Master's Degree in Food and Human Nutrition

Academic year 2023-24

See the pre-registration, admission and registration deadlines for the 2023-24 academic year for this master's programme.
You can also consult this information for the academic year 2022-23.

To be awarded the degree, 60 ECTS credits must be passed as follows:

24 ECTS from mandatory subjects.

12 ECTS from elective subjects, which must be taken on one of the stated pathways.

12 ECTS from External Placements.

12 ECTS from the Master's Thesis.

Supplementary Training

The following subjects may be taken as supplementary training by students with non-Life Science or Health Science undergraduate degrees:

  • 11716 Physiology of Digestion
  • 11717 Macronutrients and Micronutrients. Energy from Nutrition
  • 11718 Bioavailability of Micronutrients
  • 11719 Metabolic Interrelationships of Nutrients: Inter-organ Cycles
  • 11720 Nutritional Quality and Value of Food
  • 11721 Health Education
  • 11722 Lifestyles and Health
  • 11723 Advances in Food and Nutrition

Observations

This Master's programme is jointly taught with the University of Granada. The following subjects are taught at the UGR:

  • 11685 Methods Used in Assessing Nutritional Status
  • 11686 Advanced Analytical Techniques in Nutritional Experimentation
  • 11687 Introduction to Experimental Nutrition
  • 11692 Modulation of Gene Expression Mediated by Nutrients
  • 11699 Endocrine and Toxic Disruptors in the Human Diet
  • 11700 Nutrition and the Digestive System: Digestive Secretions
  • 11701 Nutrition and the Digestive System: Absorption
  • 11707 Study of Minerals in the Diet with an Antioxidant Effect
  • 11718 Bioavailability of Micronutrients
  • 11723 Advances in Food and Nutrition

 Clinical Nutrition
  • Mallorca

Clinical Nutrition
Name Credits Period
11697 - Oxidative stress and ageing 6,0 Yearlong
11698 - Molecular and nutritional basics of cancer 6,0 Yearlong
11702 - Nutrition, Factors of Cardiovascular Risk and Metabolic Syndrome 6,0 Yearlong
11704 - Enteral, Parenteral and Artificial Nutrition 6,0 Yearlong
11705 - Potential Anti-carcinogens and Health 6,0 Yearlong
11706 - Food-Medicine Interaction 6,0 Yearlong
11692 - Modulation of gene expression mediated by nutrients (UGR) 6,0
11699 - Endocrine and Toxic Disruptors in the Human Diet (UGR) 6,0
11700 - Nutrition and the Digestive System: Digestive Secretions (UGR) 6,0
11701 - Nutrition and the Digestive System: Absorption (UGR) 6,0
11703 - Nutrition and Processes of Pathological Calcification 6,0
11707 - Study of Minerals in Diet with an Anti-oxidant Effect (UGR) 6,0

 Food Applied to Tourism
  • Mallorca

Food Applied to Tourism
Name Credits Period
11710 - Nutrition and Food in Special Groups 6,0 Yearlong
11713 - Food Allergies, Infections, Contaminants and Poisonings 6,0 Yearlong
11708 - Group Catering: Principles and Applications for the Tourist Industry 6,0
11709 - Set Menus, Á la Carte Menus and buffets 6,0
11711 - Traditional Food in the Mediterranean: the Balearic Islands, Andalusia and 6,0
11712 - Quality Control in Food Preparation Centres 6,0
11714 - Basic Regulations for Preventing Occupational Hazards and for Safety at Wor 6,0
11715 - Food and Selective Restaurant Inspections 6,0

 Nutrition and Food Quality
  • Mallorca

Nutrition and Food Quality
Name Credits Period
11716 - Physiology of Digestion 6,0 Yearlong
11720 - Nutritional Quality and Value of Food 6,0 Yearlong
11721 - Health Education 6,0 Yearlong
11722 - Lifestyles and Health 6,0 Yearlong
11680 - Nutrition in the age of the great ancient and medieval civilisations 6,0 Yearlong
11681 - The Flow of People and Food across Continents: the Globalisation of Food 6,0 Yearlong
11682 - Nutritional behaviour 6,0 Yearlong
11683 - Investigation Methodology 6,0 Yearlong
11693 - Mediterranean diet and health 6,0 Yearlong
11694 - Nutritional Education and Food Guides 6,0 Yearlong
11695 - Complimentary diet and its design 6,0 Yearlong
11696 - Diet and Sport 6,0 Yearlong
11717 - Macronutrients and Micronutrients Energetics of Nutrition 6,0
11718 - Bio-availability of Micronutrients (UGR) 6,0
11719 - Metabolic Interrelationships of Nutrients Inter-organic Cycles 6,0
11723 - Advances in Diet and Nutrition 6,0
11684 - Epidemiology of nutrition 6,0
11685 - Methods Used in Assessing Nutritional State 6,0
11686 - Analítiques Techniques Methods in Nutritional Experimentation 6,0
11687 - Introduction to Experimental Nutrition 6,0