Details for GEO301 Food and Health

Discover Geography’s essence through Food and Health at Alphacrucis College. Building on population and development insights, delve into dietary and epidemiological shifts amid economic progress. Explore global nutrition and disease patterns, analyzing disease and agricultural innovation diffusion. Foster critical thinking, problem-solving, and reflection, navigating human-environment interactions to unravel the mysteries of knowledge acquisition.

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: GEO301
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Assess the relative adequacy of various health indicators as means of providing a comprehensive overview of global patterns and trends in nutrition and disease amelioration.
2. Apply the data from multiple variables to construct an integrated overview of the broad world pattern of vulnerability to disease and malnutrition.
3. Explain the health and/or nutrition problems that arise from the causes identified from image studies, including the sequence of processes leading from the causes to the problems.
4. Describe the world distribution and the intensity of a range of health and nutrition challenges, formulate and recommend realistic solutions.
5. Apply relevant statistics to evaluate the health and nutrition of the population living in the student’s town/suburb/city.
6. Compare and contrast the health and nutrition of the population living in the student’s town/suburb/city with (a) national levels of health and nutrition, and (b) global levels of health and nutrition.
7. Synthesise and apply the understandings gained throughout course to explain why health and nutrition standards in the student’s town/suburb/city deviate from national and global levels, noting also the policy implications of this in the context of Christian ethics and social justice.

Subject Content

• Global patterns in food and nutrition indicators
• Global patterns in health indicators
• Sustainability and food production
• Diffusion
• Measures to improve health and nutrition
• Famine
• Solutions to food insecurity
• Prevention and treatment of disease

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Face to Face (onsite)
• Distance/E-learning (online)

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

• Data review and reflection (20%)
• Minor Essay (30%)
• Major Project (50%) 

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