Bachelor of Science - Community Nutrition

Program Description 

The BS in Community Nutrition program affords its graduates the skills needed to work in various employment positions including Department of Health and Human Services (Women, Infants, and Children program), Child Nutrition programs in public schools, Cooperative Extensions, corporate wellness programs, entrepreneurship, nonprofit feeding programs such as The Hunger Relief Alliance, as well as others. Students will be able to take the exam for the ServSafe Certification and will be prepared to go to graduate school. Students who elect a BS in Community Nutrition will not be awarded a verification statement to make them eligible to apply for a dietetic internship. If the student decides at a later date to apply for an internship, classes like Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, and the DPD requirements of Medical Nutrition Therapy I and II (as well as others) will be required.