This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills, knowledge and experiential learning to enter the dietetics and nutrition industry.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 4 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- General skills
- Biophysics
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Psychology
- Nutrition
Second year subjects:
- Psychology
- Nutrition
- Foods
- Biochemistry
- Physiology
- Microbiology
- Molecular and cell biology in humans
- Business management
- Community development and group work
Third year subjects:
- Psychology
- Clinical pathology and pharmacology
- Community nutrition
- Nutrition research
- Quantity nutrition
Fourth year subjects:
- Community nutrition
- Clinical nutrition
- Nutrition research
- Quantity nutrition
Careers: dietician, nutritionist
Source: www.ufs.ac.za