Children's Food and Eating: Biological and Social Perspectives

Education facts

Code: 2HK071

The course provides an opportunity to deepen your knowledge about food and eating from childhood through adolescence. The different points of contact for children in relation to food, including home, preschool and school, will be addressed. Current themes on children's eating, such as obesity, will also be tackled based on research perspectives from social and natural sciences. **Outline for distance course:** Teaching may include recorded lectures, seminars, online meetings and online discussion forums. The examination forms can consist of take-home exams, written assignments and oral examinations online.

Entry requirements

A Bachelor of Science in Dietetics or a profession status qualification as a dietician, or a Bachelor's degree within public health and caring sciences or with Food Studies, Nutrition and Dietetics as the main field of study, or at least 180 credits within the Primary School Teacher Education Programme including 60 credits in home and consumer studies

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Children's Food and Eating: Biological and Social Perspectives

  Uppsala University

  Flexible

  Start date: 18 January 2027

  End date: 24 March 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %