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BND4122

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 31 December 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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24 points, SCA Band 2, 0.500 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational UnitDepartment of Nutrition and Dietetics
OfferedClayton First semester 2015 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2015 (Day)
Clayton Full year 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)Professor Helen Truby and Dr Kate Huggins

Synopsis

Each student will undertake a research project under the supervision of an approved member of the academic or research staff of Monash University. The choice of project and supervisor will be the responsibility of the student, in consultation with an academic advisor from the Nutrition and Dietetic unit. The research project will constitute the major portion of the students' work and will be conducted over a full year. This unit will include a systematic review, results and discussion of the research project. Students will present their research results in a seminar format.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. be able to execute and analyse a research project, or set of studies;
  2. be proficient in computer based data manipulation, analysis, presentation and word processing;
  3. be able to write up scientific work in a report suitable for publication;
  4. demonstrate communication skills in both oral and written presentation to specialist scientific audience;
  5. have refined or acquired a range of technical skills appropriate for their project; and
  6. have gained insight into the research process in an area relating to the health sciences.

Assessment

Assessment from BND4122 will contribute to 65% to the final mark for Bachelor of Nutrition (Honours) comprising:
Written thesis of not more than 20,000 words (100%)
Oral thesis presentation

Workload requirements

Research project related work: 42 hours per week.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Helen Truby

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Nutrition and dietetics

Prerequisites

BND4111, BND4121.