This course builds on content from Medical Nutrition Therapy (NUTRITN 580) to provide a deeper understanding of various pathologies, feeding modalities, and disease states that require nutrition intervention. This class also includes practice on writing clinical nutrition documentation using the Nutrition Care Process (NCP).

Knowledge of dietary treatment of diseases (Medical Nutrition Therapy) applied in simulated one-on-one counseling settings. Topics include: interviewing/listening skills, assessing readiness, developing care plans, multicultural counseling, computerized diet analysis.

This class is designed to help you reflect and integrate what you have learned from your nutrition coursework as well as that from your Gen Ed courses and other experiences that have contributed to your development on the way to your final year at UMass. The goal of this course is for students to develop insight into the epidemiologic, physiologic, biochemical and nutritional complexities of major diet-related diseases in the United States. It satisfies the Integrated Experience requirement for BS-Nutrition majors.

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