Courses Details
NUTR640: Nutritional Assessment
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s):
- Prerequisites: EHS 630, Nutrition Science
- Description: This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the methods and approaches for conducting nutrition assessment of individuals and populations throughout the lifecycle. The course is structured into three assessment components: dietary, biochemical, and body size and body composition. Main topics include in-depth overview of the assessment methods, strengths and limitations of methodology, evaluation and interpretation of assessment data, sources of measurement errors, validity of assessment methods, and basic analytical approaches used to interpret assessment data.
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | NUTR | MPH | Apply the principles and methods of nutrition assessment to monitor nutritional status and trends, identify at-risk individuals & groups, and investigate diet and disease relationships | NUTR640 | NUTR | MS | Apply the principles and methods of nutrition assessment to monitor nutritional status and trends, identify at-risk individuals & groups, and investigate diet and disease relationships | NUTR640 | NUTR | Molecular and Biochemical Nutrition | PhD | Propose appriopriate nutritional assessment methodologies in a research context | NUTR640 | NUTR | Nutritional Epidemiology | PhD | Apply the principles and methods of nutrition assessment to monitor nutritional status and trends, identify at-risk individuals, monitor progress of programs, and investigate diet/disease relationships | NUTR640 |
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