The nutrition and health science focus in this diploma prepares graduates to handle issues that contribute to health and wellness by promoting and enhancing better quality lifestyle through sound nutrition, active physical, mental and social living to reduce disease risk.
As such, it aims to produce graduates equipped with a solid foundation in nutrition, health and wellness principles, qualified to assume responsible positions in the nutrition, health and fitness industry that will promote health and general well-being to the population. The job profiles for the graduates are as follows:
- Nutrition, Health & Wellness Technologists
- Assistant nutritionists
- Sales executives for the health supplement industry
- Wellness coordinators/organisers
- Patient health educators
- Marketing executives for health, nutrition and fitness industries
- Health and lifestyle promotion executives
- Public health coordinators
This is the only full-time diploma offered by polytechnics that integrates health and wellness with a science-based curriculum. Graduates from this course will play a significant role in the government's call for its citizens to adopt a healthy and better quality lifestyle. In the long run, the course will benefit the population of all ages as the best way to overcome the escalating healthcare costs is to live a healthy lifestyle that starts from young by adopting eating right and exercising as a life philosophy.
