Spring 2010

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Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Seminar Series

Description:: This weekly Wednesday series highlights current scientific and policy research in the field of nutrition. Students and faculty are encouraged to attend and actively participate in discussion.
Day/Time:: Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location:: Jaharis Auditorium, Boston Campus

NUTR 101: Introductory Human Nutrition

Description:: This course meets the science requirement for undergraduate non-science majors. It is not acceptable for biology credit for biology majors. Approximately 40 percent of the time will be spent discussing the biochemistry and physiology of nutrition in terms that a student untrained in chemistry and biology will be able to understand; 20 percent of the time will be spent on the ways in which the nutritional status of individuals and populations are determined. Students will be instructed in how to evaluate the quality of their own diets. Other areas include the relationship of nutrition to health and domestic and international nutrition policies, nutrition and growth, pregnancy, obesity, cancer, diabetes and heart disease, food faddism, U.S. domestic nutrition, and problems of developing countries.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: Sophomore standing or consent.
Instructor:: Troy
Day/Time:: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 8:00-9:30 am
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0101-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 202: Scientific Principles of Human Nutrition and Food - Cancelled Spring 2010

Description:: This course presents the fundamentals of nutrition. The student will be expected to be familiar with the material covered in undergraduate level biology, chemistry and biochemistry prior to taking this course. The goals for this course are: 1). to identify the components of a healthful diet, from the basic groups of foods to each of the macronutrients and micronutrients, and their inter-relationships; 2) to understand the effects of harvesting, processing and storage of foods as they pertain to a healthful diet; 3) for each of the individual nutrients, to identify primary dietary forms, food sources, recommended dietary intake, biochemical role, mode of absorption, transport and excretion, existence of toxicity or deficiency for the nutrient; 4) to understand the scientific basis for current nutrition recommendations and the intended use for individual sets of recommendations and; 5) to understand issues affecting food safety. NUTR 201 cannot be substituted for NUTR 202. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 291SP.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1.5
Prerequisites:: Undergraduate level biology, chemistry and biochemistry
Course Coordinator:: Johnson
Day/Time:: Tuesdays, 10:15 - 12:15 pm and Thursdays, 10:15 - 12:30 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR-0202
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 205: Communicating Health Information to Diverse Audiences, Part A

Description:: The objective of this course is to learn to write articles and on the editing process; the other will focus on pragmatic issues such as choosing topics, judging sources, elements of successful writings, and how to "break in" to the popular press. Note: 10-week course. Enrollment limited to 12. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 201A.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 0.5
Prerequisites:: NUTR 220 (formerly NUTR 229), graduate standing or consent. Enrollment priority is given to Nutrition Communication program students.
Instructor:: Shuman
Day/Time:: Tuesdays, 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0205-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 208: Human Physiology

Description:: This course meets the physiology requirement for students in the following programs: Human Nutrition, Nutritional Epidemiology, Cell and Molecular Nutrition. This course will cover the functions of mammalian organisms as we understand them at various levels of organization - organ system, organ, cellular and subcellular levels. Our goal is to provide a working knowledge of the fundamental properties and regulation of these systems so that the student can understand and relate this material to that learned in other basic science courses with particular emphasis on those related to nutrition.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: Undergraduate level introductory biology and chemistry.
Instructor:: Leavis
Day/Time:: *First class meets Tuesday, Feb. 3rd; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:00-10:00 am (Feb - April)
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0208-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 210: Survey Research in Nutrition

Description:: A methods course focusing on field research in nutrition. Students will learn to identify policy-relevant issues, define hypotheses, and select and combine appropriate methods drawn from nutrition, epidemiology, anthropology, economics, psychology, sociology, education and political science. Students will also learn how to develop research designs, samples and analysis plans, as well as how to construct and pretest the types of instruments commonly used in nutrition research and evaluation. The course will cover interviewer training, quality control, site operations, and data base management.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: One semester of statistics or instructor's consent.
Instructor:: Rogers
Day/Time:: Fridays, 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0210-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 212: Agricultural Science and Policy I

Description:: First part of a two-semester sequence. May be taken independently by non-AFE students; both semesters required of AFE students. This course covers the major biological, chemical and physical components of agricultural systems. Each is discussed from the viewpoints of both the underlying natural processes and principles, and their significance for major agricultural, food safety, and environmental policy issues in the US today. In the first semester, the topics covered are soils, water, air and energy, all of which are highly relevant to global climate change, as well as resource conservation policies. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 241A.
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: Graduate standing or instructor consent.
Instructors:: Griffin and Peters
Day/Time:: Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10:00 - 11:30 am
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR213-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 214: Statistical Methods for Health Care Professionals

Description:: In this course students critically evaluate, compare, interpret, judge, summarize and explain statistical results published in research articles in health and nutrition journals that are influencing nutrition science, research, policy, and clinical practice. Students will also develop an intermediate level ability to analyzing research data with Stata statistical software.
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: College level course in Introductory statistics and enrollment in Dietetics program.
Instructors:: Houser
Day/Time:: Thursdays, 10:00 - 11:30 am
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR214-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 216: Management, Planning, and Control of Nutrition and Health Programs and Organizations

Description:: Key management concepts and principles for managing nutrition and health programs and organizations will be addressed to equip students to function as program directors and project managers). Case studies and readings will be used to convey a practical understanding of how to manage and coordinate business functions to achieve the goals and objectives of the organization. This course will deal with for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Topics will include business and project planning, management control systems, financial management, budgeting, performance measurement, pricing and marketing of services, operations, management, cost analysis, human resource management, and the development of management information systems. The course is designed to provide practical tools in areas we believe students need to acquire skills.This course was formerly listed as NUTR 225.
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: Graduate standing or instructor consent.
Instructor:: Hastings
Day/Time:: Mondays, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0216-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 217: Seminar on Program Monitoring and Evaluation

Description:: This seminar will provide an introduction to the principles and practice of program monitoring and evaluation, with an emphasis on nutrition and nutrition-related programs in developing countries. By reviewing relevant literature and utilizing case studies in the areas of nutrition, primary health, agriculture and other fields, students will garner basic literacy of the language and tools of evaluation. This seminar will focus both on the theory and practice of conducting program evaluation and will consist of round-table discussions, guest speakers, and applied exercises of critiquing, planning, and writing evaluations. In addition to the course content, the participatory nature of the seminar is important to the overall learning process. Although there will be speakers at several sessions, the course will largely be run by the seminar participants themselves who will shape the curriculum, design assignments, and be expected to bring forth their personal experiences, opinions, and questions to the subject matter at hand.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: Graduate standing or instructor consent.
Instructor:: Coates
Day/Time:: Wednesdays, 3:15 - 6:15 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0217-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 218: Communications Strategies in Health Promotion

Description:: A survey of communications strategies in health promotion. This course will provide students with the ability to decide when a health communication initiative is appropriate; to develop health communications programs based on appropriate theoretical foundations; and to select and plan evaluation strategies appropriate for the particular intervention. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 228.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: Graduate standing or instructor consent.
Instructor:: Goldberg
Day/Time:: Fridays, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0218-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 219: Fundamentals of Food Science - Not Offered Spring 2010

Description:: This course will provide students a broad overview of certain aspects of both the U.S. and worldwide food supply. This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of : 1) the basic groups of foods in the food supply and their nutrient profiles; 2) the effects of harvesting, processing and storage; and 3) the important issues affecting food safety.
Credit:: 0.5
Prerequisites:: NUTR 202 (formerly NUTR 291SP) or NUTR 210 (formerly NUTR 291FN).
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0219-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 221: The Global Food Business

Crosslisted as:: EIB N280 (Fletcher School).
Description:: The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the field of international food and agribusiness. Today, international trade in agricultural commodities and foods is a major segment of the world's business. This business continues to grow yearly, motivated by new and potential international trade agreements (GATT, NAFTA), expansion by both established and new multinational companies, and export policies by countries seeking new markets for their growing food and agricultural production. The focus of this course will be to develop in each student a conceptual knowledge of the analytical skills in administration, marketing, business strategy, research, governmental policies and technology that international food business requires today. The course also attempts to analyze the global food business from a transnational perspective, rather than any single nationalistic viewpoint of food and agribusiness. It is designed to meet the requirements of students aiming to enter the international food business world, as well as for students who in their professional careers (e.g., government, legal) will deal with this important sector of international business. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 245.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: Graduate standing or instructor consent.
Instructor:: Tillotson
Day/Time:: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:15 - 9:30 am
Location:: TBD

NUTR 222: Gender, Culture and Conflict in Humanitarian Complex Emergencies

Crosslisted as:: DHP D232 (Fletcher).
Description:: This course will examine humanitarian aid in conflict situations from a gender perspective and highlight the policy and program implications that this dimension presents. Topics covered will include the ways in which gender relations are affected by conflict; the relationship between gender and the militarization of societies and communities; violations of human rights and women's rights; women in peace building and conflict resolution; the gender dynamics of aid and post-conflict reconstruction. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 261.
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: Graduate standing or instructor consent.
Instructors:: Mazurana
Day/Time:: Mondays, 3:20 - 5:20 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0222-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 223: Seminar in Humanitarian Issues

Description:: Open for credit only to Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance (MAHA) students. This seminar will explore in depth key issues in humanitarian assistance, for example, humanitarian law, ethics, psycho-social interventions, the role of the military, program and agency management, and fund-raising. A hands-on course with an opportunity to discuss in depth much of the theory and academic literature of prerequisite courses. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 273.
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: NUTR 229 (formerly NUTR 221).
Instructors:: Jacobsen
Day/Time:: Fridays, 2:00-4:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0223-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 224: Community Food Planning and Programs

Description:: This course will cover (domestic) community food programs that focus on or operate at the community or regional level. Hundreds of such initiatives now promote local/regional agriculture and food chain businesses that process, market, and use local or regional food products. In tandem, public sector and NGO initiatives now involve programs and policies with a "community food" agenda. The content and focus will be on more complex initiatives such as farm-to-institution projects, retail store initiatives, and food policy councils. A major course objective is to provide practical skills and tools for design, strategic planning, and implementation of these programs, including assessments, research, policy components, and funding. We will also provide contextual analyses and critical perspectives of community-based strategies as alternative food systems models. To strengthen the course, there will be several visiting lecturers with significant expertise on a specific topic or program.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: None
Instructors:: Joseph
Day/Time:: Tuesdays, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR-0224
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 226: The Public Policy of Health Claims for Food

Description:: This course examines the United States food policies governing the use of diet and health information in commercial communications. In the mid-1980s, the food industry began, for the first time in modern history, to use health claims in food advertising and labeling. This proved to be a highly effective marketing method for the food industry. However, the industries use of health claims product promotion created public controversy, and policies – a comprehensive new labeling law as well as many new FDA, USDA and FTC regulations– governing food advertising and labeling that use nutritional and medical information. The object of this course is to review current food policies governing health claims and the regulatory regime controlling their use in commercial communications
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: Graduate standing or instructor consent.
Instructor:: Tillotson
Day/Time:: Fridays, 1:00-4:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0226-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 227: International Nutrition Programs

Description:: This intensive course provides presentations, readings, and exercises relating to the broad range of nutrition interventions utilized in international programs: growth monitoring and promotion, nutrition counseling and IEC, supplementary feedings and food-based income transfers, household food security and agricultural-based interventions, micronutrient activities, and breast-feeding. The course also covers malnutrition causality, nutrition and structural adjustment, social funds, economic and food aid, active learning capacity and the nutrition transition. Finally students become well versed in program design and appraisal techniques including dynamic models and program constraint assessments, and are responsible for major exercises relating to existing programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 204.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: Graduate standing or instructor consent.
Instructors:: Webb
Day/Time:: Mondays, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0227-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 230: International NGO's: Ethics and Management Practice

Crosslisted as:: DHP-P209 at the Fletcher School
Description:: The course first examines the role and relevance of the non-governmental sector with a view to understanding the concepts underpinning NGO management, accountability and role in society. The course will then focus on a number of key issues essential for the effective running of NGOs. The course will end with an exploration of Southern NGOs and their relationship with the North and the future of international NGOs. This course will introduce students to such essential skills such as strategic planning, advocacy, the use of the press, fundraising, budgets and reading financial statements. It will also explore key questions including the role NGOs play in society and in international development and how and whether they are different from other institutions in society. This course focuses on key conceptual questions that are essential to understanding NGOs and on practical skills and tools needed for managing them. The course first examines the role and relevance of the non-governmental sector with a view to understanding the concepts underpinning NGO management, accountability and role in society. The course will then focus on a number of key issues essential for the effective running of NGOs. The course will end with an exploration of Southern NGOs and their relationship with the North and the future of international NGOs. This course will introduce students to such essential skills such as strategic planning, advocacy, the use of the press, fundraising, budgets and reading financial statements. It will also explore key questions including the role NGOs play in society and in international development and how and whether they are different from other institutions in society. This course focuses on key conceptual questions that are essential to understanding NGOs and on practical skills and tools needed for managing them.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: Graduate standing or instructor consent.
Instructor:: Hammock
Day/Time:: Mondays, 5:30 - 8:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0230-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 235: Junior Clinical Rotations

Description:: Required of junior standing students enrolled in the Combined Dietetic Internship/Masters Degree program. Grading is Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. Formerly NUTR 880.
Day/Time:: Day/times to be arranged with instructor.
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0235-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 236: Practicum in Bioresearch Techniques

Description:: Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition students must enroll in one practicum in bioresearch techniques. Students who anticipate a career in basic nutritional sciences require extensive laboratory training. Practicums in bioresearch techniques, established as a single, 1.0 credit course, will provide students with an understanding of critical experimental evaluation as well as hands-on experience in essential techniques of modern biology. In the practicum, students will answer a specific biologic question through experimentation. Faculty in participating laboratories will be responsible for providing an overview of the biologic interest of the laboratory, overseeing the development of a specific, defined project, teaching the theory of specific techniques to be employed, and training the students in the application of these techniques. Students will be evaluated through a written report and oral presentation in a laboratory meeting-type setting. Formerly listed as NUTR 260A-D.
Credit:: 1.0
Course Coordinator:: Obin
Day/Time:: To Be Arranged by Instructor
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0236-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 238: Economics of Food Policy Analysis

Description:: Required for FPAN students. This course is currently under development. The goal of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of the economic foundations of food and nutrition policy analysis. It is a prerequisite for NUTR 303 and NUTR 304 and should be taken in the Srping of the student's first year.

Course Syllabus (pdf)

Credit:: 1.0
Instructor:: Rogers
Day/Time:: Thursdays, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0238-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 239: Emerging Technologies and Nutrition Communication

Description:: The course begins with an overview of the role of technology in nutrition communication through a grounding in core concepts and a survey of technology in the field of health and nutrition communication. It then provides an orientation to three specific uses of Internet-based communication technology (dissemination, collaboration, and knowledge) through hands-on opportunities that encourage students to use and evaluate specific tools and their appropriateness to various nutrition communication contexts. Throughout the course, students work on a group that utilizes one or more technologies covered.
Credit:: 1.0
Prerequisites:: None
Instructor:: Giguere
Day/Time:: Tuesdays, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0239-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 272: Physical Activity, Nutrition and Health

Description:: Inadequate physical activity and a sedentary lifestyle are thought to be important causes of many of the major diseases of developed societies, including coronary artery disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, and arthritis. There has been an explosion of information over the past two decades on the health benefits of exercise. In addition, exercise and nutrition are closely linked, with each modifying the effects of the other. Athletes, for example, may have markedly increased needs for some nutrients, but not others. Exercise has potent effects on the metabolism of protein, energy, fat, and some micronutrients. In addition, exercise is an important form of oxidative stress, and the ability of nutrients to alter the effect of exercise is not well understood. Exercise and nutrition together offer an extremely powerful intervention for a variety of problems, including the frailty of aging, the wasting of AIDS, and the obesity that underlies most cases of diabetes and atherosclerosis. This course is designed to give students an understanding of the fundamental interactions between exercise and nutrition, and to offer students an opportunity to examine the application of nutrition to exercise and vice versa. Each lecture will also discuss how these factors are important in disease prevention, and where applicable, treatment.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1.0
Prerequisites:: College biochemistry, college human physiology.
Instructors:: Nelson and Sacheck
Day/Time:: Tuesdays, 8:00 - 11:00 am
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0272-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 301: Nutrition in the Life Cycle

Description:: This course covers nutrition issues from preconception throughout life, with a particular emphasis on nutrition correlates of normal growth and development and on the consequences of under and over nutrition. It briefly considers the role of nutrition in the context of the normal physiologic changes that occur with aging.
Credit:: .5
Prerequisites:: NUTR 201
Course Coordinator:: Goldberg
Day/Time:: Tuesdays, 2:00 - 5:00 pm (held the first 7 weeks of the semester)
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0301-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 302: Daily Risks and Crisis Events - Cancelled Spring 2010

Description:: This course (requiring advance reading and extensive participation in discussion) serves as a bridge between classes on nutrition in a developmental context and those focused on relief in complex emergencies. Manifestations of household and national vulnerability differ in these contexts, but only by a matter of degrees. Risks of individual nutrition failure are related to risks of household food security, which in turn relate to risks inherent in the physical, economic, cultural and political environment that is the backdrop to household behavior. The conditions that determine food and nutritional stresses persist in countries undergoing economic transformation and political unrest, but also in those ill equipped to cope with the stresses of globalization, increasing poverty, and declining public sector responsibility. Much international work involves being able to assess the potential risks and returns of alternative development strategies in such diverse contexts. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 231.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: NUTR 304 (formerly NUTR 218) or instructor consent.
Instructor:: Webb
Day/Time:: Tuesdays, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0302-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 307: Regression Analysis for Nutrition Policy

Description:: Part two of a one-year, two-semester course sequence in statistics. This course is intended for students whose main focus is non-experimental or survey-based research. The course covers non-experimental research design, simple linear regression, multiple regression, analysis of variance, non-linear functional forms, heteroskedasticity, complex survey designs, and real-world statistical applications in nutrition science and policy. Students will make extensive use of Stata for Windows. NOTE: Students cannot receive credit for both NUTR 249 Regression Analysis for Nutrition Policy and its second semester counterpart NUTR 209B Statistical Methods in Nutrition Research II. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 249.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: NUTR 207 or 209 (formerly NUTR 209A)
Instructor:: Wilde
Day/Time:: Lectures: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:30 - 3:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0307-01
Call Number:: TBD
Lab Sections:: TBD

NUTR 308: Nutrition in Complex Emergencies

Crosslisted as:: DHP D237 (Fletcher School).
Description:: Required for students enrolled in the Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance Program. This course will examine the central role and importance of food and nutrition in complex emergencies. The implications of this for nutrition assessment, policy development, program design and implementation will be examined. This will provide an understanding of; the nutritional outcomes of emergencies (malnutrition, morbidity and mortality); and also the causes of malnutrition and mortality in emergencies (the process and dynamics of an emergency). The course will also develop a broader range of management skills needed in relation to humanitarian response initiatives. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 264.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: Graduate standing or instructor consent.
Instructor:: Sadler
Day/Time:: Wednesdays, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0308-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 309: Statistical Methods for Nutrition Research II

Description:: Part two of a one-year, two-semester course covering descriptive statistics, graphical displays, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, t test, chi-square test, nonparametric tests, multiple linear regression, multiple logistic regression, experimental design, multi-factor and multiple comparisons procedures. Students will make extensive use of SPSS for Windows. NOTE: Students cannot receive credit for both NUTR 209B Statistical Methods in Nutrition Research II and its second semester counterpart NUTR 249 Regression Analysis for Nutrition Policy. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 209B.
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: NUTR 209 (formerly NUTR 209A).
Instructor:: Dallal
Day/Time:: Mondays, 2:00 - 3:30 pm and Wednesdays, 1:15 - 2:45 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0309-01
Call Number:: TBD
Lab Sections:: Students must sign up for one of three lab sections, time/locations TBA.

NUTR 310: Qualitative Research Methods for Nutrition

Description:: Qualitative research allows researchers to address "how" and "why" questions and to document changes in complex processes and relationships over time. This year's course focuses on how the current financial crisis is affecting the every day lives of Bostonians and their communities. The students, teachers, and lecturer will collaborate to develop an interdisciplinary team approach to this inquiry. Given the diversity of backgrounds and professional interests, students are encouraged to contribute their respective experience and expertise in formulating the research exercises and to the overall project. The course is taught primarily from an anthropological perspective and specifically focuses on the practice of ethnography and developing critical theories based on grounded evidence and interpretation. From that perspective, students also learn specific qualitative techniques such as documentation, participant observation, interviewing, life history, and focus group interviews.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: One semester of statistics and either NUTR 204 (formerly NUTR 154) Introduction to Epidemiology or NUTR 210 Survey Research in Nutrition, or instructor consent.
Instructor:: Troy
Day/Time:: Mondays, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0310-01

NUTR 312: Nutrition and Chronic Disease

Description:: This course covers issues in modern nutrition, public health and chronic disease. We will focus on the major non-infectious diseases present in Western countries that are caused by modifiable lifestyle choices and the role that diet plays in maintenance of health and the risk of chronic diseases.
Credit:: .5
Prerequisites:: NUTR 201.
Instructor:: Truong
Day/Time:: Tuesdays, 2:00 - 5:00 pm (held last 7 weeks of semester)
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0312-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 314: Design of Epidemiologic Studies for Nutrition Research

Description:: This course examines epidemiological principles of study design for nutrition research. Focuses primarily on valid, efficient, and ethical methods for studying relationships between nutritional exposures and chronic disease. Includes written assignments and oral presentations requiring the application of design principles to specific research questions. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 262.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: NUTR 207 or 209 (formerly NUTR 209A) or equivalent, NUTR 204 (formerly NUTR 154) or equivalent, and familiarity with basic methods of dietary assessment.
Instructor:: Dunn
Day/Time:: Mondays, 8:30 - 11:30 am
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0314-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 316: Advanced Medical Nutrition Therapy

Description:: Nutritional biochemistry and physiology as related to selected pathophysiological conditions, with attention paid specifically to dietary assessment and various indices of nutritional status. Conditions with particular relevance to clinical nutrition are emphasized. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 250B.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1
Prerequisites:: Graduate standing or instructor consent.
Instructors:: Kane and Prelack
Day/Time:: Thursdays, 1:30 - 4:30 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0316-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 324: Humanitarian Studies in the Field

Description:: This course will offer a practical and in-depth analysis of the complex issues and skills needed to engage in humanitarian work in field settings. Through presentations offered by the faculty of the Humanitarian Studies Initiative and guest speakers who are experts in their topic areas, students will gain familiarity with the primary frameworks in the humanitarian field (human rights, livelihoods, Sphere standards, international humanitarian law) and will focus on practical issues that arise in the field, such as rapid public health assessments, field cluster sampling techniques, application of minimum standards for food security, and operational approaches to relations with the military in humanitarian settings.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1.0
Instructors:: Walker, Leaning
Day/Time:: TBD
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0324-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 325: Micronutrients Interventions, Programmes and Policies (MIPP)

Description:: This course will build on practical, up-to-date information on the functional role of several micronutrients across the lifecycle and emphasize the complex and challenging relationship of micronutrient nutrition to social development. Students will learn about, discuss and analyze several challenges of translating scientific knowledge about micronutrient nutrition into population level policies and interventions in the USA, but with added emphasis on developing countries. Iron, Iodine, Zinc, Vitamin A, Folic Acid are the primary focus but several other vitamins and minerals are covered as well.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1.0
Instructor:: Rosenberg
Day/Time:: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12;15 - 1:45 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0325-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 326: International Food and Agricultural Trade

Description:: Nutrition 326 will allow fourth-semester Friedman students to examine the impact of international food and agriculture trade on food security outcomes, rural livelihoods, food safety, value-chain organization, consumption and food-related health outcomes, the environment, etc. in a seminar style format. The semester will begin with an introduction to international trade theories and market models; international trade institutions and the multilateral and bilateral agreements that regulate food trade; and international agricultural commodity markets. The effects of border interventions, domestic support policies, and exchange rates on food and agricultural markets will be explored. The role of domestic and multilateral governance of trade-related food regulations (labeling, risk assessment measures, etc.) will also be discussed. Problem sets will familiarize students with tariff and non-tariff border interventions and their impacts, and the effects of exchange rates on agricultural prices, comparative advantage, and production. The semester will include a trade negotiation simulation exercise.
Credit:: 1.0
Instructor:: Salinger
Day/Time:: Wednesdays, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0326-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 335: Senior Clinical Rotations

Description:: Required of senior standing students enrolled in the Combined Dietetic Internship/Masters Degree program. Grading is Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. Formerly NUTR 880.
Day/Time:: Day/times to be arranged with instructor.
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0335-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 371: Nutritional Biochemistry and Physiology: Micronutrients

Description:: Required of all students in the Human Nutrition, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Cell and Molecular Nutrition programs; Nutrition 271A&B are generally taken in the second year of graduate study or after the student has completed the prerequisites. Second part of a two-semester course. Students will explore the fundamental roles of nutrients in biological systems. Particular emphasis will be placed on the function of nutrients as defined by their chemistry, interrelationships between nutrient function, mechanistic approaches in the analysis of nutrient-disease relationships, and recent advances in the basic sciences related to nutrition and nutrient function. Students in an accompanying discussion section will review recent journal articles related to the major nutrient classes. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 271B.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
Credit:: 1.5
Prerequisites:: Biochemistry 223 or equivalent, NUTR 208 Human Physiology or equivalent, NUTR 201 or 202 (formerly NUTR 202, NUTR 291 FN, NUTR 291SP), or equivalent.
Course Coordinator:: Yeum (Modules taught by Human Nutrition faculty)
Day/Time:: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Fridays, 9:00 - 11:00 am
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0371-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 399: Doctoral Candidacy Preparation

Description:: Students should register for this course while preparing for the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination in order to remain in active status. Full time equivalent – grading is Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 397.
Day/Time:: Day/times to be arranged with instructor.
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0399-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 403: Ph.D. Thesis Only

Description:: All doctoral students must register for NUTR403 every semester to remain in active and full time status (full time equivalent.) Grading is Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.
Day/Time:: Day/times to be arranged with instructor.
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0403-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 404: Food and Nutrition Policy Doctoral Research Seminar

Description:: This seminar is designed to offer doctoral students a forum for discussing issues, methodologies, and research findings at a higher plane of analysis. Will represent a venue for in-depth, cross-disciplinary exploration of challenging topics. Under the direction of one or more faculty members, students will be expected to facilitate topic discussions and guide each other's research, evaluate methods, and critique research findings, often in fields outside of nutrition. Students will be actively challenged to explore cutting-edge topics in innovative ways. The seminar offers students an opportunity to apply new methodologies or insights directly to their own work and return to the seminar at different stages of preparation for further review. In addition, students will develop more presentational skills, and learn the art of giving and receiving constructive criticism. Grading is Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. This course was formerly listed as NUTR 292.
NOTE: FPAN PH.D. REQUIREMENT. Food Policy and Applied Nutrition doctoral candidates are required to fulfill at least two semesters during the period of their doctoral program; participation by FPAN doctoral students beyond the requirement two is strongly encouraged. Strongly recommended for doctoral students in the (former) World Hunger, US Food and Nutrition Issues programs and AFE program. Other doctoral students are welcome.
Prerequisites:: The seminar is open to doctoral program students or Masters-level students already admitted to the doctoral program. Other Masters students may be considered only with instructor's consent.
Seminar Coordinator:: Rosenberg
Day/Time:: Thursdays, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location:: TBD
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0404-01
Call Number:: TBD

NUTR 501: Research Practicum

Description:: Required of Post-Doctoral and Training Grant Fellows. Grading is Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.
Various:: Faculty
Day/Time:: Day/times to be arranged with instructor.
Enrollment Number:: NUTR0501-01
Call Number:: TBD