HSN753 - Research Practice in Human Nutrition

Year:

2025 unit information

Enrolment modes: Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s): 1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Cohort rule:

H511, H517, H616 and H714 students: enrol in online mode only.

H748 students: enrol via Campus mode at Burwood (Melbourne) only.

Other Postgraduate students who wish to enrol in this unit:

If you are enrolled in an on campus course, you can enrol in the on campus unit offering and you will need to request a manual enrolment from a Student Adviser in Student Central.

If you are enrolled in an online course, you need to enrol into the online unit offering.

Prerequisite:

HSN715

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Study commitment

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Scheduled learning activities - campus

5 x 2 hour seminars per trimester

Scheduled learning activities - online

5 x 2 hour online seminars per trimester

Content

This unit will provide students with an overview and understanding of the research process. Students will gain experience in either quantitative or qualitative research methods through the completion of an independent research project. Through completion of this unit, students will develop skills in critiquing literature within the area of nutrition sciences, defining a research question, writing aims and hypotheses, developing research methodologies, conducting data analysis and preparing and disseminating research findings.

Unit Fee Information

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