Bachelor in Human Nutrition and Dietetics

Presentation of the Bachelor in Nutrition

Eating and drinking are basic human needs; in order to survive, humans must be nourished. But eating is more than just ingesting nutrients. Food does not only have a physiological value or function, but also a social one; it is ingested in a cultural environment.

It is true that promoting and maintaining a healthy diet that reaches the entire population is the main objective of preventing chronic non-communicable diseases, such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, etc. However, evidence-based dietary strategies for healthy eating in our population include public food policies, interventions in the food environment, and effective communication and education strategies.

We know that maintaining a healthy diet is crucial for our health. Thus, the ADEMA University School seeks to lead this field with new research and a quality educational program for future Dietitians-Nutritionists. It offers its students the opportunity to acquire the necessary tools in the field of nutrition and dietetics, based on project-based learning and clinical practice.

Why study Nutrition and Dietetics at ADEMA?

Clinical practice

Clinical practice as a learning process is essential for the development of practical skills of future professionals, by familiarizing them with real work contexts.

ADEMA has an integrated clinic made up of Dietitians-Nutritionists, health professionals specialised in the field of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. Dietary and nutritional advisory services are offered in order to improve people’s diet, advise on a healthier lifestyle and/or treat different diseases (digestive, cardiovascular, allergies and intolerances, etc.).

Our students actively participate in the clinic from the first year, taking part in the practical work of the bachelor subjects and through the Clinical Practice Training Program under the name Clinical Nutrition Training – CNT. This Service Learning methodology model allows students to acquire specific skills, as well as to have learning in a real environment, contributing to the demand/need of society in this field.

PBL: Project Based Learning

Through different collaborative projects, students acquire practical skills by testing theoretical knowledge, preparing them for real situations. Some of the projects:

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Biomarkers
AOX: Antioxidant Diets
Social Perception of Food Allergies and Intolerances (SPFAI)
Health Observatory
Nutritional advice for Mallorcan schools
Stoichiometry of Nutrition
Cooking: Culinary Skills
Dissemination Action in Nutrition 360º
NutriOlympics
International Nutrition Week

Nutritional advice for Mallorcan schools

Students and teachers at the GNHD review and prepare menus for educational centers, within a nutritional counseling program during early childhood (0-6 years)

Health Observatory

Students collect epidemiological data, anthropometric measurements and questionnaires of various kinds that are carried out thanks to the voluntary participation of schoolchildren, creating a general registry of Balearic health.

AOX: Antioxidant Diets

Evaluation of the antioxidant potential of a dietary pattern rich in fruits and vegetables to enhance the beneficial effects of molecules with antioxidant capacity.

Cooking: Culinary skills

Practice in real cooking aimed at learning the portions/quantities of food to improve the design, planning or preparation of diets and menus, providing better care to patients.

Faculty: top-level professionals

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ADEMA SCHOLARSHIPS

Applicable to the Bachelor in Human Nutrition and Dietetics

Adema has its own Scholarship Program with the aim of supporting people interested in starting or continuing their training.

The following list summarizes the ADEMA SCHOLARSHIPS applicable to the Bachelor in Human Nutrition and Dietetics.

1. Preference Scholarship

The Preference Scholarship is aimed at incoming students who formalize their enrollment after the publication of the list confirming their admission until before the publication of the next list. Applicable for those admitted in the 1st and 2nd list.

These students will receive a discount of 500€ on the tuition fee.

2. Dual Bachelor Scholarships

Scholarship for students enrolled in the Bachelor in Human Nutrition and Dietetics who wish to simultaneously pursue the studies of Higher Technical Training Cycles in Physical Conditioning or Medium Technician in Pharmacy and Parapharmacy.

The Scholarship will mean up to a 50% discount on the total tuition of the studies of
Formative Cycle.

3. Opportunity Scholarship

The Opportunity Scholarship is open to incoming students and is aimed at people with financial difficulties in pursuing their studies due to their economic, social or family situation.

The amount of the Opportunity Scholarships is a bonus from 25% to 100% of the total annual cost of study. Up to two scholarships may be granted per bachelor program taught privately at ADEMA.

4. Talent Scholarships

The purpose of the Talent Scholarships is to recognize students with a high academic profile who wish to pursue or continue their studies in any of the courses offered privately at ADEMA.

Talent scholarships are 15% of the tuition fee. Up to two scholarships may be awarded per degree.

5. Adema Family Scholarship

Any student who has or has had first-degree blood relatives studying or working at ADEMA is eligible for the Family Scholarship.

A 10% fee will be applied to the first tuition payment.

6. Participate Scholarships

The Participate Scholarship consists of students participating in and supporting events organized by the university (international weeks, congresses, events, etc.), welcome day, open house, attendance and support at university fairs or orientation talks, solidarity or outreach work.

By completing a total of 40 hours, the student will be able to obtain between 10% and 15% discount on his or her registration for the next course.

7. Adema Scholarship + Social Commitment

The ADEMA + Foundation carries out different assistance actions in Mallorca with vulnerable families and has international programs. Among these actions are included: Health promotion activities, activities in the university clinic, international cooperation programs, etc. Students who receive the Participa Scholarship will have to cover a total of 50 hours of work among those described for the ADEMA + Foundation during the academic year.

The ADEMA + Social Commitment scholarships are up to 500 € applicable to the stay in Kenya within the Solidarity Project of international collaboration “Island to Island” of ADEMA.

8. Alumni Scholarships

The Alumni Scholarship is born from ADEMA’s confidence in its undergraduate, graduate and master’s bachelor students and its commitment to support their personal and professional growth and development. They are intended for alumni of the studies taught at ADEMA and want to opt to continue their studies that are taught in private mode in the center.

The Alumni Scholarships represent up to a 15% discount applied to the total cost of tuition.

9. Collaborate in Research Grant

The Collaborate in Research Grant is aimed at students in their final years of university studies who wish to begin their research activity by collaborating in research being carried out at ADEMA.

Students who receive the Colabora en Investigación Scholarship will have to cover a total of 40 hours of research work during the academic year.

10. Novel Research Project Grant

The Novel Research Project Grant is intended to support the implementation and/or development of research lines led by new ADEMA researchers.

11. Research Project Grants

The Research Project Grant, aimed at ADEMA research groups, is intended to help recognized groups to fine-tune their research lines/projects, not previously funded, in order to obtain new research results.

*Subject to Adema’s general research grants regulations.

12. TFG and TFM Awards

The ADEMA TFG/TFM Awards are intended to recognize students whose work meets the criteria of originality, relevance of the work, argumentation, relevance of the topic, writing and organization of the work, relevance and timeliness of the bibliography.

The prize consists of a free stay in Kenya within the Solidarity Project of international collaboration “Island to Island” of ADEMA. The prize is personal and non-transferable.

The research grants committee will study the bachelor’s and master’s degree final projects that apply to participate in the TFG/TFM Awards in order to award them.

*Subject to Adema’s general research grants regulations.

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Professional Opportunities

A health professional acting in the following areas:

Collective Catering: Participates in the management and organization of food services, ensures food quality and safety, and plans and assesses balanced menus adapted to the characteristics of different groups of people (hospitals or social centers, school cafeterias, companies, etc.).
Clinical: Works in healthcare institutions (hospitals, health centres, private practice). Develops personalised dietary plans for healthy or sick people and proposes nutritional support based on medical diagnosis.
Nutrition Consultation in different specialties:
- Clinical Nutrition: Prevention, diagnosis and dietary-nutritional treatment of acute or chronic diseases (cardiovascular, digestive, renal, endocrine diseases, etc.).
- Pediatric Nutrition: Covers specific dietary and nutritional needs from pregnancy to adolescence (pregnancy and breastfeeding, complementary feeding, allergies and intolerances, etc.)
- Sports Nutrition: Dietary-nutritional intervention adapted to your sports discipline: objectives, training, body composition, etc.
Research: Able to integrate into a multidisciplinary research and development team that contributes to progress and knowledge.
Teaching: Trainer in public and private educational centers where knowledge about food, nutrition and health is taught.
Public health: Participates in the prevention and promotion of health of the general population, promoting and participating in education programs and food policies, within the framework of public health and community nutrition.
Industry: Advises and participates in the development and innovation of products and in social marketing related to food.

Training objectives

The Bachelor in Human Nutrition and Dietetics offers students the necessary knowledge and appropriate practices to acquire the skills required for the profession and to be prepared for the development of professional practice in different fields.

To this end, the main objectives of the bachelor are as follows:

Instill professional values, ethical principles and legal responsibilities specific to the profession.
Provide the necessary strategies to carry out effective communication and work on the use of information and communication technologies.
To transmit theoretical and practical knowledge of Food Sciences.
To transmit theoretical and practical knowledge of Nutrition and Health Sciences.
Transmit the fundamentals of Public Health and Community Nutrition.
Acquire management skills and legal and scientific advice.
Acquire the ability to manage quality and collective catering.
Work on and encourage the capacity for critical analysis and research.

Career Opportunities in First Person

Teaching contents

The general structure of the teaching has been developed in accordance with the guidelines on the Bachelor established in Royal Decree 822/2021, of September 28, which establishes the organization of official teachings and the requirements for the verification of official university bachelor’s that qualify for the practice of the profession of dietician-nutritionist, Order CIN/730/2009, of March 18.

The curriculum consists of 240 ECTS distributed over four academic years and is structured into eight modules. All core, compulsory and optional subjects are worth 6 credits. Only the final bachelor project defined in Module VIII has 12 credits, due to its greater content in skills and practical development.

First Course 60 ECTS

First Semester 30 ECTS

Module	Subject	Character	ECTS
1	General biology	FB	6
1	Behavioral Psychology	FB	6
1	Biochemistry I	FB	6
1	Human Cytology and Histology	FB	6
1	Food and culture	FB	6

Second Semester 30 ECTS

Module	Subject	Character	ECTS
1	Genetics and immunology	FB	6
1	Application of ICT in professional practice	FB	6
1	Biochemistry II	FB	6
1	Physiology and Human Anatomy	FB	6
1	Applied statistics and introduction to health research	FB	6

Second Course 60 ECTS

First Semester 30 ECTS

Module	Subject	Character	ECTS
2	Bromatology I	OB	6
4	Deontology and Food Legislation	OB	6
2	Food microbiology and parasitology	OB	6
2	Culinary skills	OB	6
4	Nutrition	OB	6

Second Semester 30 ECTS

Module	Subject	Character	ECTS
2	Bromatology II	OB	6
3	Food Toxicology	OB	6
3	Food analysis	OB	6
4	Pathophysiology	OB	6
4	Dietetics	OB	6

Third Course 60 ECTS

First Semester 30 ECTS

Module	Subject	Character	ECTS
3	Hygiene, Food Safety and Quality Control	OB	6
4	Diet therapy	OB	6
4	Clinical Nutrition	OB	6
2	Fundamentals of food engineering and technology	OB	6
4	Nutrition in life cycles	OB	6

Second Semester 30 ECTS

Module	Subject	Character	ECTS
8	Elective 1/ Specific English	OP	6
4	Pharmacology and Immunology applied to nutrition	OB	6
5	Health education and communication	OB	6
5	Collective restoration	OB	6
4	Nutrigenomics	OB	6

Fourth Year 60 ECTS

First Semester 30 ECTS

Module	Subject	Character	ECTS
3	Economics and management of food companies	OB	6
5	Public Health	OB	6
5	Community nutrition	OB	6
5	Documentation and scientific methodology in nutrition	OB	6
8	Elective 2	OP	6

Second Semester 30 ECTS

Module	Subject	Character	ECTS
6	Supervised internships	PE	21
7	Final Bachelor Project	TFG	9

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Learning Outcomes

In accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 822/2021, of September 28, which establishes the organization of university education and the procedure for quality assurance, the learning outcomes of the Bachelor in Human Nutrition and Dietetics are included, differentiating knowledge or content, skills or abilities and competencies.

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Companies where our students do internships

Nutrition Bachelor Facilities

University Clinic

ADEMA has a University Clinic with professional Dietitians-Nutritionists that allows students to treat real patients in practical classes.

Kitchen

Fully equipped kitchen space for practical classes with the objective of learning culinary techniques, as well as to know the portions/quantities of food to improve the design, planning and preparation of diets and menus and to provide better attention to patients or clients.