Earn qualifications in nutrition
Go beyond FutureLearn and earn graduate qualifications in nutrition.
We offer online short courses that can lead to a Masters degree and Registered Associate Nutritionist status.
Can we really eat our way to good health?
Learn to make sense of today’s mixed messages on nutrition. Gain the skills you need to evaluate nutrition information, and how to apply it to your own diet.
From superfoods to diet and disease, this free online course covers:
- the scientific basis of human nutrition
- current nutrition concepts and controversies.
What you’ll study
Each week you’ll look at a different theme:
The makings of a healthy diet
- What are the principal constituents of food?
- Which components of your diet can promote wellbeing and reduce the risk of diseases?
Why do we eat what we eat?
- What are the drivers that influence our food choices?
- How do we make sense of available nutrition information?
Food and disease
- Can you really eat your way to health?
Nutrition fads, myths and the plain truth
- Is there such a thing as a ‘miracle’ diet?
- Do superfoods exist, or are our genes to blame for our current nutritional habits?
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to…
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Explain the scientific basis of human nutrition.
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Describe components of a healthy diet.
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Identify principles of healthy eating.
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Assess your own dietary intake.
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Identify good examples of evidence-based research.
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Calculate your own Body Mass Index (BMI).
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Explore the influences of food choice and eating behaviours.
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Discuss current nutrition controversies.
As part of the course, we will provide the most up-to-date, science-based information related to diet, health and lifestyle.
Professor Alex Johnstone, course coordinator
How you’ll study
Online learning
Nutrition and Wellbeing is a four-week short course you can start anytime. It’s delivered flexibly online via FutureLearn.
You can study anywhere in the world and manage your study hours to suit you.
Your teaching
You’ll look at a different theme each week, using resources including:
- videos
- articles
- online discussions
- quizzes
- real-life case studies from organisations such as Waitrose.
You’ll draw on your own experiences, sharing thoughts, hints and tips with other learners through vibrant course discussions.
Your tutors
The course is delivered by nutritional experts from the Rowett Institute and our School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition. These globally recognised centres for academic excellence play a major role in nutrition, wellbeing and human health research in the UK.
Study hours
You’ll spend around three hours per week on this course.
This course punches above its weight! I’ve enjoyed it so much. Many thanks and compliments to our wonderful tutors at the University of Aberdeen for an excellent course.
Helena Turbidy, student on FutureLearn
Where this will take you
Earn a qualification in nutrition
If you’re keen to learn more and earn graduate qualifications in this area, check out our range of credit-bearing online nutrition courses:
Online short courses in nutrition
These flexible short courses help you earn university credits towards postgraduate qualifications in nutrition, including Masters qualifications.
- Assessment of Nutritional Health
- Challenges in Global Nutrition
- Fundamentals of Human Nutrition and Metabolism
- Nutrition and Health Through the Life Stages
- Sustainable Diets and Global Food Systems
View all online nutrition courses.
Masters degrees in nutrition
Why choose the University of Aberdeen for online nutrition science courses?
Fits around full-time work
This course is designed to fit around work. With flexible hours and 24/7 study access.
Nutritional health pioneers
Study with the Rowett Institute. Governments and the food and drink industry have turned to us for research for decades.
Find out more about Rowett research
You’re in expert hands
We’ve been delivering online and distance learning for decades.
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