Jun 16, 2024  
2023-24 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2023-24 Undergraduate Bulletin

Course Offerings


  

 

Nutrition

  
  • NUTR 1133 - Food, Nutrition, Dietetics as a Profession


    Credit(s): 1

    An overview of the food and nutrition field of study focusing on the professional opportunities in foods, nutrition and dietetics
  
  • NUTR 1138 - Diet and Fitness


    Credit(s): 1

    Overview of concepts related to food, nutrition and health.
  
  • NUTR 2339 - Introductory to Nutrition


    Credit(s): 3

    Study of nutrition and food as applied to daily living. Basic nutrition and wellness concepts in relation to the individual.
  
  • NUTR 3339 - Introduction to Integrative and Functional Nutrition


    Credit(s): 3

    Study of the nutritive needs of the body with emphasis on function of the nutrients in the body, food sources and requirements for people of different ages and activities. In this course, the conventional, integrative and functional approaches to nutritional needs and interventions will be reviewed.
    Repeated: Yes Prerequisite Course(s): NUTR 2339
  
  • NUTR 3349 - Nutrition Throughout the Lifecycle


    Credit(s): 3

    This lecture course presents nutritional needs during the lifecycle. The relationship between nutrition and mental and physical developmentand function are studied.
    Prerequisite Course(s): NUTR 2339
  
  • NUTR 3349 DEL - Nutrition Throughout the Lifecycle


    Credit(s): 3

    Nutritional needs during the life cycle; relation between nutrition and mental and physical development and function.
  
  • NUTR 3355 - Nutrition for Health Care


    Credit(s): 3

    A study of normal nutrition and diet therapy for health care providers. (Non-majors)
  
  • NUTR 4303 - Cultural Aspects of Food


    Credit(s): 3

    Origin of cultural food habits, social and psychological aspects of food acceptances, and cultural influences in food selection and preparation.
  
  • NUTR 4309 - Community Nutrition


    Credit(s): 3

    Overview of techniques and procedures for collecting, recording, analyzing and interpreting data for nutritional assessment; program development and presentation techniques for application to individuals and community groups.
    Prerequisite Course(s): NUTR 2339
  
  • NUTR 4329 - Nutrition for Sports


    Credit(s): 3

    Topics studied in this course include nutritional concerns for individuals and team sport participants at various ages, including optimum diet selection for maximum performance; nutrient impact on performance; body composition; energy balance; unique needs of specific sports participants; and food and nutritional quackery in sports and athletics are studied.
    Prerequisite Course(s): NUTR 2339
  
  • NUTR 4335 - Nutrition Counseling


    Credit(s): 3

    This course addresses nutrition counseling and interventions in the nutrition care process; communication skills and application for prevention and treatment of nutrition-related disease states.
    Prerequisite Course(s): NUTR 2339
  
  • NUTR 4339 - Advanced Human Nutrition


    Credit(s): 3

    Metabolic processes whichinvolve essential dietary components;methods of evaluating nutritional status.
    Prerequisite Course(s): NUTR 3339
  
  • NUTR 4349 - Medical Nutrition Therapy I


    Credit(s): 3

    Study of the physiological basis and application of medical nutrition therapy using the nutrition care process to nutrition support, metabolic stress, disorders of energy imbalance, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and a variety of gastrointestinal disorders encountered in the clinical setting.
    Prerequisite Course(s): NUTR 3339, BIOL 3440, BIOL 2301, BIOL 2402
  
  • NUTR 4379 - Medical Nutrition Therapy II


    Credit(s): 3

    Study of the physiological basis and application of medical nutrition therapy using the nutrition care process to diabetes, renal disease, liver disease, cancer and HIV as encountered in the clinical setting.
    Prerequisite Course(s): NUTR 4349