Supporting Courses
Supporting Courses and Related Areas allow flexibility to meet your career goals. Key points remember about supporting courses:
- Almost any course, with adviser approval, may be used as a supporting course.
- Any NUTR course that is not required is a supporting course.
- Listed below are recommended supporting courses related to interest areas. Each course will appear on a degree audit as a supporting course without a special request being made.
Interest areas include:
- Biological Sciences
- Business Management
- Communications
- Community Nutrition / Public Health
- Counseling and Clinical Dietetics
- Food Industry
- Gerontology
- Immunology
- International Nutrition
- Nutrition Education
- Marketing and Sales
- Pre-medicine, dentistry, other allied health fields
- Research skills
- Sports and Wellness
For Applied Sciences Option - Additional biology, chemistry, biochemistry and math:
- BIOL 110, 230W
- CHEM 111, 112, 113, 203, 213, 212
- BMB 212
- MATH 140
For Basic Sciences Option students who want to fulfill the American
Dietetic Association (ADA) Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) need
to take 29 credits from the list below plus common requirements for
the major:
- AG BM 101 GS, ECON 002 GS, 004 GS or 014 GS (3)
- HD FS 129 GS or PSY 002 GS (3)
- H P A 332 or MGMT 100 (3)
- H P A 460, HRIM 365, MGMT 321 or PSY 231 (3)
- HRIM 329 (3) and 330 (2)
- NUTR 120 (3), 360 (3), 370 (1), 400 (1), 453 (3) and 456 (2)
Biological Sciences
- BMB 221 (Applied Biochem) 251 (Mol/Cell Biol I), 252 (Mol/Cell Biol II), 401 (Gen Biochem), 402 (Gen Biochem);
- BIOL 222 (Genetics), 240W (Biol: Function & Development of Organisms), 409 (Biol of Aging), 416 (Biol Cancer), 472 (Mammalian Physiol), ' 473 (Physiology Lab);
Business Management
- ACCTG 211 (Financial & Managerial Acctg);
- B A 241 (Legal Environment of Business); B A 242 Social and Ethical Environment of Business)
- HPA 101 (Intro to Hlth Services Organization), 332 (Hlth Systems Mgmt), 433 (Adm of Hospital & Hlth Service Systms), 442 (Long-Trm Care Mgmt),' 460 (Hum Resource Mgmt in Hlth Care Orgs), 455 (Strategic Plan & Mktg for Hlth Services),
- HRIM 335 (Hosp Fin Acctg);
Communications
- COMM 100 GS (Mass Media & Soc);
- ENGL 215 (Intro Article Writg),
- AEE 440 (Communication Meth & Media);
- IST 110 (Intro to Info Sc & Tech);
- CAS 313 (Persuasive Speak)
Community Nutrition / Public Health
- ANTH 45 GS (Cultural Anth);
- BBH/HPA 440 (Prin of Epidem);
- HDFS 410 (Community & Family);
- NURS 401 (Concepts of Hlth);
- NUTR / STS 430 (Global Food Strat), NUTR 421 (Cultural Aspects Food), 497C (Food Tech Culture),
- STS 460 (Sci Tech & Policy)
Counseling and Clinical Dietetics:
- BBH 101 (Intro to Biobeh Hlth), 119 (Hlth & Disease), 302 (Diversity & Hlth), 452 (Women Hlth Issues);
- CN ED 403 (Found Guidance & Couns), 409 (Medical Info Counselors);
- HPA 057 (Consumer Choice Hlth Cre), * 310 (Hlth Care & Med Needs);
- HDFS 129 (Intro to HDFS), ' 311 (HDFS Intervention), + 411 (Helping Relns);
- KINES 297J (Medical Terminology)
- NUTR 170 (Careers in Nutr), 401 (Nutr Clinic Prac);
- PSYCH 100 GS (Intro Psych), 243 (Well-Being & Adjustmt), 412 (Abnormal Psy)
Food Industry
- AG EC 440 (Fd Product Innovation Mgmt), 460 (Econ Food Industry);
- FD SC 200 (Intro Fd Sc), 201 (Intro Fd Sc Lab), 400 (Food Chemistry), 402 (Food Chem Lab), 404 (Food Evaluation), ' 407 (Fd Toxins), 408 (Appl Fd Micrb), 409W (Lab Appl Fd Micrb), 410 (Chem Meth Fd Anly), 411 (Mgmt Food Qual), 497A (Food Product Development),
- HRIM 497K (Product Development)
Gerontology
- BIOL 055 GN, 409 (Biol of Aging);
- HPA 442 (Long-Term Care Mgmt);
- HD FS 249 GS (Adult Dev Aging),445 (Adulthood);
- KINES 481W (Scientific Basis Exercise Older Adult);
- NURS 464 (Dying & Death); SOC 35 (Soc of Aging)
Immunology:
- MICRB 410 (Prin of Immunol);
- VSC 432 (Adv Immunol, Signaling), ' 435 (Medical Virology)
International Nutrition
- AEE 400 (Ag Ed in Devlp Country);
- GEOG 103 (Geog Developing World);
- INTAG 100 GS (Intro Intl Ag); 481 (Agr in the Tropics);
- NUTR 399 (Rome: Med Diet), 421 (Cultural Aspects Food), 499 (Rome: Intl Nutr Ed); NUTR / STS 430 (Global Food Strat)
Nutrition Education
- EDPSY 014 (Learning Instruc);
- HDFS 229 (Infancy Childhood), 239 (Adol Dev), ' 330 (Chldrn/Yth & Family);
- INSYS 400 (Intro Inst Tech);
- NUTR 375 (HealthWorks), 499 (Rome: Intl Nutr Ed);
- PSYCH 212 (Devl Psychology), 256 (Intro Cog Psy), 412 (Adolescence)
Marketing and Sales
- HPA 455 (Strategic Plan & Mktg for Hlth Services);
- HRIM 442 (Hospitality Mktg), 443 (Sales Plan & Adv);
- MKTG 220 (Personal Selling), 310 (Pub Relatn & Mktg), 330 (Buyer Behavior);
- RPM 410 (Mktg Recr Serv)
Pre-med, pre-dental, pre-optometry, pre-PT
(Basic option plus CHEM 36 meets most med-school admission requirements. Be sure to consult with adviser for your situation.):
- MATH 141 (Calc Anly Geom II);
- PHYS 212 (Elect & Magnetism), 213 (Fluids & Thermal Phys), 214 (Wave Motion & Quan)
Research Skills
- AG 400 (Stat in Life Sci);
- BBH 310W (Res Strategies BB H);
- HD FS 312W (Empirical Inquiry);
- PSYCH 301W (Basic Methods Psych); STAT 250 (Biostatistics)
Sports and Wellness
- BBH 316 (Fund Prin Hlth Prom),416 (Hlth Promotion II), 417 (Adv Hlth Prom);
- BIOL 129 (Mammalian Anatomy), 142 (Physiol Lab);
- KINES 141 (Physical Activity: Historical and Cultural), 180 (Introduction ot Kinesiology), 202 (Functional Anatomy), 350 (Exercise Physio), 456 (Physical Fitness Appr), 457 (Exer Prescription), 492W (Fitness Program);
- NUTR 497B (Nutr Physical Activ Exer Hlth)