A practice-based approach to public health nutrition processes through readings, lectures and active participation; assessing community needs, priorities and goals; implementing nutrition interventions; designing nutrition plans; building coalitions; and preparing grant applications.

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.

This course will focus on how culture and ethnicity affect dietary practices and health in the US. The influence of acculturation, food security and politics on food availability, food practices and health outcomes will be discussed, along with health and health disparities in different cultural/ethnic groups. Emphasis will also be on cross-cultural communication processes to address health and nutrition concerns in research and practice.

Skills and techniques needed to effectively carry out community nutrition programs and nutrition education, including knowledge of agencies and programs, community assessment, legislation, nutrition education, and working with people.

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