Dietetics Option Dietetics concerns a knowledge of foods and their use to maintain health and in some cases, treat disease. This includes understanding both the nutrient composition and cultural and community aspects of diets, as well as biochemical and physiological aspects. The Dietetics option emphasizes nutrition and food service and prepares students for careers as clinical dietitians and nutritionists, educators, health promotion facilitators, and consumer specialists in food and nutrition. After students have satisfied the core requirements, they can proceed to the dietetics option. Advanced courses stress human nutrition and its application to diet and health.
Students take organic chemistry, biochemistry, anatomy, physiology, economics and statistics.
Nutrition Option Nutrition emphasizes the metabolic aspects of how organisms use food. The nutrition option also prepares for entry-level jobs in biomedical research fields in industry and academia. The option in Food Service Administration is for students who want careers in food service marketing or in managing food service in schools, hotels, restaurants, cafeterias, corporations, hospitals, and long-term care facilities. Students complete the basic course work and then study food production and techniques for organizing and managing a food service. To supplement this concentration, students choose from elective courses in agribusiness and food science, such as institutional food production, managing food-service systems, institutional organization and management, computer applications in food service, nutrition education, and world food customs and nutrition.