Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences

Online Undergraduate Course Options
Fall 2024 registration opens July 10, 2024; semester begins August 26, 2024

NUTR 3610 Nutritional Aspects of Organic Chemistry (3 credits)
This course covers organic chemistry principles and concepts related to nutrition and dietetics. It serves as a fundamental course for understanding how organic compounds are assimilated into the body by digestion, absorption, and intermediary metabolism. The significance and role of these compounds found in the food supply and in the body is emphasized.

NUTR 3720 Principles of Human Nutrition and Metabolism ( 4 credits)
This course provides a foundation of macronutrient and micronutrient metabolism to help students understand the nutritional/biochemical processes involved in health and disease. It covers the structure and function of macronutrients (proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids), metabolic bioenergetic pathways, and the role of nucleic acids in genetic information. The course will cover the functions, metabolism, sources, and current recommendations for the use of vitamins and minerals, with an emphasis on their impact on human health and disease.

NUTR 3100 Experimental Foods (3 credits)
This course explores the fundamentals of experimental foods from a scientific perspective. Topics include the research process; sensory and objective evaluation of foods; physical aspects of food preparation; components of foods including water, carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins; food safety and preservation; and food additives.

NUTR 5300 Nutrition Across the Lifespan (3 credits)
This course provides an understanding of diet and nutrition needs and factors impacting nutritional status across the lifespan from preconception to infancy, childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, adulthood, and gerontology. Emphasis is placed on the biological foundations of nutrient needs in each stage of the lifespan to target optimal growth, disease prevention, and overall health and well-being and identify the consequences of malnutrition. Critical evaluation of nutrition information with a focus on existing controversies, the role of diet and nutrition in chronic disease development and prevention and how environmental factors and lifestyle choices influence nutritional needs and requirements across the lifespan are also addressed. *This course will fulfill Intro Nutrition prerequisite

Note: Completion of prerequisites courses does not guarantee admissions into MSCN: for aspiring dietitians program.

MSCN: for aspiring dietitians Prerequisite Courses Offered at Rutgers School of Health Professions
These courses are web-based

If you wish to register as a non-matriculated student, please go to: https://shp.rutgers.edu/center-for-advanced-and-continuing-education/

For more information, please contact Emily Peters MPH at elmscn@shp.rutgers.edu