The mission of Winthrop University's human nutrition degree, nutrition science option, is to provide graduates with the foundation knowledge and skills needed for graduate study in medicine, dentistry, physical therapy, and physician's assistant and pharmacy programs. 

Courses of Study

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Major Requirements - 78 semester hours

Major Courses

   NUTR 221  Human Nutrition (3)

   NUTR 231  Food Composition (3)

   NUTR 232  Food Composition Laboratory (1)

   NUTR 227  Medical Terminology (1)

   NUTR 370  Cultural Foods (3)

   NUTR 421  Nutrition through the Life Span (3)

   NUTR 427  Principles of Clinical Nutrition (3)

   NUTR 428  Community Nutrition (3)

   NUTR 521  Nutrition and Metabolism (3)

   NUTR 523  Food Science Principles (3)

   NUTR 524  Sensory and Objective Evaluation of Foods (1)

   NUTR 527  Medical Nutrition Therapy (3)

   NUTR 534  Seminar in Human Nutrition (3)

   HCMT 200  Introduction to Health Care Management (3)

   BIOL  307   Human Anatomy (4)

   BIOL  308   Human Physiology (4)

   BIOL  310   Microbiology  (4)

   CHEM 105  General Chemistry I (3)

   CHEM 106  General Chemistry II (3)

   CHEM 107  General Chemistry Laboratory (1) *taken concurrently with CHEM 105

   CHEM 108  General Chemistry Laboratory (1) *taken concurrently with CHEM 106

   CHEM 301  Organic Chemistry I (3)

   CHEM 303  Organic Laboratory I (1) *taken concurrently with CHEM 301

   CHEM 521  Nutritional Biochemistry (3)

   CHEM 522  Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory (1) *taken concurrently with CHEM 521

   SPCH 201  Public Speaking (3)

   PSYC 206  Developmental Psychology (3) *PSYC 101 is prerequisite

   PHYS 201  General Physics I (4)

   PHYS 202  General Physics II (4)

General Education Requirements - 45-50 semester hours

   ACAD 101 (0-1) - required for first time freshmen only

Critical Writing and Critical Thinking

   WRIT  101  Composition (3)

   CRTW 201  Critical Reading, Thinking , and Writing (3)

Quantitative Skills

   MATH 150 or MATH 105 or Math 201 or a MATH course with MATH 201 as a prerequisite - Quantitative       Methods in Critical Thinking (3) or Calculus for the Managerial and Life Sciences (3) or Calculus I (3)

Logic/Language/Semiotics

   Foreign Language (102-level proficiency) (3-4)

   MATH 141  Finite Probability and Statistics (3)

Oral Communication - met in major

Technology

   CSCI 101 or 110  Introduction to Computers and Information Processing (3) or Introduction to Computers      and programming (3)

Skills for Common Experience and Thinking Across the Disciplines

   HMXP 102 The Human Experience: Who Am I? (3)

   Global Perspectives - See approved list

   Historical Perspectives - See approved list

Developing Critical Skills and Applying them to Disciplines

Natural Science - met in major

Social Science

   SOCL 101 or ANTH 201 Social Problems and Social Policy (3) or Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3)

   ECON 215 or ECON 216  Principles of Microeconomics (3) or Principles of Macroeconomics (3)

   PSYC 101  General Psychology (3)

Humanities and Art - select at least two courses from two different subject areas.  See approved list.

Intensive Writing - met in major

Constitution Requirement - See approved list; may be met by another requirement

Foreign Language Requirement* - 0-4 semester hours

Total Semester Hours - 124-129 hours

*Students completing the required program in BS Human Nutrition must demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language at or above the second semester college level.  This requirement may be met by a satisfactory score on a recognized proficiency examination or by passing any foreign language course numbered 102 or any course with 102 as a prerequisite.  A maximum of 3 semester hours may be applied to the Logic/Language/Semiotics Area.

The Winthrop University online Undergraduate Catalog also lists the BS Human Nutrition Science Option degree requirements, along with descriptions of the courses above.

revised 2009