NS 450
Public Health Nutrition
Spring. 3 credits. Prerequisites: NS 115 and one course dealing with population-level studies (e.g., NS 245, HD 250, PAM 303, D SOC 101/200). Students must enroll in policy lab sec during course enrollment period. K. Rasmussen and D. Pelletier.
Public health nutrition is the major professional career track for nutritionists outside of dietetics. It deals with efforts to improve the diets and nutritional status of whole populations by working at the community, state, and national levels. Course helps prepare students to work in public health nutrition by describing methods used in the assessment of nutrition problems, the development of nutrition-related policies, and the delivery of health, nutrition, and food assistance programs.