nutritional Experimentation
- 11687 Introduction to Experimental Nutrition
- 11692 Modulation of Gene Expression Mediated by Nutrients
- 11699 Endocrine and Toxic Disruptors in the Human Diet
- 11700 Nutrition and the Digestive System: Digestive Secretions
- 11701 Nutrition and the Digestive System: Absorption
- 11707 Study of Minerals in the Diet with an Antioxidant Effect
- 11718 Bioavailability of Micronutrients
- 11723 Advances in Food and Nutrition
| Name | Type | Credits | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11725 - Final Master's Project | Master's Thesis | 12,0 | Yearlong |
| 11724 - Practical Placements | External Academic Placements | 12,0 | Yearlong |
| 11688 - Physiological and nutritional basics in toddlers and school-age children | Mandatory | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11689 - Physiological and Nutritional Bases in Pregnancy, Breast-feeding, Adolescents and Adults | Mandatory | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11690 - Physiological, metabolic and nutritional basics in physical activity | Mandatory | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11691 - Physiological and nutritional basics in older people | Mandatory | 6,0 | Yearlong |
Clinical Nutrition
- Mallorca
| Name | Credits | Period |
|---|---|---|
| 11697 - Oxidative stress and ageing | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11698 - Molecular and nutritional basics of cancer | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11702 - Nutrition, Factors of Cardiovascular Risk and Metabolic Syndrome | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11704 - Enteral, Parenteral and Artificial Nutrition | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11705 - Potential Anti-carcinogens and Health | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11706 - Food-Medicine Interaction | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11692 - Modulation of gene expression mediated by nutrients (UGR) | 6,0 | |
| 11699 - Endocrine and Toxic Disruptors in the Human Diet (UGR) | 6,0 | |
| 11700 - Nutrition and the Digestive System: Digestive Secretions (UGR) | 6,0 | |
| 11701 - Nutrition and the Digestive System: Absorption (UGR) | 6,0 | |
| 11703 - Nutrition and Processes of Pathological Calcification | 6,0 | |
| 11707 - Study of Minerals in Diet with an Anti-oxidant Effect (UGR) | 6,0 |
Food Applied to Tourism
- Mallorca
| Name | Credits | Period |
|---|---|---|
| 11710 - Nutrition and Food in Special Groups | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11713 - Food Allergies, Infections, Contaminants and Poisonings | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11708 - Group Catering: Principles and Applications for the Tourist Industry | 6,0 | |
| 11709 - Set Menus, Á la Carte Menus and buffets | 6,0 | |
| 11711 - Traditional Food in the Mediterranean: the Balearic Islands, Andalusia and | 6,0 | |
| 11712 - Quality Control in Food Preparation Centres | 6,0 | |
| 11714 - Basic Regulations for Preventing Occupational Hazards and for Safety at Wor | 6,0 | |
| 11715 - Food and Selective Restaurant Inspections | 6,0 |
Nutrition and Food Quality
- Mallorca
| Name | Credits | Period |
|---|---|---|
| 11716 - Physiology of Digestion | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11720 - Nutritional Quality and Value of Food | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11721 - Health Education | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11722 - Lifestyles and Health | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11680 - Nutrition in the age of the great ancient and medieval civilisations | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11681 - The Flow of People and Food across Continents: the Globalisation of Food | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11682 - Nutritional behaviour | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11693 - Mediterranean diet and health | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11694 - Nutritional Education and Food Guides | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11695 - Complimentary diet and its design | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11696 - Diet and Sport | 6,0 | Yearlong |
| 11717 - Macronutrients and Micronutrients Energetics of Nutrition | 6,0 | |
| 11718 - Bio-availability of Micronutrients (UGR) | 6,0 | |
| 11719 - Metabolic Interrelationships of Nutrients Inter-organic Cycles | 6,0 | |
| 11723 - Advances in Diet and Nutrition | 6,0 | |
| 11683 - Investigation Methodology | 6,0 | |
| 11684 - Epidemiology of nutrition | 6,0 | |
| 11685 - Methods Used in Assessing Nutritional State | 6,0 | |
| 11686 - Analítiques Techniques Methods in Nutritional Experimentation | 6,0 | |
| 11687 - Introduction to Experimental Nutrition | 6,0 |