FBMPUC: Public Health Nutrition and Consumer Food Choice

Module code: FBMPUC

Module provider: Food and Nutritional Sciences; School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy

Credits: 20

Level: Postgraduate Masters

When you'll be taught: Semester 2

Module convenor: Miss Ezgi Ozen, email: ezgi.ozen@reading.ac.uk

Pre-requisite module(s):

Co-requisite module(s):

Pre-requisite or Co-requisite module(s):

Module(s) excluded:

Placement information: NA

Academic year: 2024/5

Available to visiting students: Yes

Talis reading list: Yes

Last updated: 27 June 2024

Overview

Module aims and purpose

This module will introduce you into policy, food choice and nutrition behaviour change in the context of public health nutrition. Factors that influence food choice across the lifespan will be explored and debated. You will then be asked to conduct research to ascertain a real word nutrition issue in their local environment. You will develop a behaviour change intervention and communication plan based on your findings and understand how this applies to the Association for Nutrition Standards of Ethics, Conduct and Performance. The module aims to enable you to:

• Develop an in-depth understanding of health behaviour, behaviour change and practical applications of this knowledge in order to improve nutrition at individual, community, national and international levels.
• Dompare and contrast public health nutrition strategies and policies.
• Develop an understanding of the importance of ethics in human data collection.
• Illustrate of the factors (social class, age, gender, family, ethnicity, culture, religion, income) that influence food choice in individuals and populations.
• Demonstrate how to communicate nutrition to different audiences.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, it is expected that students will be able to:

1. Discuss the relevant theories of behaviour change and demonstrate how these can be applied and then assessed in relation to nutrition public health interventions.
2. Research and determine a nutrition related health problem within the local environment.
3. Design and critically evaluate a public health nutrition intervention and communication plan.
4. Recognise the main factors that influence food choice throughout the lifespan.
5. Demonstrate the importance of ethics in human research

Module content

• Food choice models
• Food choice throughout the lifespan
• Economic and social factors influencing food choice
• Models of health behaviour change
• Behaviour change techniques
• Developing and critically evaluation public health interventions
• Working as nutritionist and applying the AfN Standards of Ethics
• Conduct and Performance to case studies, nutrition communication.

Structure

Teaching and learning methods

Students will acquire information via online recorded lectures. Seminars and workshops will be used to explore the information in more detail. Small group discussion sessions will be undertaken with staff to feedforward on their learning and assessment.

Study hours

At least 34 hours of scheduled teaching and learning activities will be delivered in person, with the remaining hours for scheduled and self-scheduled teaching and learning activities delivered either in person or online. You will receive further details about how these hours will be delivered before the start of the module.

Please note the independent study hours above are notional numbers of hours; each student will approach studying in different ways. We would advise you to reflect on your learning and the number of hours you are allocating to these tasks.

Semester 1 The hours in this column may include hours during the Christmas holiday period.

Semester 2 The hours in this column may include hours during the Easter holiday period.

Summer The hours in this column will take place during the summer holidays and may be at the start and/or end of the module.

Assessment

Requirements for a pass

Students need to achieve all of the following to pass this module:

1. A mark of 50% in each assessment
2. An overall module mark of 50% 

Summative assessment

Penalties for late submission of summative assessment

The Support Centres will apply the following penalties for work submitted late:

Assessments with numerical marks

• where the piece of work is submitted after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): 10% of the total marks available for that piece of work will be deducted from the mark for each working day (or part thereof) following the deadline up to a total of three working days;
• the mark awarded due to the imposition of the penalty shall not fall below the threshold pass mark, namely 40% in the case of modules at Levels 4-6 (i.e. undergraduate modules for Parts 1-3) and 50% in the case of Level 7 modules offered as part of an Integrated Masters or taught postgraduate degree programme;
• where the piece of work is awarded a mark below the threshold pass mark prior to any penalty being imposed, and is submitted up to three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline), no penalty shall be imposed;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): a mark of zero will be recorded.

Assessments marked Pass/Fail

• where the piece of work is submitted within three working days of the deadline (or any formally agreed extension of the deadline): no penalty will be applied;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension of the deadline): a grade of Fail will be awarded.

The University policy statement on penalties for late submission can be found at: /cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/qap/penaltiesforlatesubmission.pdf

You are strongly advised to ensure that coursework is submitted by the relevant deadline. You should note that it is advisable to submit work in an unfinished state rather than to fail to submit any work.

Formative assessment

Formative assessment is any task or activity which creates feedback (or feedforward) for you about your learning, but which does not contribute towards your overall module mark.

• Ethics forms
• Development of a questionnaire
• Data acquisition analysis and interprétation from questionnaire data

Reassessment

Additional costs