Nutrition Communication, Counseling and Behavior Change Strategies

3 Units

How do we help someone make a dietary behavior change, such as choosing a side salad instead of fries when eating a hamburger? Yes, it is a very challenging task and most often, providing just nutrition education is not sufficient. Therefore, the focus of this course is to prepare students for their future career by providing fundamental knowledge about human decision making and developing communication skills that can help improve others nutritional well-being. In addition, the course will critically evaluate and interpret nutrition information for the consumer. Changes in food marketing and sources of nutrition information for consumers over the past five decades will be analyzed and discussed. Furthermore, the impact of nutrition labeling, the food industry and food marketing on the dietary intake of Americans and various demographic groups in the U.S. will be studied. Offered as NTRN 337 and NTRN 437 Counts as a Human Diversity & Commonality course. Prereq: NTRN 201 or Requisites Not Met permission.