Nutritional Sciences Minor

The nutritional sciences minor enhances a student’s major with a focus on nutrients and human nutrition issues. The study of nutrients includes knowledge about their sources, metabolism, and relationship to health. Nutritional status impacts medicine, health care policy and promotion, global relationships, issues in anthropology and sociology, exercise science, food systems, hospitality, and behavioral health.

Notes about this minor:

• This minor is closed to students majoring in nutritional sciences.
• Posting of the minor on the student's academic transcript requires a minimum GPA of 2.0 in the minor.
• Notations may appear in the curriculum chart below outlining pre-requisites, co-requisites, and other curriculum requirements (see footnotes).
• At least nine semester credit hours of the minor must consist of specific courses not required by the student’s degree program.

The plan code for Nutritional Sciences Minor is NUTRSC-MN.