Dec 24, 2025  
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

NUTR 6100 - Scientific Principles of Nutrition


3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: BIOL 2107K & 2108K or consent of instructor.
Description
The course is designed to provide graduate students who are not nutrition majors with an understanding of macro- and micronutrient metabolism and the scientific basis of nutrient requirements. The course will also focus on nutrient associations with disease and applying scientific nutrition principles to contemporary nutrition issues. This course serves as a prerequisite for subsequent graduate nutrition courses. L