Sustainable Food and Nutrition, BA + MS (4+1 Track)

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This major is administered by the area of Nutrition in the School of Health Sciences and Wellness .

Consists of major and collateral requirements totaling 71-80 credits.

Note: Required courses marked below have Math prerequisites. Depending on your placement score, additional courses may be required.**

Required courses, 36 credits

FN 101 - Introduction to the Professions of Dietetics and Nutrition Credits: 1
FN 151 - Contemporary Nutrition Credits: 2
FN 206 - Introductory Foods Credits: 3
FN 346 - Advanced Foods Credits: 3
FN 354 - Introduction to Nutrition and Nutrient Metabolism Credits: 3
FN 357 - Ecology of Foods Credits: 3
FN 373 - Nutrition Through the Life Span Credits: 3
FN 393 - Educational Techniques and Research in Food and Nutrition Credits: 3
FN 397 - Field Work Credits: 1-8 (Take 6 cr.)
FN 438 - Food and Nutrition Capstone Credits: 2
FN 651 - Sustainable Food System Project Credits: 3
FN 656 - Advanced Community Nutrition and Food Systems Credits: 4 *

Note

* Taken during semester 6

Required collateral courses, 35-36 credits

BIOL 101 - General Biology Credits: 5
BIOL 385 - Human Physiology Credits: 4
CHEM 101 - Basic Chemistry Credits: 5 **
ECON 110 - Principles of Macroeconomics Credits: 3 **
MATH 255 - Elementary Statistical Methods Credits: 4 ** or
HSW 301 - Fundamentals of Biostatistics Credits: 3 or
PSYC 300 - Statistics for Psychologists Credits: 4 or
SOC 351 - Social Statistics Credits: 4
NRES 150 - People, Resources and the Biosphere Credits: 3
NRES 220 - Global Climate Change and Water Resources, 10th Century to Present Credits: 3 or
WATR 220 - Global Climate Change and Water Resources, 10th Century to Present Credits: 3
PSYC 110 - Introduction to Psychology Credits: 3
PHIL 321 - Food Ethics Credits: 3
SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology Credits: 3

World Language Courses, 0-8 credits

Complete a two-semester sequence of university entry-level world language courses (101, 102). The requirement may be fulfilled through equivalent coursework or other language acquisition as demonstrated through a test-out policy (including Native American languages and American Sign Language). If your native language is not English and you can document formal high school or university study of your native language, you may use ENGL 101 and ENGL 202 , or ENGL 150 as a means of fulfilling this world language requirement. Please see the Department of World Languages and Literatures for details.