SPCO107-22S2 (C) Semester Two 2022

Sport Nutrition

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 July 2022
End Date: Sunday, 13 November 2022
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 31 July 2022
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 2 October 2022

Description

This course provides an understanding of nutritional principles for healthy living and maintaining and improving sporting performance. The course will identify recommended nutritional practices for various populations including athletes, recreational exercisers, and groups with specific nutritional needs. The use of nutritional supplements in sporting performance will also be examined.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Carl Petersen

Lecturers

Matt Hobbs , Steven Gieseg and Julia Rucklidge

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Lab Worksheets 20% Covers each lab's content. Due each lab.
Experiment Poster 16 Sep 2022 40% Collect data and write up a nutritional intervention experiment in a poster format. This is due 9am. Learning outcomes 4, 6.
1.5 Hour Test 05 Oct 2022 40% Covers the theoretical content of the course delivered in the first 6 weeks. Learning outcomes 1- 5. Time to be confirmed.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Campbell B; NSCA’s Guide to Sport and Exercise Nutrition ; 2nd Edition; Human Kinetics, 2020 (Note required text Campbell OR Dunford & Doyle).

Dunford, Marie & Doyle, J. Andrew; Nutrition for sport and exercise ; 4th edition; Cengage, 2019 (Note required text Campbell OR Dunford & Doyle).

Recommended Reading

Williams, Melvin H. , Rawson, Eric S., Branch, J. David; Nutrition for health, fitness, and sport ; 11th edition;

Readings and other supplementary information to support learning will be made available through the course LEARN site.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $926.00

International fee $4,563.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Health Sciences .

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