Nutrition and Dietetics

Provide students with basic competencies in Nutrition and Dietetics as an interdisciplinary approach.

  • Improve health services at the individual and population levels. 
  • Recognize nutrition-related concerns during the life span and demonstrate abilities to manage these issues.
  • Understand the importance of nutrition in disease prevention and disease management at different stages.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of food composition including macro and micronutrients, their nutritional value, and contribution to the overall quality of diet.
  • Display ability to gather and analyze data needed to solve the nutrition problem.
Minor in Nutrition (27 Credit Hours)

a. Compulsory Courses: (18 credit hours)

Course No.

Course title

Prerequisite(s)

NUTD231

Fundamentals Of Human Nutritionhuman Nutrition

 (CHEM230 or CHEM241) or Concurrent

NUTD233

Principles Of Food Preparation

NUTD231 

NUTD238

Life Cycle Nutrition 1 

NUTD231 

NUTD239

Life Cycle Nutrition 2

NUTD231 

NUTD331

Clinical Nutrition 1

NUTD238, NUTD239

NUTD332

Clinical Nutrition 2

NUTD238, NUTD239

 

b.Elective courses: (9 credit hours)

Course No.

Course Title

Prerequisite(s)

NUTD235

Contemporary Nutrition

NUTD231

NUTD334

Nutrition Deficiency Diseases

NUTD231

NUTD335

Nutrition And Culture: Mediterranean And Other Diets

NUTD231

NUTD337

Sports Nutrition

NUTD231

NUTD433

Emergency Nutrition

NUTD231