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Required Courses

A. NFS Dietetic Core Courses (49 Credits)

Course # Course Name
Credits
NFS 131 Food Science I
3
NFS 141 Nutrition I
2
NFS 330 Food Science II
3
NFS 331 Food Science II
3
NFS 333 Nutrition Education
3
NFS 335 Institutional Management
1
NFS 341 Advanced Nutrition I
1
NFS 342 Nutrition and Human Development
1
NFS 343 Medical Nutrition Therapy I
2
NFS 402 Seminar in Nutrition and Food Science
1
NFS 435 Food Service Systems
2
NFS 441 Community Nutrition
1
NFS 442 Medical Nutrition Therapy II
2
NFS 445 Advanced Nutrition II Laboratory
1
BIOL 230 Microbiology Lecture and Lab
3
BIOL 280 Biochemistry of Health and Nutrition
3
  TOTAL
49


B. Distribution Requirements (42 credits required)

Category I - Sciences and Mathematics (12 Credits)

Course # Course Name
Credits
CHEM 100 Essentials of General Chemistry Lecture
3
CHEM 101 Essentials of General Chemistry Laboratory
1.5
CHEM 120 Essentials of Organic Chemistry Lecture
3
CHEM 121 Essentials of Organic Chemistry Laboratory
1.5
STAT 113 Elementary Probability and Statistics
3
  TOTAL
12

 

Category II - English Composition (3 credits)
Course # Course Name
Credits
ENGL 120 Expository Writing
3
  TOTAL
3

 

Category III - Humanities: Foreign Language
No courses in this category are required for the NFS major.

 

Category IV - Humanities: Literature   (6 Credits)

Course # Course Name
Credits
ENGL 220 Introduction to Literature
3
BLPR 236 Afro-American Literature
3
BLPR 237 Afro-Caribbean Literature
3
  TOTAL
9

 

Category V - Humanities and the Arts (6 Credits)
The following are recommended, but others are available.

Course # Course Name
Credits
ARTH 111 Introduction to History of Art
3
MUSHL 101 Introduction to Music
3
PHILO 106 Philosophy, Politics, Society
3
PHILO 170 Introduction to Logic & Scientific Meth
3
BLPR 222 African Civilization
3
BLPR 243 Puerto Rican Civilization
3
CHIN 111 Chinese Culture I
3
  TOTAL
24

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