Principles of marketing, financial management, and human resource management applied to foodservice operations. Restricted to students in the MSCMD program.

This course will integrate the sciences of exercise physiology and nutrition and discuss its application in enhancing athletic performance and the prevention and management of chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Training induced adaptations of the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems, muscle, metabolism and body composition will be examined. Evidence- bases sports nutrition recommendations and the science behind them will be discussed.

This course assists the student in collection of appropriate subjective and objective data associated with obtaining a health and diet history. This course provides an introduction to physical and diagnostic assessment of health status. Physical assessment competencies to be attained at the novice level include: assessment of body composition; measurement of vital signs; blood glucose; physical assessment of fluid status; assessment of "normal breath" and heart sounds; intra and extra - oral assessment, dysphasia screening; and clinical assessment of nutrition status. The emphasis is on knowing normal findings and normal variations in the healthy adult, well child, and the well elder person.

This course assists the student in collecting appropriate subjective and objective data associated with obtaining a health and diet history. This course provides an introduction to physical and diagnostic assessment of health status. Physical assessment competencies to be attained at the novice level include: assessment of body composition; measurement of vital signs; blood glucose; and clinical assessment of nutrition status. A review of MNT along with developing skills necessary for nutritional assessment and nutritional care of individuals throughout the life cycle. Graded CR/NC. This course is for dietetics internship students only.

This course covers advanced nutrition and health assessment. Students will learn and apply various methods for assessing dietary intake and advanced anthropometry and physical examination. In addition, this course will cover the assessment of visceral and somatic protein, vitamins, minerals, blood chemistry, and novel nutrition biomarkers. Further, this class will delve into the treatment of abnormal blood-based nutritional biomarkers.

Nutrition principles applied to human development in various stages of the life cycle: maternal and infant, childhood, adolescent, adult and elderly. Introduction to nutrition counseling.

Study of various acute and chronic disease processes in relationship to the most current principles of nutrition management.

Exploration of the processes used by the Cochrane Library and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Evidence Analysis Library to analyze scientific evidence to improve nutrition practice. Students will develop a unique PICO question and conduct a systematic analysis of relevant evidence using the protocol from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Evidence Analysis Library.

Apply fundamental nutrition concepts to understand how diet and exercise intersect with health and performance. For the athlete to maximize performance and for the general consumer interested in overall fitness, health, and wellbeing.

Discuss current research unfolding in the field of chronic inflammation, how this inflammation is related to a variety of disease states and the impact nutrition can have on improving the inflammatory state.