Choosing NS Courses
When selecting NS courses, consider your personal interests and your professional goals. Focusing your selections around a specific issue can result in a more concentrated experience and greater depth of understanding of that particular issue. The clusters of NS courses below may help you begin to plan your selections:
Economic Influences on Human Nutrition
- NS 206 Introduction to Global Health
- NS 306 Nutritional Problems of Developing Nations
- NS 445 Food Policy for Developing Nations
- NS 457 Health, Poverty, and Inequality: A Global Perspective
Epidemiology and Public Health
Food Quality
- NS 247 Food for Contemporary Living
- NS 345 Introduction to Physicochemical and Biological Aspects of Foods
- NS 488 Applied Dietetics in Food Service Systems
- NS 115 Nutrition, Health, and Society
- NS 122 Nutrition and the Life Cycle
- NS 222 Maternal and Child Nutrition
- NS 275 Human Biology and Evolution
- NS 315 Obesity and the Regulation of Body Weight (also Psychology 613)
- NS 341 Human Anatomy and Psychology
- NS 441 Nutrition and Disease
- NS 421 Nutrition and Exercise
- NS 442 Implementation of Nutrition Care
Nutritional Biochemistry
- NS 320 Introduction to Human Biochemistry
- NS 331 Physiological and Biochemical Bases of Human Nutrition
- NS 332 Methods in Nutritional Sciences
- NS 431 Mineral Nutrition and Chronic Disease
- NS 475 Mechanisms Underlying Mammalian Developmental Defects (also BIOAP 475)
- NS 490 Manipulating the Mouse Genome (also BioGD 490)
Psychological and Social Influences on Human Nutrition
- NS 245 Social Science Perspectives on Food and Nutrition
- NS 347 Human Growth and Development: Biological and Behavioral Interactions (also Human Development 347 and Biology and Society 347)
- NS 361 Biology of Normal and Abnormal Behavior
- NS 425 Nutrition Communications and Counseling