Courses of Study 2021-2022

Apr 30, 2024

Courses of Study 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Nutritional Sciences

A major in Nutritional Sciences focuses on the complex interrelationships of food patterns, nutritional status, and health. This field draws upon chemistry, biology, and the social sciences to understand questions such as: How are nutrients used by the body? What factors influence human food choice? What nutrients and dietary patterns are recommended to promote growth, maintain health, or reduce the risk of chronic disease? Students in this program may also fulfill the courses required for didactic training in dietetics toward becoming a Registered Dietitian, which will enable them to be employed as nutrition counselors, clinical nutritionists, sports nutritionists, or administrators of food and nutrition services. Students also may prepare for medical school and other types of advanced degree programs through this major. This major is offered by the Division of Nutritional Sciences . More information about this major can be found on the Division’s webpage, which includes descriptions of all of the majors that are offered.

NS Major in Human Ecology

The requirements listed below pertain to all students matriculating in August 2021 and January 2022.

In addition to college requirements , students in the NS Major must complete specific requirements listed here.

Introductory Chemistry

Introductory Chemistry (8 credits)

This fulfills the college distribution natural sciences requirement.

Choose one of the following options:
(a)   CHEM 2070  General Chemistry I (4 cr) and CHEM 2080  General Chemistry II (4 cr)¹
(b)   (AP Chemistry score of 5 or IB Chemistry score of 6 or 7) and CHEM 2080  General Chemistry II (4 cr)²
(c)   (AP Chemistry score of 5 or IB Chemistry score of 6 or 7) and CHEM 2150  Honors General and Inorganic Chemistry (4 cr)³
¹Recommended for nearly all students, especially those on or considering a pre-health (e.g. pre-med) track.
²Students may use an AP Chemistry score of 5 or an IB Chemistry score of 6 or 7 to place out of CHEM 2070. Pre-health (e.g. pre-med) students should not use AP scores to fulfill chemistry requirements. Students who take CHEM 2070 forfeit AP or IB credit.
³Students should only select option (c) if they are very strong in chemistry and are not considering a pre-health (e.g. pre-med) track.

Introductory Biology

Introductory Biology (8 credits)
Choose one of the following labs:
(a) BIOG 1500 Investigative Lab (2 cr) OR
(b) BIOSM 1500 Investigative Marine Biology Lab (3 cr)

AND choose two out of the three lecture options^1:
(a)    BIOMG 1350  Cell and Development (3 cr)
(b)    BIOG 1440  Comparative Physiology (3 cr) OR²
BIOG 1445  Comparative Physiology (autotutorial) (4cr)
(c)    BIOEE 1610  Ecology and the Environment (3cr) OR²
BIOEE 1780  Evolution and Diversity (3cr)
^{1 Students may use use AP Biology score of 5 or IB HL Biology score of 7 to place out of one introductory biology lecture. Pre-health (e.g. pre-med) students should not use AP scores to fulfill biology requirements.}

^{2 Cannot take both courses within one category to fulfill this requirement.}

Organic Chemistry Lecture

Organic Chemistry Lecture (3+ credits)
Choose one of the following:
(a)   CHEM 1570  Elementary Organic Chemistry (3 cr, not for pre-health) OR
(b)   CHEM 3530  Principles of Organic Chemistry (4 cr) OR
(c)   CHEM 3570  Organic Chemistry for the Life Sciences I (3 cr) AND CHEM 3580  Organic Chemistry for the Life Sciences II (3 cr) OR¹
(d)   CHEM 3590  Honors Organic Chemistry I (4 cr) AND CHEM 3600 Honors Organic Chemistry II (4 cr)²
1 Students interested in pre-health tracks should take a two-course sequence of organic chemistry lectures (option c or d above).

2 Students who select options c or d above must take both courses in sequence; one course alone will not fulfill requirement.

Organic Chemistry Lab

Organic Chemistry Lab (2-4 credits)
(a) CHEM 2510 Introduction to Experimental Organic Chemistry (2 cr) OR
(b) CHEM 3010 Honors Experimental Chemistry (4 cr)

Physiology

Physiology (3-4 credits)¹
Choose one of the following:
(a)   NS 3410  Human Anatomy and Physiology (4 cr) OR
(b)   BIOAP 3110  Animal Physiology (3 cr)
1 Pre-health students might also consider taking NS 3420  Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab (2 cr), which also counts toward advance biology elective requirement.

Biochemistry

Biochemistry (4-6 credits)
Choose one of the following:
(a)   NS 3200  Introduction to Human Biochemistry (4 cr) OR
(b)   BIOMG 3300  Principles of Biochemistry (4 cr) OR
(c)   BIOMG 3310  Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins and Metabolism (3 cr) AND BIOMG 3320  Principles of Biochemistry: Molecular Biology (2 cr) OR
(d)   BIOMG 3310  Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins and Metabolism (3 cr) AND BIOMI 2900 General Microbiology (3 cr) OR
(e)   BIOMG 3330  Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins, Metabolism, and Molecular Biology (4 cr) OR
(f)   BIOMG 3350  Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins, Metabolism, and Molecular Biology (4 cr)

NS Core Courses

Nutritional Sciences Core Courses (16 credits)

NS 1150  Nutrition, Health and Society (3 cr)
NS 2450  Social Science Perspective on Food and Nutrition (3 cr)
NS 3450  Introduction to Physiochemical and Biological Aspects of Food (3 cr)
NS 3310  Nutrient Metabolism (4 cr)
NS 3320  Methods in Nutritional Sciences (3 cr)

Advanced Electives in Nutrition

Advanced Electives in Nutrition (9+ credits)

At least 9 credits of NS courses at the 3000 level or above (see below for NS courses at the 3000/4000 level organized by area of interest).

Notes:

May include NS 3410 only if BIOAP 3110 is used to fulfill the physiology requirement.
May include no more than a total of 3 credits from NS 4000 Directed Readings, NS 4010 Empirical Research, NS 4020 Supervised Fieldwork, and NS 4990 Honors Research.
May not include NS 3200 , NS 3980 , NS 4620 , or NS 4030 Teaching Apprenticeship.

Economic Influences on Human Nutrition

Nutrition and Global Health (3 cr)
NS 4450  // AEM 4450  Toward a Sustainable Global Food System: Food Policy for Developing Countries (3 cr)
NS 4480  Economics of Food and Malnutrition (3 cr)
NS 4570  Health, Poverty, and Inequality: A Global Perspective (3 cr)

Nutrition and Public Health

NS 3600  Epidemiology (3 cr)
NS 3610  Hot and Hidden Topics in Global and Public Health (2 cr)
NS 4300  Proteins, Transcripts, and Metabolism: Big Data in Molecular Nutrition (3 cr)
NS 4500  Public Health Nutrition (3 cr)
NS 4600  Explorations in Global Health (3 cr)

Food Quality and Food Service Management

NS 4880 Applied Dietetics in Foodservice Systems (4 cr)

Human Health and Nutrition

NS 3030  Nutrition, Health and Vegetarian Diets (3 cr)
NS 3150  // PSYCH 3150  Obesity and the Regulation of Body Weight (3 cr)
NS 3420  Human Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory (2 cr)
NS 4200  Diet and the Microbiome (3 cr)
NS 4410  Nutrition and Disease (4 cr )
NS 4420  Implementation of Nutrition Care (3 cr; enrollment restricted – priority to Dietetics students)
NS 6140  Topics in Maternal and Child Nutrition (3 cr)

Nutritional Biochemistry

NS 4300  Proteins, Transcripts, and Metabolism: Big Data in Molecular Nutrition (3 cr)
NS 6310  Micronutrients: Function, Homeostasis and Assessment (2-4 cr)
NS 6320  Regulation of Macronutrient Metabolism (4 cr)

Psychological and Social Influences on Human Nutrition

NS 4250 Nutrition Communications and Counseling (3 cr)

Social Sciences

Social Sciences (6 credits)
This fulfills the college distribution social sciences requirement.

Choose one course in any two of the following four areas:

Anthropology
ANTHR 1400 The Comparison of Cultures (3 cr)

Economics
ECON 1110 Introductory Microeconomics (3 cr) *Counts for Human Ecology credit
ECON 1120 Introductory Macroeconomics (3 cr) *Does not count for Human Ecology credit

Psychology
HD 1150  Human Development: Infancy and Childhood (3 cr)
HD 1170  Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood (3 cr)
PSYCH 1101  Introduction to Psychology (3 cr)

Sociology
DSOC 1101 Introduction to Sociology (3 cr)
SOC 1101 Introduction to Sociology (3 cr)

Calculus/Advanced Math

Calculus/Advanced Math (3-4 credits)
This fulfills the college distribution quantitative and analytical courses requirement.

Choose one of the following Calculus/Advanced Math courses:
(a)   MATH 1105  Finite Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences (3 cr)
(b)   MATH 1106  Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences (3 cr)
(c)   MATH 1110  Calculus I (4 cr)
(d)    MATH 1120 Calculus II (4 cr)
(e)   A score of 4 or 5 on the AB or BC Calculus AP Exam¹
1 See below under Statistics.

Statistics

Statistics (3-4 credits)
This fulfills the college distribution quantitative and analytical course requirement.

Choose one of the following:
(a)   STSCI 2150  Introductory Statistics for Biology (4 cr) (recommended) OR
(b)   PAM 2100  Introduction to Statistics (4 cr) OR
(c)   AEM 2100  Introductory Statistics (4 cr) OR
(d)   BTRY 3010  Biological Statistics I (4 cr) OR
(e)   ILRST 2100 /STSCI 2100  Introductory Statistics (4 cr) OR
(f)   MATH 1710  Statistical Theory and Application in the Real World (4 cr) OR
(g)   PSYCH 2500  Statistics and Research Design (3-4 cr) OR
(h)   SOC 3010  Statistics for Sociological Research (4 cr)
(i)   A score of 4 or 5 on the Statistics AP Exam*
1 DNS students must take either Calculus/Advanced Math or Statistics at Cornell unless they have earned a score of 4 or 5 on the BC Calculus AP Exam. Students in this case may use AP credit for both Calculus/Advanced Math and Statistics.

Electives

Electives

Any courses that are not taken in areas above, count as Electives.

Students interested in pre-health tracks or graduate study in biological/medical/exercise sciences should take:
PHYS 1101 and PHYS 1102 General Physics (auto-tutorial) OR
PHYS 2207 and PHYS 2208 Fundamentals of Physics

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