Courses required for the Nutrition and Dietetics major include:

• BIO 1001G - Biological Principles and Issues. Credits: 3

• (also counted as general education)

• BIO 1004G - Practical Microbiology. Credits: 3
• BIO 2210 - Anatomy and Physiology I. Credits: 4
• BIO 2220 - Anatomy and Physiology II. Credits: 4
• BUS 3010 - Management and Organizational Behavior. Credits: 3
• CHM 1310G - General Chemistry I. Credits: 3

• (also counted as general education)

• CHM 1315G - General Chemistry Laboratory I. Credits: 1

• (also counted as general education)

• CHM 1410 - General Chemistry II. Credits: 3
• CHM 1415 - General Chemistry Laboratory II. Credits: 1
• CHM 2430 - Survey of Organic Chemistry. Credits: 3
• CHM 3300 - Survey of Biochemistry. Credits: 3
• GEO 2000G - Food and Agriculture. Credits: 3

• (also counted as Social/Behavioral Sciences general education)

• MAT 2250G - Elementary Statistics. Credits: 4

• (also counted as general education)

• NTR 1120 - Food Science. Credits: 3
• NTR 1121 - Food Service Sanitation. Credits: 1 *
• NTR 2100 - Personal Nutrition. Credits: 3
• OR  NTR 2190 - Honors Personal Nutrition. Credits: 3
• NTR 2750 - Nutrition Assessment & Counseling. Credits: 3
• NTR 3500 - Professional Focus on Nutrition and Dietetics. Credits: 2
• NTR 3755 - Nutrition Across the Lifespan. Credits: 3
• NTR 3756 - Community Nutrition Interventions. Credits: 3
• NTR 3757 - Nutrition for Physical Performance. Credits: 3
• HTM 3784 - Commercial Quantity Food Production. Credits: 4
• NTR 4164 - Professional Grant Writing. Credits: 1
• NTR 4275 - Internship. Credits: 3 or 6
• NTR 4750 - Advanced Human Nutrition. Credits: 3
• NTR 4751 - Nutrition Therapy. Credits: 4 (See Footnote #)
• NTR 4940 - Food Service Management. Credits: 3
• NUR 1511 - Pathways: Health and Human Services. Credits: 1
• NUR 2613 - Medical Terminology. Credits: 3
• PHI 1900G - Logical and Critical Reasoning. Credits: 3

• (also counted as Humanities general education)

• PSY 1879G - Introductory Psychology. Credits: 3

• (also counted as Social/Behavioral Sciences general education)

• PUBH 2500 - Introduction to Motivational Interviewing. Credits: 1
• PUBH 2800 - Foundations of Public Health Research & Scholarship. Credits: 3
• PUBH 4783 - Health Politics and Policy. Credits: 3

Footnotes:

*Students who already have current ServSafe/Allergen certification are exempted from this requirement.
# Replaces Senior Seminar University Graduation Requirement.

(Major GPA based on all Nutrition and Dietetics courses taken at EIU.)

Depending on Foreign Language and Math Placement, electives may be needed to meet 120 semester hours.