Courses

All courses carry 3 credits unless otherwise specified.

572 Community Nutrition
Skills and techniques needed to effectively carry out community nutrition programs and nutrition education, including knowledge of agencies and programs, community assessment, legislation, nutrition education, and working with people. Prerequisite: NUTRITN 352 or consent of instructor.

573 Community Nutrition Fieldwork
Supervised fieldwork experience in community nutrition programs. Prerequisites: NUTRITN 572 and consent of instructor. Credit, 3-6. 

577 Nutritional Problems in the U.S.
Reflect and integrate Nutrition, GenEd, and other courses with life experiences.  Students develop insight into the epidemiologic, physiologic, biochemical and nutritional complexities of major diet-related disease in the Unived States.  Satisfies the Intergrated Experience requirement for BS- Nutrition Majors. Prerequisite: NUTRITN 352.

578 Nutritional Problems of Developing Nations
Malnutrition as it exists in developing countries and its socioeconomic background. Protein-energy malnutrition, famine, vitamin and mineral deficiency diseases, synergism between nutrition and infection, and the role of international agencies in fighting malnutrition. Prerequisite: NUTRITN 352 or consent of instructor.

580 Medical Nutrition Therapy
Physiological and metabolic bases for nutritional care and the application of this knowledge to the treatment of specific diseases. Topics include surgery, burns, infections, cancer, liver diseases, renal failure, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and alternative modes of feeding. Also includes application of nutrition knowledge to specific diseases and problems encountered in the practice of clinical dietetics. Credit, 4.

585 Practical Skills in Nutrition Counseling
Knowledge of dietgary treatment of disease (Medical Nutrition THerapy) appliced in stimulated one-on-one counseling settings.  Topics include: interviewing/listening skills, assessing readiness, developing care plans, multicultural counseling, and computerized diet analysis.  Prerequisites: NUTRITN 580; may be taken concurrently.

597G ST-Nutrition and Food Policy
This course examines U.S. and International policies related to food and nutrition.  Students will gain familiarity with domestic and international policy making processes related to global nutrition converns.  Nutrition problems can be directly or indirectly addressed through a variety of policy and program options. These options will be examined in-depth.

597J ST- Nutritional Genomics
With the rapid development of various data high-throughout technologies, functional genomics is becoming to be a readily available tool to conduct research in almost every aspect of life sciences.  Particularly, it is well suited for nutrition and health, since nutrition influences multiple levels from genomics/epigenomics to transcriptomics and proteomics.  Dietary components aso interact with each other to form a system with integrated biological function.  This course, which consists of three modules (Nutritional Genomics, Nutritional Epigenomics, and Nutritional Metagenomics), will offer a state of science approach to unravel the effects of nutrition on health.  In the Nutritional Genomics module, students will learn how nutrients and genes interact, and therefore influence the process of diseases via genetic mechanism.  The Nutritional Epigenomics module will provide the most recent knowledge regarding epigenetic phenomenon, a mechanism that alters gene expression without genetic changes, and will also disucss how nutrients affect epigenetic phenomena, and thereby affect physiologic and pathologic processes by modifying epigenetic phenomena.  The Nutritional Metagenomics will provide an introduction of microbiome and the analysis of microbial-community genome-sequence data recovered directly from the gut microbiota or the environment.

597K ST-Culture, Nutrition and Health
How culture and ethnicity affect dietary practices and health in the U.S.  Influence of food security, acculturation, and politics on food availability, food practices, and health outcomes.  Health and health disparities in different cultural/ethnic groups, including overview of epigenetics.  Emphasis on cross-cultural communication to address health and nutrition concerns.

597R ST-Nutrition and Reproductive Health
This course will explore the relationship between diet and reproductive health throughout the lifecycle.  Topics will include: menarche; premenstrual sydnrome; pregnancy-related issues, including polycystic ovarian syndrome, infertility, miscarriage and birth outcomes; reproductive cancers, inclduing breast, endometrial and prostate cancers; and menopause.  Lectures, discussion and short student presentations will rely heavily on recent research articles.

597S ST-Nutrition and Cancer Prevention
This course is keyed towards senior undergraduates and graduate students who are interesed in exploring the extent to which nutrition, food and physical activity modify the risk of cancer, one of the most pressing challenges facing the public health worldwide.  Topics will include: international variations and trends of cancer; introduction of basic concepts and principles of the cancer process; evidence for diet, physical activity (including body fatness) and cancer prevention; dietary and lifestyle recommendations for cancer prevention.  The goal of this course is for students to understand how to develp dietary and lifestyle strategies for cancer prevention based on available evidence and current research.

630 Nutrition and Chronic Diseases
Metabolic roles of dietary components in the etiology and pathophysiology of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, protein-energy malnutrition, anemia, and cancer. Metabolism of nutrients associated with each disease and the influence of overall dietary composition. Prerequisites: general biochemistry and/or nutritional biochemistry.

640 Public Health Nutrition
A practice-based approach to public health nutrition processes through readings, lectures, and active participation. Assessing community needs; priorities, goals and objectives; implementing an intervention; designing a nutrition plan; building coalitions; and preparing grant applications. Prerequisites: NUTRITN 572 and 577 or consent of instructor.

678 Topics in International Nutrition
Causes and consequences of malnutrition in developing countries from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. Some knowledge of agriculture nutrition and/or health sciences required. Student presentations and discussion of current issues pertaining to nutrition and development. Prerequisite: NUTRITN 578 or consent of instructor.

696 Research Problem
Mainly for candidates for the Master of Science degree who do not write a thesis. Original research expected. Two bound copies of a written report of the study required by the department. Credit, 3-6.

697C Journal Club
Review and discussion of current literature. Credit, 1.

698 Nutrition Practicum
Practical field experience in human nutrition. Prerequisite: NUTRITN 352 or consent of instructor.

699 Master’s Thesis
Individual research. Credit, 1-6.

714 Vitamins and Minerals
Metabolic role of vitamins, specific functions, requirements, sources, assay methods, effects of deficiencies and excesses. Prerequisite: NUTRITN 713 or consent of instructor.

715 Advanced Vitamins and Minerals
Metabolic role of minerals, specific functions, requirements, sources, assay methods, effects of deficiencies and excesses. Prerequisite: NUTRITN 713 or consent of instructor.

731 Nutritional Assessment
Procedures used in assessing human nutriture, including demographic, clinical, anthropometric, biochemical, and dietary intake methodologies. Standards of evaluation and validity of procedures used in national surveys and other pertinent studies.

741 Methods in Nutrition Research
Introduction to the design and implementation of qualitative and quantitative nutrition research projects and writing grant proposals.

793 Seminar
Readings, reports and discussions on current literature in area of food or nutrition. Credit, 1.

794 Seminar
Review of current literature and research. Visiting lecturers. One class hour. Credit, 1.

796 Research Project
Research on problems not related to thesis. Credit, 1-4.

896 Research Project
Consent of graduate instructor required. Not a thesis; for Ph.D. candidates only. Credit, 1-4.

899 Doctoral Dissertation
Credit, 18.