University of Canberra

Course Details

Graduate Diploma in Nutritional Science

Course Description

This course will prepare you for a Master of Nutrition (if you’re super keen on foody-type science) and fine-tune your knowledge of biochemistry, human physiology and how nutrition impacts on disease, society and general health. Imagine the satisfaction you’ll feel with a rewarding career in the health department, a corporate nutrition business or even in the food industry, where you’ll be making a positively healthy impact on people’s lives. Study a Graduate Diploma in Nutritional Science at UC and you will: master the art of identifying, manipulating, interpreting and presenting relevant information and data develop the confidence to anticipate, define and analyse new problems in your field learn to implement and evaluate problem solving techniques and strategies, including critical and creative thinking create and present new ideas and arguments with confidence and clarity act in environmentally sustainable ways and accept service to the community as the primary purpose of your professional life.

Course Duration

NumberDuration
1year

Career outcomes

Opportunities exist for Graduate Diploma in Nutritional Science graduates in a range of sectors, including in: private consulting state and federal health departments corporate nutrition schools and community health centres food and retail industries health services management.

Graduate Diploma in Nutritional Science University of Canberra