Community Nutrition

3 Units

This course is an introduction to the field of public health/community nutrition with a focus on four key themes: (1) The role of nutrition in population based health, (2) the multilevel nature of key influences on dietary behavior, (3) moral and ethical considerations in public health nutrition research and practice and (4) written, oral, and multimodal skills needed to be a successful public health nutrition practitioner. Counts as a Communication Intensive course. Counts as a Moral & Ethical Reasoning course. Prereq: Nutrition major and Senior standing or Requisites Not Met permission.