Nutrition Education K-12

Catalog description

This 3-credit course provides an understanding of the optimal nutritional needs and nutrition education principles for students in kindergarten through grade 12. Topics include evidence based principles of healthy eating for children and adolescents, examination of food choices and barriers to healthy food, with an emphasis on behaviorally focused nutrition education relating to critical school nutrition issues. Course work completed in school settings requires that students provide documentation of active field clearances.