Summer Courses
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HFN 510: Issues and Trends in Nutrition
Graduate 3 credits
HFNMZ, HFPMS, HFPZM or HFN 507
This online course will provide an overview of current and emerging issues in food and nutrition including topics that impact nutrition recommendations for patients. Course material will also include trends in health care organizations as it relates to food and nutrition service delivery. Students will explore how these trends may shape patient perceptions of favorable and unfavorable dietary choices, as well as food availability via market trends. Prerequisite: Admission to program codes HFNMZ, HFPMS or HFPZM or HFN 507
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 64875 01 Leah Holbrook Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA HSC Campus (Health Science Center) Open × -
HFN 541: Crit Care & Nutrition Support
Graduate 3 credits
Admission to Graduate Nutrition Program's Advanced Nutrition Therapy and Critical Care Concentration and HFN 516
This online course will explore the role and impact of medical nutrition therapy in the critical care setting and its influence on patient outcomes. This will include the assessment of specific patient-populations such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), burns, continuous veno-venous hemodialysis (CVVHD), sedated/intubated patients, and traumatic brain injuries (TBI). The impact of preoperative, perioperative, and postoperative feeding strategies will be discussed as well as potential pros and cons of immune enhancing supplements. Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Nutrition Program's Advanced Nutrition Therapy and Critical Care Concentration and HFN 516
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 64874 01 Mindy Freudenberg Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA HSC Campus (Health Science Center) Open × -
HFN 578: Appl of Nutrition Rsrch Litert
Graduate 3 credits
Prerequisites: Admission to Masters in Nutrition Program, HFN 570, and HFN 575
This online course will facilitate development of the critical thinking skills necessary to become efficient consumers of nutrition-related research presented in the scientific literature and popular media. Students will learn to interpret current nutrition research by performing effective literature searches for nutrition research articles, recognizing the strengths and limitations of the research methods, and evaluating the quality of nutrition information in both the scientific literature and popular media. This course will begin with an overview of the challenges facing health professionals when delivering nutrition education to the layperson. Challenges to be discussed include media misrepresentation, health illiteracy and a Prerequisites: Admission to Masters in Nutrition Program (HFNMZ) and HFN 575
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 2 64876 01 Sotiria Everett Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA HSC Campus (Health Science Center) Open × - Modify search