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NUT4121

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 25 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

18 points, SCA Band 2, 0.375 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics

Coordinator(s)

Dr Kate Huggins

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • Second semester 2016 (Day)
  • Full year 2016 (Day)

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 for the Nutrition and Dietetics 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 the components of literature review and description of methods. Students will present their research proposal in a seminar format.

Outcomes

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

  1. gain experience in undertaking an evidenced-based review of the scientific literature in their discipline;
  2. discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed study design for their research project;
  3. describe the methodology required for their research project and summarise the logistical process involved in data collection;
  4. outline the main statistical methods that will be used in their research project and demonstrate competency in using the software programs required for these analyses; and
  5. demonstrate a high level of competency in oral communication skills to a specialist scientific audience.

Assessment

Assessment from NUT4121 will contribute 20% to the final mark for Bachelor of Nutrition (Honours) comprising:
Evidenced-based literature review (100%)*
Oral research proposal
Draft methods chapter

*Note that full quantitative assessment of this task will be undertaken at the end of Semester 2 in conjunction with Thesis examination.

Workload requirements

Research project related work: 36 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

Co-requisites

NUT4111.