• Mode: research and professional
• Duration (in credits): between 60 and 120
• Qualification awarded: Master's Degree in Nutrition and Metabolism
• Places available: 20
• Cost per credit
• Admission to doctoral programmes
• Contact

• Participating institutions
• Presentation
• Admission requirements
• Contents
• Modes
• Pre-registration

Participating institutions

- Rovira i Virgili University (coordinator)
- University of Barcelona
- University of the Balearic Islands

Compulsory student mobility: it depends on the mode

Presentation

The aim of this master's degree is to train students to understand the effect that nutrients have on the organism and provide them with knowledge about people's health. The quality of the programme is guaranteed because the teaching staff contains a number of experts in this field. The master's degree focuses on research into basic and applied nutrition, nutrigenomics, nutrigenetics and specialized nutrition.

Admission requirements

The Master's Degree courses are open to anybody with an official university qualification, even Spanish or foreign (this foreign degree must enable you to be admitted to postgraduate studies in the country where you obtained it).

In addition, universities in charge of the organization of a Master can establish those procedures and requirements considered necessary to be finally admitted to the Master. Therefore, as well as having a previous official degree, you should get informed about additional conditions and selection criteria which may have been addittionally established by each Master.

Contents

Course taught in: Catalan and Spanish

Reinforcement section for diplomates
- Regulation of the Metabolism
- Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering
- Biosynthesis of Macromolecules
- Fundamentals of Immunology

Common subjects
- Food
- Statistics Applied to Nutrition
- Sources of Knowledge and Funding
- Assimilation and Metabolism of Macronutrients
- Assimilation and Metabolism of Micronutrients
- Molecular Nutrition
- Nutrition in Different Physiological Stages
- Energy Homeostasis

Specific block: experimental profile (37 obligatory ECTS credits among which is a supervised research assignment)

- Computer Processing of Data in Nutritional Studies
- Research assignment (30 ECTS credits)
- One subject to be chosen from the block of optional subjects within the research tool group

Specific block: professional profile in Nutrigenomics and Functional Food (30 obligatory ECTS credits among which is supervised work experience in a company)
- Nutrition and Pathologies
- Technological Aspects of Food Components
- Nutrigenomics and Personalised Nutrition
- Functional Food
- Work experience in companies in the sector (15 ECTS credits)

Specific block: professional profile in Clinical Nutrition (40 obligatory ECTS credits among which is supervised work experience in a clinical environment)
- Nutrients and Physiopathology
- Nutrition and Cardiovascular Risk
- Nutrition and Obesity
- Nutrition and Cancer
- Nutrition in Endocrine Pathologies
- Psychological Aspects of Eating Behaviour
- Nutritional Support in Special Situations
- Clinical work experience (15 ECTS)

Modes

- Professional (Nutrigenomics and Functional Food)
- Professional (Clinical Nutrition)
- Research

Official Master's degrees offer specific Modes which will be effectively initiated -or not- depending on the number of students finally admitted.

Pre-registration

The preregistration period (1st phase) will begin on 1st March and end on 30th April.

If all the places available are not taken within this period, a new preregistration period will be opened (2nd phase) between 1st and 30th June.

The preregistration must be carried out on the Internet. The online form will become operative on the first day of the preregistration period. preregistration application.

For academic questions, please get in touch with the coordinator of the Masters. For administrative information, contact the secretariat of the faculty/school that teaches the Master's Degree; if you have been offered a place in the program on the strength of a foreign qualification, the Postgraduate and Doctoral School will inform you of the documents you will need.

Pre-registration on-line

Academic contact (coordinator)
Drs. Anna Ardèvol Grau  Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology (Faculty of Chemistry)  977 559 566  anna.ardevol(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Administrative contact (secretary)
Secretariat of the Faculty of Chemistry  977 559 516  pilar.garcia(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Postgraduate and Doctoral School
Edifici del Rectorat - Escala C, 1st floor - c/ Escorxador, s/n (Tarragona)   Tel: 977 558 478. Fax: 977 558 847   mastersoficials(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat  Office hours  Mornings: Mondays to Fridays from 8.30 to 14.30 Afternoons: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 15.30 to 18.00  July and August: Mondays to Fridays from 8.00 to 15.00

Further information

• Schedule for procedures involving students
• Admision regulations
• Programme
• Educational Guide
• Faculty/school for registration
• Administrative procedure
• Pre-registration on-line
• Documentation required for preregistration 
• Requirements for foreign documents
• Frequently-asked questions
• Payment of fees from abroad