Maternal and Pediatric Nutrition

3 credits

Examines the influence of maternal, infant, children, and adolescents' nourishment, feeding dynamics, and eating behaviors on growth, development, and health in both individual and population-based environments. Includes nutrition assessment, critical evaluation of normative data, and evidence-based clinical and community nutritional care, family-centered care, and programs. Recommended: undergraduate coursework in human nutrition and human physiology.