Ciencias Nutrição

 

About the program/cycle of studies

The degree in Nutrition Sciences at IUCS aims to train health professionals with the latest knowledge on human nutrition, formulation of diets, prevention of pathology and health promotion, but also with a domain in terms of technology, quality and food safety. The skills acquired include fundamental training in biological, chemical, biomedical and sociological areas and their application in the area of ​​Human Nutrition, in terms of health promotion, food quality and safety, community health, restoration, food technology, management and communication. In the different areas of study, we seek to transmit the ethical principles and norms of professional practice, the most recent knowledge and methodologies in research, the critical spirit and the scientific development relevant to the Course. Thus, the objectives set out in articles 2 and 3 of the Code of Ethics of the Order of Nutritionists are fulfilled, for the exercise of professional practice.

Study cycle accredited by A3ES for 1 year (counted from Ocyober 2022; ACEF).

More information in https://a3es.pt/pt/resultados-acreditacao/ciencias-da-nutricao-20

 

 

Entry requirements

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT REGIME

Applies to all candidates who do not hold citizenship /relatives of any country that is a Member State of the European Union; or have not been legal residents in Portugal for more than two years.

Requirements:

  • Completed secondary school;
  • Document certifying that the candidate has a national exam of Biology in is education system with the minimum mark of approved in order to substitute our national access exam of Biologia e Geologia, and the respective contents, or take the exam in CESPU

STUDENTS WITH EUROPEAN NATIONALITY

Application Regimes:

General Access: Students who hold a foreign secondary diploma legally equivalent to the Portuguese secondary education. The Portuguese admission exams can be replaced by the equivalent final exams or school-leaving exams required for each degree, duly recognized DGES (Artigo 20º do Decreto-Lei n.º 296-A/98)1.

+23 years old Regime: Students aged over 23 can be admitted to higher education if they successfully completed the special entrance examination that evaluates the capacity to attend higher education courses at CESPU educational establishments, according to the law (DL 64/2006 de 21 de março, alterado pelo Decreto-Lei n.º 113/2014, de 16-07)

 Changing of Course/Institution: Is the act by which a student applies to the same or a different degree from that of the last registration, in the same or in a different institution of higher education, whether or not there was an interruption of the registration in accordance with the Portaria n.º 181-D/2015,  19 of June.

Holder of a Degree: Holders of a Bachelor, master or doctor degree obtained in national or foreign higher education institutions, as long as recognized by Decree law nº66 / 2018  (Decreto-Lei n.º 113/2014, de 16-07)

 

Official languages

English (minimum 20 students for the first year and in exceptional cases may extend to the second year)
French (minimum 20 students for the first year and in exceptional cases may extend to the second year)
Portuguese

 

Course duration

4 years - 8 semesters - 240 ECTS

 

Coordinator

Maria Inês Pádua Correia dos Santos Silva

 

Legislation

D.R. Notice no. 14684/2018, de 12 october 

 

Main scientific areas

Areas

No. Compulsory
  Credits

No. Optional
  Credits

Nutritional Sciences

111

4

Biomedical and Chemistry

68

0

Food Industry

23

0

Chemistry

16

0

Mathematical and Statistics

9

0

Physics

5

0

Social and Behavioural Sciences

4

0