NUTR 6002

Supervised Practice I. (1-9) Prerequisite: Entry into the Dietetic Internship Program or the Combined Dietetic Internship/Master's Degree Program. This course provides students with experience in clinical, community, and food service settings.

NUTR 6003

Supervised Practice II. (1-9) Prerequisite: Entry into the Dietetic Internship Program or the Combined Dietetic Internship/Master's Degree Program.
This course provides students with additional experience in clinical, community, and food service settings and an enrichment experience for dietetic interns in an area of practice selected by the student with guidance from the internship director.

NUTR 6004

Supervised Practice III. (1-6) Prerequisite: Entry into the Combined Dietetic Internship/Master's Degree Program.
This course provides students with additional experience in clinical, community, and food service settings and an enrichment experience in an area of practice selected by the student with guidance from the internship director.

NUTR 6101

Nutrition Research Methods(3).  Prerequisite: HHS 6000 or consent of the instructor.
This course provides students with an understanding of research designs/methodologies and statistical procedures commonly used in nutrition research.. Students have hands-on experience in critiquing literature, developing an IRB consent form, acquiring reference manager skills, and improving biomedical research writing skills.

NUTR 6102

Nutrition Intervention. (3) Prerequisite: HHS 6000 or consent of the instructor.
This course enables students to critically examine multiple nutrition intervention strategies used primarily in community settings. Emphasis is placed on systematic analysis of nutrition-related health problems and interventions designed to address them. Students design a future-oriented nutrition intervention for a selected target group.

NUTR 6104

Advanced Normal Nutrition. (3) Prerequisite: None for students accepted into the Health Sciences degree program with a specialization in Nutrition. Others must seek consent of the instructor and show evidence of having completed courses in biochemistry, anatomy and physiology, and nutrition and metabolism. Students are expected to have a basic knowledge of the various metabolic pathways and the course builds on this information.
This course focuses on the metabolism of macronutrients, including the regulatory role of vitamins and minerals, from the standpoint of individual systems, namely the gastrointestinal tract, liver, muscle, adipose tissue, kidney, and red blood cells. Current research and integrative functioning of macro and micronutrients in the various systems are discussed.

NUTR 6105

Nutrition, Culture, and the Life Cycle. (3) Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.
Nutrition assessment, physical growth and development of various life cycle stages are examined. The course also includes the influence of culture, ethnicity, and religion on food selection, dietary intake, and nutrition and health status.

NUTR 6200

Nutrition Policy and Program Planning. (3) Prerequisite: None for students accepted into the Health Sciences degree program with a specialization in Nutrition. Others must seek consent of the instructor.
This course focuses on the policy making process at the federal and state levels and the process of program planning and evaluation, as related to food and nutrition programs. Group projects and independent assignments are included to help students develop a conceptual framework for developing, implementing, and evaluating nutrition policies and programs.

NUTR 6201

Food Safety. (3) Prerequisite: None for students accepted into the Health Sciences degree program with a specialization in Nutrition. Others must seek consent of the instructor.
Food safety theory is examined through definition of the terms "safe,""toxic," and "hazardous" and through an overview of the regulatory agencies in the United States that oversee the safety of the food system. Current problems in the areas of food microbiology, chemical contaminants, food additives, and naturally occurring toxicants are examined.

NUTR 6970

Nutrition and the Media. (3) Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.
This course is designed to provide students a hands-on experience with various media formats. Students write press releases, plan and practice radio and TV interviews, and write short nutrition feature stories for print.

NUTR 6990

Entrepreneurial Nutrition. (3) Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.
Students learn successful techniques of entrepreneurship in dietetics. Business plans are formulated for development of private practice in dietetics.

NUTR 7101

Nutrition Issues. (3) Prerequisite: HHS 6000, Nutr 4200, and Nutr 4250 or course equivalents.
This course includes advanced level study of evidence-based practice guidelines and strength of evidence for medical nutrition therapy of diseases prevalent in vulnerable populations. Nutrition and laboratory assessment parameters and food safety issues specific to individual diseases are examined, as well as the role of complementary and alternative medicine in medical nutrition therapy of individual diseases.

NUTR 7102

Nutrition Education Principles. (3) Prerequisite: Nutr 6104 or consent of the instructor.
Methods and media are emphasized to assist the student in the development of oral and written skills in the communication of nutrition principles for individual, group, and mass education. Nutrition education materials are designed, developed, and evaluated for the promotion of dietary behavior alteration.

NUTR 7103

Advanced Food Investigations and Clinical Problems. (3) Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor, by written application.
Note: Course must be taken in 2 sequential terms for a total of 6 hours. Development of food products to meet specialized clinical needs.

NUTR 7104

Reproductive and Developmental Nutrition. (3) Prerequisite: Nutr 6104 or consent of the instructor. The role of nutrition is examined in adolescent and adult pregnancy, lactation, infancy, and childhood. Nutrition aspects of family planning, complications of pregnancy, management of low birth weight infants, and special feeding problems and practices of infancy and childhood are included.

NUTR 7105

Geriatric Nutrition. (3) Prerequisite: Nutr 6104 or consent of the instructor.
With a background that establishes demographic and physiological aspects of the aging process, this course focuses on nutrient intake, nutrient requirements, and nutrition-related disorders and their management in the elderly.

NUTR 7106

Advanced Sports Nutrition. (3) Prerequisite: Nutr 6104 or consent of the instructor.
This course focuses on the relationships between nutrition, strength, endurance and physical performance with an emphasis on nutrient utilization during exercise. Practical considerations for the nutrition assessment of athletes are discussed.

NUTR 7107

Advanced Clinical Nutrition. (3) Prerequisite: NUTR 6104.
Various disease states requiring dietary modifications are examined with special emphasis on the metabolic basis for these modifications. A large segment of the course is devoted to review of journal articles dealing with the most recent information on the significance and management of selected disease states.

NUTR 7108

Nutrition Assessment. (3) Prerequisite: Nutr 6104 or consent of the instructor.
This course covers the indirect and direct methods used in the assessment of nutrition status. Both traditional and new methods of assessment are discussed, including anthropometric techniques, nutrition history screens, soft tissue assessment, biochemical assessment, dietary survey techniques, and demographic assessment.

NUTR 7800

Practicum. (3) Prerequisites: HHS 6000, HHS 7000, HHS 8000, Nutr 6104 and consent of the instructor.
This course provides opportunities for students to have experience in a practice setting. Choice of setting depends on student's area of specialization.

NUTR 7900

Special Problems in Nutrition and Dietetics. (1-12). Prerequisite: Nutr 6104 and consent of the instructor.
Individual study of a selected topic under the direction of a faculty member.

NUTR 7980

Research Practicum. (1-12). This course is for graduate assistants and includes directed research in collaboration with a faculty member. This course does not count towards degree requirements.

NUTR 7995

Master's Project. (3) Prerequisites: HHS 6000, 7000, Nutr 6101, 6102, 6104 and consent of graduate committee chair.
Note: A minimum of six semester hours must be taken. This course includes individual study of a selected topic or issue, under the direction of an approved graduate committee, resulting in a written paper judged as suitable for submission to a professional journal.

NUTR 7999

Thesis Research. (3) Prerequisites: HHS 6000, 7000, Nutr 6101, 6102, 6104 and consent of thesis committee chair.
Note: A minimum of six semester hours must be taken. This course includes individual study of a selected investigation in nutrition or food science under the direction of an approved thesis chair and thesis committee.