Elevate your degree and tailor your education to your career goals with our new and updated Nutrition Major Concentrations. Each 9-credit hour concentration allows you to fulfill your major electives while building specialized expertise in high-growth fields.
New Specialized Concentrations
Each new concentration requires three targeted 3-credit hour courses:
- Nutrition for Women and Children
- NTRN 320 Women's Wellness: From Food and Nutrition to Reproductive Health and Aging
- NTRN 328 Child Nutrition, Development and Health
- NTRN 350 Community Nutrition
- Lifestyle and Preventive Medicine
- NTRN 300 Healthy Lifestyles as Preventive Medicine
- NTRN 310 Understanding Plant-Based Diets in Health and Disease
- NTRN 341 Food as Medicine: How What We Eat Influences How We Feel, Think, and Our Health Status
- Sports Nutrition
- NTRN 338 Dietary Supplements
- NTRN 362 Exercise Physiology and Macronutrient Metabolism
- NTRN 388 Sports & Performance Nutrition
Clinical Nutrition Concentration
Designed for pre-health students and prospective clinical practitioners, this flexible track requires selecting three courses from the following clinical options:
- NTRN 320 Women's Wellness: From Food and Nutrition to Reproductive Health and Aging
- NTRN 328 Child Nutrition, Development and Health
- NTRN 337 Nutrition Communication, Counseling and Behavior Change Strategies
- NTRN 356 Obesity – Addressing the Epidemic through Nutrition, Drugs, and Bariatric Surgery
- NTRN 365 Nutrition for the Prevention and Management of Disease: Pathophysiology
Ready to declare or adapt your track? Contact your academic advisor to incorporate a concentration into your course plan for the upcoming semester.