Prerequisites for NUTR Courses

Course Number Course Name Professor Prerequisite
NUTR 0202 Principles of Nutrition Science Diane McKay Students are required to have taken a one semester college-level course in either human biology, chemistry, or physiology (preferred).
NUTR 0218 Communications Strategies in Nutrition and Health Promotion Nutrition Ana G. Maafs Rodríguez, May May Leung NUTR 0211: Theories of Behavior Change and Their Application in Nutrition and Public Health Interventions or NUTB 0211: Theories of Behavior Change and graduate standing or instructor consent.
NUTR 0228 Community and Public Health Nutrition Virginia Rall Chomitz NUTR 0202 or equivalent
NUTR 0233 Agricultural Science and Policy I Timothy Griffin NUTR 0215: Fundamentals of U.S. Agriculture, and graduate standing or instructor consent.
NUTR 0245 Scientific Basis of Nutrition: Micronutritent Edward Saltzman Undergraduate chemistry or biology, or by instructor permission, and graduate standing or instructor consent.
NUTR 0246 Scientific Basis of Nutrition: Macronutrients Edward Saltzman Undergraduate-level biology or chemistry, or by instructor consent.
NUTR 0248 Precision Nutrition Jiantao Ma NUTR 0202: Principles of Nutrition Science or equivalent and graduate-level or instructor permission.
NUTR 0253 Cellular Agriculture and Biofabricated Foods Matt McNulty Background in cell biology or biomedical engineering, or instructor permission
NUTR 0254 Cellular Agriculture & Cultured Meat Lab Jordan Jones NUTR 0253/BME 0173: Cellular Agriculture and Biofabricated Foods or instructor permission.
NUTR 0272 Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Health Jason Aziz NUTR 202 or NUTR 245 and NUTR 0246 or equivalent is required and undergraduate-level physiology is recommended, unless exemption approved by instructor, and graduate standing or instructor consent.
NUTR 0273 Social Psychology of Eating Behavior Keri Carvalho Recommended: NUTR 0211: Theories of Behavior Change and Their Application in Nutrition and Public Health Interventions or NUTB 0211: Theories of Behavior Change, and graduate standing or instructor consent.
NUTR 0284 Food Law and Regulation Nicole Negowetti NUTR 0203: Fundamentals of Nutrition Policy & Programming: How Science & Practice Interact (or NUTB 0206) OR NUTR 0215: Fundamentals of U.S. Agriculture and graduate standing or instructor consent.
NUTR 0301 Nutrition in the Life Cycle Erin Hennessy NUTR 0202: Principles of Nutrition Science or NUTR 0245 AND NUTR 0246 or equivalent and graduate standing or instructor consent.
NUTR 0303 Determinants of U.S. Food Policy Parke E. Wilde NUTR 0238: Economics of Food Policy Analysis and NUTR 0207: Statistical Methods for Nutrition Science and Policy/NUTR 0307: Regression Analysis for Nutrition Policy or equivalent or instructor consent.
NUTR 0304 Global Food and Nutrition Policy Jennifer Coates Graduate standing, NUTR 0203: Fundamentals of Public Policy and NUTR 0238: Economics of Food Policy Analysis, or instructor consent. Important: Prerequisites may not be taken concurrently with NUTR 0304.
NUTR 0305 Nutritional Epidemiology Fang Fang Zhang NUTR 0202: Principles of Nutrition Science and NUTR 0204/PH 0201: Principles of Epidemiology and NUTR 0206: Biostatistics I/PH 0205: Principles of Biostatistics. Prerequisites may not be taken concurrently with NUTR 0305.
NUTR 0306 Communicating Health Information to Diverse Audiences Elena Kalodner-Martin NUTR 0220 or instructor consent. Important: Prerequisite may not be taken concurrently with NUTR 0306.
NUTR 0307 Regression Analysis for Nutrition Policy Parke E. Wilde NUTR 0207 or NUTR 0206 and graduate standing or instructor consent
NUTR 0309 Biostatistics II Mei-Chun Chung Biostatistics I (NUTR 0206) or Statistical Methods for Nutrition Science and Policy (NUTR 0207) or equivalent, and graduate standing or instructor consent. Ability to conduct exploratory data analysis using R. Students who have not taken Principles of Epidemiology (NUTR 0204) or an equivalent course are strongly encouraged to take Principles of Epidemiology (NUTR 0204) concurrently with NUTR 0309.
NUTR 0315 Applied Nutritional Biochemistry Alice H Lichtenstein NUTR 0202 or equivalent, and one undergraduate level biochemistry course taken within the past five years, or instructor consent.
NUTR 0319 Intermediate Epidemiology Fang Fang Zhang NUTR 204, NUTR 206 or equivalents and NUTR 309 or equivalents, or concurrently taking NUTR 309 or equivalents, or instructor consent. ""NUTR 204, NUTR 206 or equivalents and NUTR 309 or equivalents, or concurrently taking NUTR 309 or equivalents, or instructor consent.
NUTR 0330 Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Ellen Messer Some social science background and graduate standing or instructor consent.
NUTR 0331 Environmental Life Cycle Assessment Nicole Tichenor Blackstone Prior experience managing and analyzing quantitative data in Microsoft Excel (or equivalent) is highly recommended. Please speak with the instructor if you are uncertain about your preparedness for the course.
NUTR 0333 Agricultural Science and Policy II Timothy Griffin NUTR 0215: Fundamentals of U.S. Agriculture AND NUTR 0233: Agricultural Science and Policy I or instructor consent.
NUTR 0341 Environmental Economics of Food and Agriculture Sean B Cash NUTR 0238: Economics for Food and Nutrition Policy or a similar course in microeconomic principles or consent of instructor.
NUTR 0342 Food Systems Modeling and Analysis Alexandra M. Thorn NUTR 0231: Fundamentals of GIS or an equivalent course with instructor’s consent and graduate standing or instructor consent.
NUTR 0370 Nutritional Biochemistry and Physiology: Macronutrients Stefania Lamon-Fava Students are expected to be familiar with the material covered in NUTR 0202, as well as the biochemistry course offered at Tufts.
NUTR 0374 Advanced Clinical Nutrition Practice in Kidney Disease Haewook Han NUTR 0315: Applied Nutritional Biochemistry or equivalent and NUTR 0316: Advanced Medical Nutrition Therapy or equivalent, and graduate standing or instructor consent.
NUTR 0375 Applied Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics in Nutrition Research Jiantao Ma NUTR 0204 or PH 0201: Principles of Epidemiology and NUTR 0206: Biostatistics 1 or PH 0205: Principles of Biostatistics, and NUTR 0309: Biostatistics II and graduate standing or instructor consent.
NUTR 0394 Advanced Data Analysis Elena N Naumova, Ryan B. Simpson Students should have basic working knowledge of statistical methods in environmental and/or nutrition research and epidemiology. Recommended courses that cover those topics include: Biostatistics I and II (NUTR 0206/0309) or Statistical Methods in Nutrition Research and Regression Analysis for Nutrition Policy (NUTR 0207/NUTR 0307) or equivalent. Ability to analyze data by use of R is preferable, but students may utilize other statistical programs as long as those programs are sufficient for the analysis that is proposed.

Prerequisites for NUTC Courses

Course Number Course Name Professor Prerequisite
NUTC 0202 Principles of Nutrition Science Diane McKay Students are required to have taken a one semester college-level course in either human biology, chemistry, or physiology (preferred).
NUTC 0230 Interpreting Nutrition Evidence Adela Bruby NUTC 0200: Foundations of Nutrition Science or NUTC 0202: Principles of Nutrition Science, or a prior course in general nutrition.
NUTC 0269 Nutrition, Health, and Disease I: Pregnancy to Adolescence Kathrina Prelack, Kelly Kane NUTC 202: Principles of Nutrition Science, or an equivalent course.

Prerequisites for NUTB Courses

Course Number Course Name Professor Prerequisite
NUTB 0204 Epidemiology for Nutrition Professionals Gitanjali M. Singh, Silvina Furlong Choumenkovitch Prior completion of NUTB 0250: Statistical Methods for Health Professionals I or equivalent or undergraduate Biostatistics.
NUTB 0205 Nutritional Biochemistry with Community/Clinical Applications: Macronutrients Lynne Ausman Biochemistry
NUTB 0227 Global Nutrition Programs Sujata Dixit-Joshi One semester of general nutrition (prerequisite for MNSP admits) AND also NUTB 206 (or NUTR 0203), or MNSP program director approval.
NUTB 0243 Nutrition, Brain and Behavior Grace E. Giles General nutrition and a physiology/mammalian biology class.
NUTB 0305 Nutritional Biochemistry with Community/Clinical Applications: Micronutrients Lynne Ausman General chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, physiology (mammalian biology), and nutrition.
NUTB 0350 Statistical Methods for Health Professionals II David Joseph Tybor NUTB 250: Statistical Methods for Health Professionals I or equivalent.