Courses numbered 500–899 for graduate students. Courses numbered 500 are typically offered to post-baccalaureate degree and master degree students and courses numbered 600 are for more advanced master degree courses. Those numbered 700 are typically offered to post-master degree and doctoral students. Courses offered at the 800 level are for doctoral level work.
DNP Seminar II
This course provides the opportunity to synthesize and apply the knowledge from the ten AACN Essentials domains and competencies in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Project and in preparation for progression to the…
DNP Clincial Practicum
Students complete an individually designed practicum based on their professional development plan and their self-assessment of the AACN Essentials Competencies. This clinical experience is also related to their role,…
DNP Clincial Practicum CRNA
A clinical practicum experience designed to enhance skill development through simulated experiences and didactic content. An additional emphasis is placed on demonstrating AACN Essentials competencies. May be repeated…
DNP Essentials Clinical Practicum
Students complete an individually designed practicum based on fulfilling the AACN Essentials Competencies through elective clinical experience regarding health policy, quality and safety outcomes, informatics,…
DNP Leadership Immersion Practicum
A practicum experience in the final semester of the program, grounded in a clinical or leadership setting, designed to provide the student an opportunity to refine leadership skills through an intensive experience.
DNP Project/Seminar
The course focuses on scholarship for nursing practice as the student completes the final stages of the DNP Project, with the emphasis on synthesizing and applying knowledge gained in the Project work, with a goal of…
Foundations in Dietetic Practice
This course is designed to build a solid foundation in dietetic practice. The course will cover the scope of practice of dietitians, healthcare ethics, advocacy in the field of dietetics, the Nutrition Care Process,…
The goal of this course is to present a systems approach to obesity prevention - ie understanding the complex task of trying to change the way people eat, move, and live, and sustaining those changes over time.…
Evidence Based Nutrition Practice
Exploration of the processes used by the Cochrane Library and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Evidence Analysis Library to analyze scientific evidence to improve nutrition practice. Students will develop a unique…
Sports Nutrition
Apply fundamental nutrition concepts to understand how diet and exercise intersect with health and performance. For the athlete to maximize performance and for the general consumer interested in overall fitness, health,…
Nutrition and Inflammation
Discuss current research unfolding in the field of chronic inflammation, how this inflammation is related to a variety of disease states and the impact nutrition can have on improving the inflammatory state.
Nutrition and Metabolsm
An in-depth examination of the biochemical and physiological functions of nutrients and their relationships to health and disease. The digestion, absorption, and transport of nutrients are discussed.
Study of the components of the Mediterranean diet and how this diet is able to reduce the risk of chronic diseases (obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer). Study of the role of nutrition and the…
Advanced Nutrition Counseling
This is an advanced course that emphasizes counseling as a supportive process, characterized by a collaborative counselor-patient relationship that involves behavior and attitudinal change. It will focus on the…
Special Topics
A course, on a special topic in the discipline at the post-baccalaureate or master degree level, offered on the basis of need, interest, or time lines. May be repeated for credit. See registrars office current class…
Nutrigenomics
The focus of this class is the application of Nutrigenomics as it relates to the prevention or intervention of disease by providing or restricting the proper nutrients and food compounds to maintain homeostasis in the…
Principles of marketing, financial management, and human resource management applied to foodservice operations. Restricted to students in the MSCMD program.
Advanced Sports Nutrition
This course will integrate the sciences of exercise physiology and nutrition and discuss its application in enhancing athletic performance and the prevention and management of chronic diseases including obesity,…
Health Assessment Techniques
This course assists the student in collection of appropriate subjective and objective data associated with obtaining a health and diet history. This course provides an introduction to physical and diagnostic assessment…
Foundations for Dietetic Interns
This course assists the student in collecting appropriate subjective and objective data associated with obtaining a health and diet history. This course provides an introduction to physical and diagnostic assessment of…
Advanced Health Assessment Analysis
This course covers advanced nutrition and health assessment. Students will learn and apply various methods for assessing dietary intake and advanced anthropometry and physical examination. In addition, this course will…
Nutrition principles applied to human development in various stages of the life cycle: maternal and infant, childhood, adolescent, adult and elderly. Introduction to nutrition counseling.
Medical Nutrtion Therapy
Study of various acute and chronic disease processes in relationship to the most current principles of nutrition management.
Cardiovascular health and disease, weight control and eating disorders, and diabetes. Restricted to students in the MSCMD program.
Medical Nutrition Therapy II
Study of acute chronic disease processes in relationship to the most current principles of the nutrition care process with attention to surgery and critical care, renal, transplant and parenteral and enteral conditions.…