Nutrition and Healthy Living
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Description
Learn how to lead and educate others on healthy lifestyles and disease prevention. Select your courses based on personal interest, complement your degree and boost your knowledge of nutrition and overall wellness.
The nutrition and healthy living concentration provides students with a greater understanding of how nutrition contributes to healthy lifestyles and disease prevention.
Students have the opportunity to mix and match classes in areas such as:
- body image and wellness
- counseling and communication in different mediums
- eating for lifelong health
- the history and cultural aspects of food
- nutrition in the community
- sports nutrition
This concentration does not meet the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) requirements, and thus does not qualify a student to apply for a Dietetic Internship.
Requirements
- Students must complete a minimum of 18 credit hours including 12 of upper division hours for this concentration.
- All courses must be completed with a grade of āCā (2.00) or higher.
Required Courses -- 9 credit hours
NTR 100 Introductory Nutrition Science OR NTR 241 Human Nutrition
NTR 345 Development of Healthy Cuisines
NTR 450 Nutrition in the Life Cycle OR HSC 355 Eating for Lifelong Health
Upper Division Electives (Select Three) -- 9 credit hours
HEP 380 Body Image and Wellness
NTR 320 History of Human Nutrition
NTR 348 Cultural Aspects of Food
NTR 350 Nutrition Counseling
NTR 351 Nutrition Communication
NTR 353 The Western Diet
NTR 448 Community Nutrition
NTR 453 Nutrition and the Media
NTR 457 Sports Nutrition
NTR 480 Integrative and Functional Nutrition
Prerequisite courses may be needed in order to complete the requirements of this concentration.
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