Courses in Nutrition and Public Health
Master's Degree Courses
- Nutrition Counseling (2)
- Nutritional Epidemiology (3)
- Principles of Epidemiology (3)
- Analysis of Current Literature (3)
- Planning Health Education Programs (3)
- Social Policy and Prevention or other elective (3)
- Fieldwork (3) or DI Program
- Master's Project or Thesis
Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) Courses
- Advanced Nutrition I & II (3 credits each)
- Community Nutrition (2)
- Nutritional Ecology (3)
- Food, Nutrition, and Behavior (3)
- Nutrition Care Process & Medical Nutrition Therapy I (3)
- Nutrition Care Process & Medical Nutrition Therapy II (3)
- Nutrition and Human Development (3)
- Research Methods (3)
- Strategies for Nutrition Education (3)
- English composition
- Communications or equivalent
- Microbiology without lab
- Food science with Lab
- Food service management
Master's Program Prerequisites
- Human physiology I & II (2 semesters with labs) OR 2 semesters of biology with labs plus 1 semester of human physiology without lab
- General/Inorganic chemistry with lab (1 comprehensive semester)
- Organic chemistry with lab (1 comprehensive semester)
- Biochemistry without lab (1 comprehensive semester)
- Basic/Introductory nutrition
- Statistics
- Graduate Record Exam (GRE)
Master's Degree in Nutrition and Public Health
In order to be a fully matriculated master's degree candidate, successful completion of several prerequisite courses and the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) is required. The prerequisite courses are shown above in the bottom half of the pink-shaded column. These courses will supply you with a foundation upon which to build your master's-level expertise in nutrition. The courses (along with field work and master's thesis/project) within the blue-shaded column, comprise the master's degree. A master's degree in Nutrition and Public Health consists of roughly 44-47 credits. Full-time students can expect to complete the master's degree in two years. However, the addition of other options, including the DPD and Dietetic Internship Program, will lengthen the time for completion.
Dietetic Internship Program
Should you wish to complete the Teacher's College Dietetic Internship Program (DI Program), which will enable you to become a registered dietitian (R.D.), successful completion of prerequisite coursework is essential. The prerequisite coursework for DI Program eligibility is referred to as the Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD). As the column above indicate, there is considerable overlap between master's degree courses (shaded in blue) and DPD courses (shaded in pink). Specifically, all courses within the pink-shaded column (including the master's degree prerequisite courses), are part of the DPD. The non-master's degree DPD courses are undergraduate-level courses and may be completed at any 2-year or 4-year accredited college or university.