Nutrition and Medical Sciences (BS)

Program Educational Goals

The program will prepare students who will:

1. Demonstrate proficiency of nutrient metabolism and the scientific basis of nutrient requirements throughout the life cycle.
2. Recognize principal classes of biomolecules and their structural and metabolic interrelationships.
3. Develop a greater awareness and understanding of how discrimination, structural bias, and social inequities have developed over time to create the health disparities seen today, and describe how these may be overcome to achieve health equity.
4. Describe population-based guidelines and nutrition assistance programs that champion nutrition across the lifespan.
5. Demonstrate competency in the practice of the nutrition care process, including principles and methods of assessment, diagnosis, interventions, monitoring and evaluation that are evidence-based and demonstrate integrated knowledge of metabolism, nutrient functions, food sources, physiologic systems and disease.
6. Demonstrate the ability to identify, critically evaluate, and synthesize, peer-reviewed nutrition-related research.