Nutritional Sciences, The University of Arizona

Nutritional science is the study of nutrition and foods -- in health and disease, humans and animals. Courses cover nutrition education, dietetics, nutritional evaluation, and nutritional biochemistry. Nutritional science combines medicine, food chemistry, cell biology and biochemistry with a focus on nutrition and foods. Students may specialize in either dietetics or nutrition. The dietetics option leads to application for internship credentials from the American Dietetic Association. The nutrition option prepares students for graduate study in clinical nutrition, food science, nutritional biochemistry, dentistry, nursing, physical therapy, or veterinary medicine.

High School Preparation:

Entrance Requirements
moderate to substantial knowledge of math and the biological sciences

Major Requirements:

major requires math beyond general education requirements, but not beyond basic calculus; includes statistics, trigonometry, finite math, calculus or some combination of these courses.

major requires basic lab sciences beyond general education requirements, and some upper-division sciences

Careers:

registered dietitian-clinical, public health, consulting, and wellness
positions in the food industry, regulatory and consumer agencies, health-care delivery systems, and public health
graduate and professional study

Sample Courses:

all options require algebra and statistics
dietetics option: diet therapy for disease management, nutrition education, physiology, biochemistry, food service organization and management, nutritional assessment and therapeutic nutrition
nutrition option: human nutrition, physiology and biochemistry of nutrients, molecular biology and analytical chemistry

Nutritional Sciences

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