Nutrition Minor
Department of Food Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Description | Requirements | Required Courses | Elective Courses | Admissions/Certification of Minor | Contact

Description

The Minor in Nutrition will provide knowledge of the principles of nutrition that are needed to formulate balanced diets and to evaluate information and policies conderning foods and dietary practices. Students may select courses to emphasize human or animal nutrition or a combination of these.

The objectives for students pursuing the Nutrition Minor are to:

1. acquire an understanding of the functions of the nutrients in the health of humans and/or animals,
2. to learn to formulate nutritionally balanced diets for humans and/or animals, and
3. to learn to apply nutritional principles in the evaluation of information and policies concerning foods and dietary practices.

Requirements

• Must complete a minimum of 16 credit hours from the list provided below and
• A grade of 'C-' or better in each course.

Required Courses

BCH 451 Principles of Biochemistry (4 credit hrs)
NTR 390 Nutrition Seminar (1 credit hrs)

Elective Courses

Students must choose at least 11 credits from the following, with at least 6 credits at the 400 level or above:

FS 201 Food Science and the Consumer (3 credit hrs)
IDS 211 Eating Through American History (3 credit hrs)
NTR 301 Introduction to Human Nutrition (3 credit hrs)
NTR 400/500 Principles of Human Nutrition (3 credit hrs)
NTR (ANS, PO) 415 Comparative Nutrition (3 credit hrs)
NTR 419 Human Nutrition in Health and Disease (3 credit hrs)
NTR 420/520 Community Nutrition (3 credits hrs)
NTR 421/521 Life Cycle Nutrition (3 credit hrs)
NTR 492 External Learning Experience (1-6 credit hrs)*
NTR 493 Special Problems in Nutrition (1-6 credit hrs)*
NTR 495 Special Topics in Nutrition (1-3 credit hrs)
NTR 554 (ANS 454) Lactation, Milk and Nutrition (3 credit hrs)
NTR/FS 555 Exercise Nutrition (3 credit hrs)
NTR 624 Topical Problems in Nutrition (1-3 credit hrs)
ANS 225 Principles of Animal Nutrition (3 credit hrs)
ANS 230 Nutrition of Domestic Animals (3 credit hrs)
ANS 231 Nutrition of Domestic Animals Lab (1 credit hr)
ANS (NTR) 550 Applied Ruminant Nutrition (3 credit hrs)
PO (ANS) 425 Feed Mill Management and Feed Formulation (3 credit hrs)

* Not more than 3 hours from NTR 492 and NTR 493 may count toward the 11 hours of elective nutrition courses.

Admissions and Certification of Minor

Admissions
Students who plan to minor in Nutrition should submit a Declare a Minor form to the Coordinator of the Undergraduate Nutrition Program, Dr. Sarah Ash, 218F Schaub Hall.

Certification
Dr. Ash will certify the completion of the student's minor program. Certification must be submitted no later than the registration period for the student's final semester at NC State. The minor must be completed no later than the semester in which the student expects to graduate from his or her degree program.

Contact Person

Sarah Ash
218E Schaub Hall
919.515.4043

sarah_ash@ncsu.edu

last updated: Nov. 13, 2009