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BA Education and Food & Nutritional Sciences (With Foundation Year)
About this course
Education and food and nutritional sciences is an unusual combination that brings together two disciplines with profound relevance to human health and development. Education is the study and practice of how people learn, how educational systems are organised and governed, and how social, cultural, and political forces shape what happens in classrooms and schools. Food and nutritional sciences examines what we eat, how nutrients affect health and development, and how food systems operate, combining biology, chemistry, and social science in the study of one of the most fundamental human activities. At Liverpool Hope University this four-year programme includes a sandwich year, a year abroad, and work placement experience, giving your studies a strong professional and international dimension. In education you will explore the personal, social, cultural, and political forces that shape learning, both in the UK and internationally, developing a comparative and critical understanding of educational systems and practice. In food and nutritional sciences you will engage with the scientific study of nutrition, food composition, dietary behaviour, and the relationship between nutrition and health across the lifespan. The combination is particularly relevant to careers in school food policy, health education, community nutrition, and educational settings that address wellbeing alongside academic development. Graduates from this programme work in education, school and community health promotion, public health nutrition, food education, and policy. Those interested in teaching may go on to postgraduate teacher training, while others work in health and wellbeing roles within schools, local government, and the NHS. The food science dimension opens additional pathways in nutrition counselling (with further training), food industry roles, and research. The placement experience built into the course provides professional skills and contacts before graduation, and the year abroad broadens your understanding of both education and food systems in an international context.
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