Expand Your Knowledge. Improve Lives.
Nutrition plays an essential role in human health, wellbeing and disease prevention. The Nutrition minor complements your major with a scientific understanding of how food and nutrients affect the body, helping you connect your interests with opportunities in healthcare, wellness, research and related fields.
What You’ll Study
Explore the science of human nutrition through coursework that examines how nutrients support the body, influence health and contribute to disease prevention. You’ll build foundational knowledge of nutrition principles and their connections to human biology and wellbeing.
What You’ll Take Away
Gain a deeper understanding of nutrition science and how it applies to human health. You’ll develop knowledge that complements your major, broadens your career opportunities and strengthens your preparation for graduate study or health-related professions.
Understanding Nutrition. Expanding Opportunities.
From supporting human health to understanding nutritional needs throughout life, discover how nutrition science connects with the world around us. Explore the knowledge and practical applications that can complement your major and broaden your future opportunities.
Health and Wellness
Explore how nutrition influences health, wellbeing and disease prevention. Build an understanding of how nutrients support the body while learning how food choices can contribute to healthier lifestyles and long-term health.
Nutrition Across the Lifespan
Discover how nutritional needs change throughout life, from childhood and adolescence to adulthood and aging. Explore how nutrition supports growth, development and health at different life stages while building knowledge you can apply across a variety of fields.
Nutrition Science in Practice
Connect nutrition knowledge with real-world applications across health, wellness and related industries. Explore how scientific research and nutrition principles inform decisions, support healthier communities and complement your professional interests.
Coursework Highlights
Explore courses that take food science from theory to practice. Through hands-on learning in food chemistry, processing, nutrition, sensory evaluation and product development, you’ll build the knowledge and skills to create safe, nutritious and innovative foods.
Class and Lab Options
Discover the science behind how food nourishes the body. You’ll explore nutrient structure, metabolism and nutritional needs while learning how nutrition principles can support healthy living and overall wellbeing.
Build a broad foundation how nutrition supports health, growth and development from pregnancy through adolescence. You’ll examine nutritional needs and challenges related to fertility, pregnancy, breastfeeding and childhood while exploring current issues in maternal and child nutrition.
Explore how nutritional needs change as we age and how nutrition supports health and quality of life. You’ll examine age-related changes in the body, chronic disease and nutritional assessment while learning strategies to promote healthy aging and longevity.
Explore how the body breaks down and uses carbohydrates, fats and proteins to produce energy and support essential functions. You’ll examine the metabolic pathways that regulate how nutrients are processed, stored and used to support human health.
Examine how effective communication and counseling can help people make informed nutrition choices. You’ll develop skills in nutrition education, behavior change and counseling techniques while applying what you learn through hands-on community-based projects.
Explore how nutrition programs and education can improve health across communities. You’ll learn to assess community nutrition needs, develop educational programs and plan strategies that promote healthy living, support disease prevention and address public health challenges.
Discover how science shapes the foods we prepare and enjoy. Through experimentation, you’ll explore how ingredients, cooking techniques and nutritional, cultural and economic factors influence food quality, preparation and choices across diverse populations.
Add Nutrition to Your Degree
Discover how the Nutrition Minor can add practical knowledge and a new perspective on production, processing and the food industry.