Community Nutrition

Catalog description

Introduces students to program planning, legislative policies, resources, and nutrition issues specific to community nutrition. Provides an understanding of creating and implementing nutrition programs for various constituencies (elderly populations, children, impoverished populations, college students, etc.). Encourages students to learn how to take risks, try new technologies, and use fresh approaches to improving the public's nutrition and health status. Discusses concepts important to those who will be active in solving community nutritional and health problems, including program delivery, nutrition education, nutrition assessment, and planning nutrition interventions.