Hiroshima Jogakuin University
Nutrition

Hiroshima, Japan

DEGREE TYPE

Bachelor's degree

DURATION

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PACE

APPLICATION DEADLINE

EARLIEST START DATE

Apr 2024

STUDY FORMAT

On-Campus

Key Summary

About: The Nutrition program focuses on the science of food and its role in health. You'll explore topics like nutritional biochemistry, dietetics, and community nutrition. This program helps you develop skills in assessing dietary needs and creating nutrition plans for individuals and groups. Courses often include practical experiences and research projects. The program duration may vary, but many are typically one to two years full-time.

Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue a range of careers, including registered dietitian nutritionist, public health nutritionist, wellness coach, or food service manager. Opportunities also exist in research, nutrition policy, and health education.

In the Department of Nutrition and Health Promotion, basic competence, including knowledge, skills, and attitudes, are cultivated so that students can cope with various specialized fields. Students learn nutrition and health management methods suitable for target populations. Students also develop the capability to connect the evidence-based science of nutrition with people's lives. This gives them the expertise to develop improvement plans for their client's actual diet and eating behavior, which allows them to put diet improvement activities into practice with a sense of ethics. Moreover, they cultivate capabilities as specialists of diet and health who can appropriately deal with social changes and the needs of different groups of people to make a positive contribution to society.

The specialized areas of dietitians covers a wide range, such as, medical care, welfare, dietary education, health promotion and sports. Every dietitian’s work is carried out based on science and ethics.

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