NUTR 361Community and Public Health Nutrition

3 credits · Nutrition · Penn State

This course covers a range of topics around nutritional issues related to population-level health. Community or public health work appeals to many graduates of Nutritional Sciences because it allows them to directly affect the nutritional status of large groups of people. Many nutritionists are drawn to community and public health work because it allows them to practice a variety of skills, such as assessing the nutritional needs, planning interventions, designing educational programs, and conducting program evaluation. In this course, students learn the theory behind community assessment, policy development, intervention planning, and program management and will have an opportunity to practice the skills necessary to carry out these activities through in-class activities and assignments. By the end of this course, students will have a deeper understanding of which population groups in the US benefit from federal food and nutrition assistance programs; what these programs are; what laws and policies regulate them; and how they operate.