Master’s degreeScienze della Nutrizione per la Salute Umana LM-61
| Study location | Italy, Bari |
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| Type | Master's Degree, full-time |
| Nominal duration | 2 years (120 ECTS) |
| Study language | Italian |
| Awards | Master’s degree |
| Course code | 8971/PDS0-2020/2020 |
| Tuition fee | For information please refer to the Regolamento tasse e contributi |
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| Entry qualification | Undergraduate diploma (or higher) Open access course. The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / Italian. Often you can get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original. You must take the original entry qualification documents along with you when you finally go to the university. |
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| Language requirements | Italian Non-eu students residing abroad who would like to enroll in a study course completely taught in Italian, have to prove their knowledge of the language through an Italian language test. The following categories are excluded from this obligation: |
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| Other requirements | English (B2 level) a) 6 credits in physics, 6 credits in chemistry |
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Overview
The Master’s Degree Course in Nutrition Sciences for Human Health (SNSU), Class LM-61, combines skills in the biological, biotechnological, microbiological, and agri-food fields with specific skills deriving from medical sectors that interface with human nutrition problems, including dietary sciences, internal medicine, gastroenterology, endocrinology, pediatrics, and hygiene.
The course provides solid scientific education on the functional characteristics of the human being and nutrition, the evaluation of the quality of nutrition, related pathological conditions, and the therapeutic role of nutritional interventions.
Knowledge of the most appropriate methodologies for accurately assessing nutritional status and body composition is also of particular importance. Evaluations are essential to outline personalized nutritional protocols aimed at maintaining optimal health conditions and preventing pathologies related to eating habits, but also to address the peculiar needs of individuals who, being in particular phases of life such as childhood, pregnancy, lactation, senescence, or in pathological conditions.
Program structure
https://www.uniba.it/it/corsi/scienze-nutrizione-salute-umana/studiare/piano-di-studi/piano-di-studi-2024-2025
Career opportunities
The course prepares for the profession of:
- Biologists and related professions
- Researchers and graduate technicians in biological sciences
Roles of responsibility in various working contexts:
- Public or private health institutions involved in basic and applied research, with particular reference to the area of the effects of nutrition;
- Profession of nutritionist: nutritional assessment and prescription of food plans; training, education, dissemination, and publicity activities in the field of food quality and safety;
scientific information;
- Food and pharmaceutical companies operating in the field of developing and enhancing food products with a high nutritional impact;
- management of labeling and information on nutrition and health claims (health claims).
nutrition and health claims (health claims);
- Development of certification systems; management of regulatory activities and the application of methods for assessing the safety of conventional, dietetic, and nutraceutical foods and their suitability for human consumption.