A Division of the College of Human Ecology and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
DIVISION OF

Nutritional
Sciences

Undergraduate Dietetics Program

The instructional program in Dietetics at Cornell strives to promote integration of knowledge and theory in nutritional sciences and development of skills necessary for excellence in dietetics practice.

Our graduates are highly successful and well-prepared for evidence-based practice, leadership and graduate study.

  • Placement rates of our graduates in dietetic internships and graduate schools of 95 percent and better.
  • The passing rate of our graduates taking the Registration Examination for Dietitians for the first time is 95 percent or higher.
Minimum Academic Course Requirements

Physical and Biological Science

Inorganic Chemistry
Chem 2070-2080 (8) or 2060-2080 (8) or 2150-2160 (8)                   
Organic Chemistry
Chem 1570 (3) or Chem 3570-3580 (6) and Chem 2510 (2) or Chem 3010 (4) Microbiology
BioMi 2900 General Microbiology (3)
Biology and Physiology
BioG 1101-1103 and BioG 1102-1104 (8) or BioG 1105-1106 (8) or BioG 1109-1110 (6)
NS 3410 (3) (Spring) AND NS 3420 (2) (Spring)
Biochemistry
BioBM 3300 (4) (Fall or Spring) or BioBM 3310 (3) (Fall) or NS 3200 [4] Fall or BioBM 3330 [4] (Summer)

Behavioral Science

Psychology
HD 1150 Human Development: Infancy and Childhood (3) (Fall or Summer) or Psych 1101 Introduction to Psychology (3) (Fall)

Communication Sciences

Communication

First-year Seminars (6)

Computational Sciences

Statistics

 BTRY 3010 Statistical Methods I (4) (Fall) or AEM 2100 Introductory Statistics (4) (Fall) or PAM 2100 Introduction to Statistics [4] (F/S), ST SCI/ILRST 2100 [4] (F/S), or ILRST 2120 Statistical Reasoning (4) (F/S) or PSYCH 3500 Statistics and Research Design (4) (Fall) or MATH 1710 Statistical Theory and Application in the Real World (4) (F/S) or SOC 3010 Evaluating Statistical Evidence (3) (Spring)

Professional Sciences

Nutrition Core

NS 1150 Nutrition, Health and Society (3) (Fall)
NS 2450 Social Science Perspectives on Food and Nutrition (3) (Fall)
NS 3310 Physiological & Biochemical Bases of Human Nutrition (4) (Spring)
NS 3320 Methods in Nutritional Sciences (3) (Fall)
NS 3450 Nutritional and Physicochemical Aspects of Food (3) (Fall)

Dietetics Courses

NS 1220 Nutrition and the Life Cycle (3) (Spring)
NS 2470 Food For Contemporary Living (2) (Fall & Spring)
Food Service Management (Currently met with HA 1106)
NS 4250 Nutrition Communications (3) (Spring)
NS 4410 Nutrition and Disease (4) (Fall)
NS 4420 Implementation of Nutrition Care (3) (Fall)
NS 4500 Public Health Nutrition (3) (Spring)
NS 4880 Applied Dietetics in Food Service Management (3) (Spring)

*May be acquired before college entrance

For more information...

 

  • on the Cornell undergraduate Dietetics Program, contact:

Emily Gier
307 MVR
(607)255-2638
eg47@cornell.edu

or

Laura Paige
Program Administrative Assistant
B19 Savage Hall
(607)255-2628
ljt62@cornell.edu