Nutrition and Wellness

Degree Type
Associate in Science

Nutrition is the study of food and how it affects the health and growth of our bodies. A degree in Nutrition and Wellness offers students an opportunity to pursue careers in community health occupations along with food service. The addition of Nutrition and Wellness to NCC’s degree offerings would encourage students to pursue a degree which aligns with food, nutrition, health and the well-being of the human body and its systems.

Graduates will be able to:

  1. Understand, critically assess and know how to use and apply information sources related to nutrition, food, lifestyle and health. Identifying and classifying food and foodstuffs based on their composition, properties, nutritional value and sensory.
  2. Understand the basic processes involved in the preparation, transformation and conservation of foods of both animal and vegetable origin.
  3. Obtain adequate knowledge and skills necessary for critical thinking regarding diet and health so the individual can make healthy food choices from an increasingly complex food supply.
  4. Students will be able to interpret and apply nutrition concepts to evaluate and improve the nutritional health of communities.
  5. Become familiar with nutrients, their function in an organism, bioavailability, requirements and recommended quantities, as well as the bases of energetic and nutritional balance.
  6. Examine and evaluate the relationship between food and nutrition in health and/or illness while identifying and applying food principles to food and nutrition systems.
  7. Design and carry out health status assessment protocols, and identifying nutritional risk factors.

In addition, the graduate will be able to demonstrate competency in the general education outcomes.

Sub-Total Credits
61
Total Credits
61
Course Sequencing
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Sub-Total Credits
15
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Humanities/Fine Arts/Philosophy or Global Awareness  +
3
Sub-Total Credits
16
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Elective in Major for Nutrition and Wellness  +
3
Sub-Total Credits
14