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The course will explore the complex nature of sustainable diets within a global food system. It will give you an understanding of the need for healthy and more environmentally sustainable diets to tackle some of the greatest global challenges facing us today, including poor dietary health, climate change and environmental degradation, and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It will cover the multidimensional attributes and the challenge of combining these attributes into a single entity of sustainable diets. The course will explore synergies and trade-offs between attributes, barriers and drivers of change and potential solutions to achieving sustainable diets within a global food system. In addition, external influences affecting the resilience and changes to the food system will be discussed.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course will illustrate the need for sustainable diets, describe the complexity and multidimensional nature of them, and the challenges of achieving them in a global food system. Students will learn about why sustainable diets are needed, what they comprise, and how different attributes, such as nutrition, environment, culture and economics, are factored in to their design at both an individual and global level. The course will discuss synergies, trade-offs, and the solutions and compromises across the different attributes, as well as the external influence of the global food system.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 33 | Feedback Weeks | 36 | |
| Feedback | Word Count | 1000 | ||
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Apply | Explain the complexity of sustainable diets, the different attributes they are comprised of and how they are combined into a single entity (synergies and trade-offs). |
| Conceptual | Understand | Describe the need for sustainable diets both nationally and globally. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 60 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 39 | Feedback Weeks | 42 | |
| Feedback |
10-minute presentation. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Apply | Explain the complexity of sustainable diets, the different attributes they are comprised of and how they are combined into a single entity (synergies and trade-offs). |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Judge external influences of a global food system in delivering sustainable diets. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Evaluate the drivers and challenges of achieving sustainable diets. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Procedural | Evaluate | Evaluate the drivers and challenges of achieving sustainable diets. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Describe the need for sustainable diets both nationally and globally. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Judge external influences of a global food system in delivering sustainable diets. |
| Conceptual | Apply | Explain the complexity of sustainable diets, the different attributes they are comprised of and how they are combined into a single entity (synergies and trade-offs). |
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