Phone: 8313 0546
Email: lisa.smithers@adelaide.edu.au 
Location: Level 9, AHMS building, North Terrace

Timetable details are located on MyUni.

On successful completion of this course students will be able to:

1.  Identify primary functions of public health nutrition, examples of frameworks for preventive health in nutrition, and types of prevention.

2.  Explain factors influencing major nutrition issues within a population.

3.  Explain the roles of various stakeholders in contemporary population nutrition problems and interventions.

4.  Communicate the advantages and disadvantages of different policy levers to address population nutrition challenges.

5.  Appraise information from a wide variety of sources, emphasising core concepts around impediments and enablers to the nutritional health of populations.

There is no set textbook for this course. All resources, including links to journal articles and reading lists, will be disseminated via MyUni.

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The primary means of communication outside of formal contact hours will be via MyUni. Announcements and discussion boards will be the main method of communication.  Course material will be supported by online resources via MyUni.  Material will be sequentially released in line with the teaching and learning activities.

A range of learning and teaching modes will be used in this course.  Online activities will be part of the preparation prior to the
intensive.  Interactive tutorials will help develop and clarify concepts in a supportive environment. Course seminars provide factual and conceptual information, and are supported by the reading material.  Seminars provide an opportunity for interaction, discussion and questions.  Workshops and videos will introduce students to key topics and may include guest speakers with relevant expertise.

As a general rule in any university course, you will need to allow a minimum of three independent study hours for every hour undertaken in formal class work contact. This time is needed for such activities as reading for the topic, preparation for activities in  class and work on assignments.  Around 20 hours should be set aside to prepare for the course (prior to the 5-day intensive).  Attendance at the intensive is compulsory, for all of the 5 days. 

This course is structured in 3 phases, (1) Pre-intensive, mostly involving preparatory work, (2) the Intensive, which is 5 days of face-to-face contact, and (3) Post-intensive, which involves working on the final assignment.  The Pre-intensive period includes a series of online modules that will be made available in the month prior to the Intensive.  The Intensive Mode component will involve theoretical and case-based examples of programs to address population nutrition problems.  Information on learning activities is provided in the course handbook, and includes a daily schedule for the Intensive Mode component.

There are no specific requirements for this course.

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Assessment Task	Assessment Type	Weighting	Learning Outcome(s) being addressed
Workshop participation	Summative	10%	4,5
Quizzes	Summative	40%	1-4
3000 word assignment	Summative	40%	2-4
Group presentation	Summative	10%	2-5

Students are expected to attend all 5 days of the intensive.  Attendance records will be kept.

Participation, worth 10%, will assess student’s active involvement in all aspects of the course, including engagement and interaction in class activities.

Group presentation, worth 10%, will involve students working in small groups to present a critical analysis or debate of the strengths, weaknesses and implications to different approaches for tackling a nutrition problem.  Presentations will be delivered on the last day of the intensive.

Online quizzes, worth 40% of the final grade. Quizzes will assess background and theoretical aspects of public health nutrition.  The online quizzes will be available to complete during the intensive.

Written assignment, worth 40% of the final grade. Students will be required to prepare an assignment up to 3000 words on a strategy for improving the nutritional health of a population.  The assignment will be due in the month following the completion of the intensive.

Extensions
All extensions for assignments must be requested, at the latest, by the last working day before the due date of submission.   Extensions will generally be granted only on medical or genuine compassionate grounds.  Supporting documentation must be  provided at the time a student requests an extension.  Without documentation, extensions will not be granted.  Late requests for extension will neither be accepted nor acknowledged.

Only the Course Co-ordinator(s) may grant extensions.

Supporting documentation will be required when requesting an extension. Examples of documents that are acceptable include: a  medical certificate that specifies dates of incapacity, a police report (in the case of lost computers, car & household theft etc.), a  letter from a Student Counsellor, Education and Welfare Officer (EWO) or Disability Liaison Officer that provides an assessment of  compassionate circumstances, or a letter from an independent external counsellor or appropriate professional able to verify the  student’s situation.  The length of any extension granted will take into account the period and severity of any incapacity or impact  on the student.  Extensions of more than 10 days will not be granted except in exceptional circumstances.

Late submission
Marks will be deducted when assignments for which no extension has been granted are handed in late.

All assignments, including those handed in late, will be assessed on their merits.  In the case of late assignments where no  extension has been granted, 5 percentage points of the total marks possible per day will be deducted.  If an assignment that is 2  days late is awarded 65% on its merits, the mark will then be reduced by 10% (5% per day for 2 days) to 55%.  If that same  assignment is 4 days late, the mark will be reduced by 20% (5% per day for 4 days) to 45%, and so on.

The School of Public Health reserves the right to refuse to accept an assignment that is more than 7 days late.

Assignments submitted after the due date may not be graded in time to be returned on the listed return dates.

Students submitting examinable written work who request (and receive) an extension that takes them beyond the examination period are advised that there is no guarantee that their grades will be processed in time to meet usual University deadlines.
 
Resubmission
If a student is dissatisfied with an assessment grade they should follow the Student Grievance Resolution Process  <https://www.adelaide.edu.au/student/grievance/process/>.  Students who are not satisfied with a particular assessment result should raise their concerns with Course Co-ordinator(s) in the first instance.  This must be done within 10 business days of the date of notification of the result.  Resubmission of any assignment is subject to the agreement of the Course Co-ordinator(s) and  will only be permitted for the most compelling of reasons.

This course was offered for the first time in 2018. All of the students who undertook the course have provided feedback that they were satistfied with the quality of the course. Key comments were that the breadth of topics was good, that the 'big picture' view of population-level nutrition was valuable (as other courses e.g. biochemistry, biology did not cover this material), that guest speakers were important for adding variety and lectures were engaging. Students valued the structure of the course, particularly having a weekend in the middle of the 5-day intensive for a rest. In line with student feedback, the wording of the quiz questions was modified to remove double negatives and the choice of topics for the group presentation was also modified.