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Nutritional Sciences (NSCI)
NSCI 5613 Advanced Nutrition Education and Counseling Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Description: Analysis of various learning and behavior change theories and application in nutrition education. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Nutritional Sciences NSCI 5643 Advanced Medical Nutrition Therapy Prerequisites: Admission to dietetic internship or consent of instructor. Description: Physiological and metabolic bases for nutritional support in disease. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Nutritional Sciences NSCI 5673 Human Resources Prerequisites: Admission to Great Plains IDEA online MS in Dietetics or consent of instructor. Description: Future role, focus, practices and governance of human resources in health care. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Nutritional Sciences NSCI 5683 Fundamentals of Leadership in Dietetics Prerequisites: Admission to Great Plains IDEA online MS in Dietetics or consent of instructor. Description: Study of the key issues in the theory, research, and application of leadership within the context of dietetics practice. Includes defining leadership, understanding situational characteristics that facilitate/hinder effective leadership, understanding effective/ dysfunctional leadership, and gaining greater insight into one's own leadership style and functioning. Web-based instruction. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Nutritional Sciences NSCI 5713 Advanced Community Nutrition Prerequisites: NSCI 2114, NSCI 3223 and NSCI 4733 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Description: Current issues in community nutrition with emphasis on program development and evaluation of community nutrition programs. Analysis of the impact of economic, political, legislative and cultural diversity factors in the field of community nutrition. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Nutritional Sciences
NSCI 5743 Advanced Laboratory Techniques in Nutritional Sciences Prerequisites: A course in biochemistry and a course in statistics. Description: An integrated lecture and laboratory course examining the basic theories and techniques used in experimental nutritional sciences. Application of a range of biochemical and molecular biological techniques as they are currently applied to modern biomedical research. Additional flat fee of $45.00 applies. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 2 Lab: 2 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lab, Lecture, Combined lecture and lab
Department/School: Nutritional Sciences NSCI 5753 Health Care Administration Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Description: Overview of U.S. and international health care systems. Administrative roles of health care professionals and how they affect patient health and health care delivery in various settings. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Nutritional Sciences NSCI 5843 Non-thesis Graduate Capstone Prerequisites: Final semester and consent of instructor. Description: A guided course with a comprehensive examination, research paper and presentation that is the final requirement for graduate students in NSCI’s Master of Science degree, non-thesis plan. Not recommended for students interested in pursuing a PhD. Graded on a pass-fail basis. Previously offered as NSCI 5840. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture
Department/School: Nutritional Sciences NSCI 5870 Problems in Nutritional Science
Description: Analysis of emerging problems and trends in nutritional sciences. Offered for variable credit, 1-4 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-4 Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Nutritional Sciences NSCI 5913 Nutritional Epidemiology Prerequisites: HLTH 5323 or MPH 5323 or admission to NSCI graduate program, and Introductory Nutrition and Statistics, or consent of instructor. Description: Assessing the impact of nutrition and physical activity on health outcomes from an epidemiological perspective. Attention will be given to understanding the spectrum of study designs, including their benefits and drawbacks, used to examine this relationship. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Nutritional Sciences
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