Family and consumer sciences is the college s largest department with 337 undergraduate and 47 graduate students. The three options in the program s curriculum dietetics, pre-health and food science are challenging, because they re heavily based in the sciences. Students receive field experience in hospitals, clinics and community settings, and many go to work for the same companies upon graduation. Dietetics is the most popular of the program s options, says Wanda Morgan, an associate professor who teaches dietetics and pre-health classes. Students in dietetics learn to apply the science of nutrition to the diet.
Graduates have the opportunity to become registered dietitians or licensed nutritionists.
Many work in hospitals and other health care facilities. But the internships are not easy to come by. The national average of interns accepted from dietetic programs is 50 percent, Morgan says. Nine out of 10 of our students were accepted into top-notch programs this year. In addition to being a nutritional scientist, Morgan is a certified diabetes educator.