Community Nutrition Minor
This program is available at the following location:
- Corvallis
This minor provides undergraduate students with a background in nutrition in community settings and practical applications and focuses on the scope of practice of Public Health Nutrition and K-12 education and other similar settings. It is ideal for students interested in learning more about community nutrition and practice, including Public Health, Kinesiology, Education, and Human Development and Family Sciences.
Minor Code: A029
Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:
- Explain food sources of nutrients important across lifespan and cultures and based on the nutritional needs of communities.
- Associate nutritional intake, food behaviors and physical activity with the risk of disease and health conditions by life stage.
- Review consumer-level and evidence-based food and nutrition resources and interventions at the household, local, and international levels.
- Assess community and population-level nutrition and food programs, policies, systems, and environments through a health equity lens.
- Apply principles of cultural humility through consideration of global food patterns.
Some of the courses in the minor have additional prerequisites or grade requirements that are separate from the minor.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Core | ||
| NUTR 216 | +*FOOD AND CULTURE | 3 |
| NUTR 225 | GENERAL HUMAN NUTRITION | 3 |
| or NUTR 240 | HUMAN NUTRITION | |
| NUTR 241 | APPLIED FOOD AND NUTRITION | 1 |
| NUTR 325 | NUTRITION ACROSS THE LIFESPAN | 3 |
| NUTR 423 | COMMUNITY NUTRITION | 4 |
| Electives | ||
| Select 13 credits from the following courses, with a minimum of 5 upper-division credits: | 13 | |
| Upper-Division | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN DISEASE | ||
| EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTH PROMOTION | ||
| INFANT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT | ||
| ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT | ||
| ADULT DEVELOPMENT AND AGING | ||
| GLOBAL NUTRITION | ||
| NUTRITION AND SOCIAL MARKETING | ||
| HUMAN NUTRITION SCIENCE: MACRONUTRIENTS | ||
| HUMAN NUTRITION SCIENCE: MICRONUTRIENTS | ||
| NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY | ||
| Lower-Division | ||
| +INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION THEORY | ||
| +*SOCIAL JUSTICE,CIVIL RIGHTS & MULTICULTURALISM IN EDUCATION | ||
| +LEARNING ACROSS THE LIFESPAN | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH | ||
| +*SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH | ||
| +*CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES IN THE U.S. | ||
| +*SOCIOCULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY | ||
| FOOD FOR ALL: YOU, US, AND THE PLANET | ||
| Total Credits | 27 | |
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Baccalaureate Core course. Applies to general education requirements for undergraduate students in a catalog year up to 2024-2025
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Core Education course. Applies to general education requirements for undergraduate students in catalog year 2025-2026 and beyond
Minor Code: A029