Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe various career paths within the field of nutrition
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explain the educational and professional requirements for different nutrition-related careers
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Discuss nutrition science literature
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify professional organizations, resources, and networking opportunities within the field of nutrition
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Locate resources available to students pursuing a degree in Nutritional Sciences at the UW – Madison
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss the development of nutritional sciences knowledge and critically assess research findings.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe the scientific method as it applies to nutritional sciences and analyze research methods in the field.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Evaluate scientific research reports and apply findings to personal dietary choices, considering equity and inclusion in accessing and acquiring food.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Investigate changes in human eating patterns over time and their impact on health, sustainability, diversity, and cultural traditions.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Apply tools for assessing balanced eating patterns to personal food choices, specific populations or case studies while considering traditional and cultural dietary practices.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Explain the mechanisms of digestive physiology and how they pertain to nutrient absorption and the generation and utilization of energy.
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of basic nutritional concepts, including macronutrients, micronutrients, energy, and their sources, as well as their effects on health, while emphasizing diversity and an “all foods fit” approach.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify career options available to individuals with a degree in nutrition and dietetics.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Summarize the requirements and skills for becoming a Registered Dietitian.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe individual skills, strengths, knowledge, and experience relevant to career goals.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Discuss the importance and expectations of a professional in the workplace.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Evaluate effective professional oral and written communication pertaining to the field of dietetics.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Define global health and identify major global health trends and metrics
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Recognize the “determinants of health” that contribute to health disparities/inequities
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Examine global health through the lens of agriculture, food, and nutrition
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Describe the role of ecology and the changing environment in global health
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Explain the importance of collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches in global health
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Discuss a variety of global health careers and areas of specialty through guest speakers and connections with their area of interest
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop critical, analytical and independent thinking skills through a scientific research project
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply the scientific method and engage in constructive problem solving in a scientific research project
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Demonstrate application of research skills and methodologies through a research project
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Effectively communicate scientific findings in an oral and/or written format  
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate a clear research question or problem and formulate a hypothesis
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify appropriate research methodologies and collect sound scientific data
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply critical thinking skills to interpret laboratory data and apply problem solving skills to constructively address research setbacks
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Practice research ethics and responsible conduct in research
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Communicate scientific ideas and results verbally and in written form effectively
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recall and summarize the cellular, tissue, and whole-body metabolism and function of nutrients
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify key elements of digestive anatomy that enable digestion and absorption of consumed nutrients
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Explain the physiological processes required for assimilation of consumed macro- and micro-nutrients
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Compare the similarities and differences in nutritional and metabolic strategies across species
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Evaluate the interactions between nutrients, animals, environment, physiological status, and functions and integrate these interactions to understand whole-animal nutrition
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Define and apply major principles and concepts of nutritional sciences.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Compare and contrast common approaches used in biomedical research.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Demonstrate knowledge of essential nutrients on their absorption, metabolism, functions/mechanisms of actions, and physiological manifestations of nutritional status.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Describe key biochemical and physiological pathways that integrate the metabolism of energy-yielding nutrients.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Demonstrate quantitative literacy relevant to nutritional sciences and dietetics.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate a basic understanding of the complex links between nutrition and malnutrition.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Learn and apply the economic tools of supply and demand to solving/analyzing issues including income and population growth, income and population policies, and agricultural supply topics.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Synthesize knowledge about the economics and nutritional aspects of world hunger to better understand solutions.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Communicate effectively through written reports and online discussions.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of addressing issues of population growth, hunger and poverty.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of food, hunger and malnutrition. Identify potential tradeoffs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe principles of epidemiology and its tools and methods
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Calculate and interpret basic epidemiological measures
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Understand major exposures, related health outcomes and the burden of disease
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify types of epidemiological studies and assess strengths and weaknesses of different study designs
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Interpret epidemiological evidence and identify threats to validity of epidemiology studies
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Connect epidemiology with its use in public and global health
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Explore how epidemiology is related to their field of interest or career path
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply concepts learned in coursework to authentic professional situations
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Demonstrate professional skills appropriate for the industry
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify and reflect on how concepts learned in coursework apply to specific work settings and situations
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Collaborate and communicate effectively with diverse colleagues and local partners.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Respectfully engage with different cultures or populations.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Articulate the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to global health and/or sustainable development.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate knowledge on a specific global health issue, community, and location.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Utilize nutrient requirements and dietary standards in dietary assessment and planning
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe the physiological basis of nutritional requirements throughout the life cycle
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe eating patterns, nutritional problems, and their relationships to health conditions throughout the life cycle
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Apply appropriate nutrient and food recommendations to individuals based on the stage of the life cycle
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Explain the delivery of nutrition care in community programs
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use database search techniques to identify research articles
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe requirements of rigorous and ethical research and publication
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Critically evaluate components of nutritional science research publications
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Prepare and submit an abstract for oral research presentations
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Prepare and present oral research presentations
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand nutrient metabolism in normal and disease states
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Integrate the regulation of metabolism of nutrients under normal and disease state conditions.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Understand the biochemical and molecular functions of nutrients we consume
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Apply how nutrients affect pathogenesis and health
Audience: Graduate

5. Think critically about nutrient claims and fads using your knowledge of nutritional biochemistry.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Integrate current research in the area of metabolism and micronutrient function into existing knowledge and formulate new hypotheses to guide future research
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify how nutritional and hydration demands vary by physical activity frequency, intensity, type, and time
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Outline dietary assessment techniques and common dietary strategies for both the healthy population and populations with additional dietary needs
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply the potential benefits of nutrient timing strategies to optimize performance and to promote tissue growth, recovery, and repair
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Synthesize and discuss nutrition research related physical activity and health
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Evaluate the safety and efficacy of common nutritional strategies, supplements, and ergogenic aids
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss the impact of health care policy and different health care delivery systems on food and nutrition services.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Demonstrate cultural humility, an awareness of personal bias, social inequities, health disparities and discrimination.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe contributing factors to health equity in nutrition and dietetics including structural bias, social inequities, health disparities and discrimination.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Develop an education session or program/educational strategy for a target population.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Demonstrate counseling and education methods to facilitate behavior change and enhance wellness for diverse individuals and groups.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss what sports nutrition is in the field of nutrition and dietetics.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Understand nutrient requirements during the various types of exercise and sport, along with rationale for those requirements.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Develop the ability to communicate information to athletes/active individuals or groups.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Develop and apply counseling skills when communicating nutrition with athletes/active individuals to promote behavior change.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Apply learned concepts to actual athletic situations and varied conditions and special populations.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically evaluate, and accurately describe findings from primary research publications
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Analyze how genetic and cell cycle perturbations contribute to cancer progression
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Identify how genetic and environmental factors impact altered cellular metabolism in cancer
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Describe biochemical mechanisms that contribute to cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Explain biochemical techniques, engineering strategies, and state-of-the-art technologies used in biomedical research
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Collaborate with peers in a small group
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Apply knowledge of biochemical principles and biotechnology to solve research and disease treatment related problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Execute written critical evaluation of primary research literature related to the molecular basis of human diseases and advances in biotechnology.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically evaluate current primary research literature in nutrition and metabolism
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify the limitations of population-based nutrition recommendations and the challenges facing development of biomarkers of individual status
Audience: Graduate

3. Distinguish the multitude of factors that create different nutritional needs among individuals and their metabolic heterogeneity
Audience: Graduate

4. Analyze how nutritional guidance is communicated to the public now and predict how it will be communicated in the future
Audience: Graduate

5. Explain state-of-the-art approaches to nutrition research and devise experiments, in the form of specific aims, for future research
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe regulatory mechanisms at the organ, cellular and biochemical level controlling intermediary metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify regulatory points in metabolic pathways and explain how they may change with metabolic state
Audience: Graduate

3. Detail the changes and mechanisms underlying such changes in protein, carbohydrate and fat metabolism in changing physiological state and also in health vs disease state
Audience: Graduate

4. Evaluate modern experimental approaches for studying metabolism
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop an understanding of nutrient requirements, ingredients used to meet requirements, and the mathematical steps involved in diet formulation, with emphasis on research animals.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Develop skills required to formulate and prepare research diets
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Develop an appreciation of nutrient requirements and the nutrient content of foods in development of healthy human diets.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize aspects of professional practice as a registered dietitian nutritionist
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Demonstrate understanding of the pathophysiology, as it relates to nutrition, for selected disease states/conditions
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe the medical nutrition therapy for selected disease states/conditions
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Translate nutrient recommendations into food recommendations
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Utilize the nutrition care process when providing medical nutrition therapy
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize aspects of professional practice as a registered dietitian nutritionist
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Demonstrate understanding of the pathophysiology, as it relates to nutrition, for selected disease states/conditions
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe the medical nutrition therapy for selected disease states/conditions
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Translate nutrient recommendations into food recommendations
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Utilize the nutrition care process when providing medical nutrition therapy
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Solve clinical case problems and case studies as part of a team using evidenced-based practice
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Summarize clinical cases for medical record using established documentation methods
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use current information technologies to locate and apply evidence-based guidelines and protocols (KRDN 1.2)
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate effective and professional oral and written communication and documentation (KRDN 2.1)
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Describe the regulation system related to billing and coding, what services are reimbursed by third party payers and how reimbursement may be obtained (KRDN 4.3)
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Solve clinical case problems and case studies as part of a team using evidenced-based practice
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Summarize clinical cases for medical record using established documentation methods
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Develop an educational session or program/educational strategy for a target population (KRDN 3.2)
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate counseling and education methods to facilitate behavior change for and enhance wellness for diverse individuals and groups (KRDN 3.3)
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Analyze data for assessment and evaluate data to be used in decision-making for continuous quality improvement (KRDN 4.6)
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the mechanisms by which tissues maintain metabolic flexibility.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Differentiate between how lipid metabolism regulates carbohydrate metabolism and vice versa.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe the regulation of lipogenesis.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Discuss how hormone secreting endocrine cells in the pancreas sense nutrients to regulate blood glucose.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Explain the importance of intracellular lipid cycling for body temperature regulation.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Discuss the manner in which mitochondrial metabolism is assessed.
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Examine hormonal regulation of circadian rhythms.
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Describe the basis for thermogenesis.
Audience: Undergraduate

9. Explain the pathways leading to inflammation.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate how the physiologic changes of aging impact nutrition, distinguishing between natural physiologic changes of aging and those occurring from disease.
Audience: Graduate

2. List characteristics representative of the aging population.
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe how dietary recommendations for older adults differ from younger adults.
Audience: Graduate

4. Identify physiologic changes of aging that impact exercise capacity and describe the benefits of exercise for older adults.
Audience: Graduate

5. Examine, investigate, and summarize the essential components of a nutritional assessment for an older adult, including anthropometric, biochemical, clinical, and dietary factors.
Audience: Graduate

6. Describe the nutritional impact of diseases and conditions common in older adults.
Audience: Graduate

7. Explain the significance of nutrition in prevention and management of diseases frequently impacting older adults.
Audience: Graduate

8. Implement appropriate dietary and lifestyle interventions for the prevention of disease and conditions common among older adults.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply professionalism and related topics to career development.
Audience: Graduate

2. Enhance critical thinking and decision-making skills.
Audience: Graduate

3. Apply leadership and management theories, especially useful for managing a professional staff.
Audience: Graduate

4. Develop a business plan for an area of advanced practice, including a logic model, marketing plan, implementation plan, budgeting system, and outcomes measurement.
Audience: Graduate

5. Apply a framework to assess, develop, implement and evaluate products, programs and services.
Audience: Graduate

6. Demonstrate leadership skills to guide practice
Audience: Graduate

7. Apply principles of organization management
Audience: Graduate

8. Apply project management principles to achieve project goals and objectives.
Audience: Graduate

9. Lead quality and performance improvement activities to measure, evaluate and improve a program’s services, products and initiatives.
Audience: Graduate

10. Develop and lead implementation of risk management strategies and programs.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss current regulation of bioactive food components and dietary supplements
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Assess quality, purity and identity of dietary supplements
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Explain basic principles of functional nutrition and how bioactive food components and dietary supplements relate
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Utilize appropriate resources to obtain current information on bioactive food components and dietary supplements
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Critically evaluate the research to support or refute the use of selected bioactive food components and dietary supplements
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Summarize current knowledge on popular bioactive food components and dietary supplements used in various health conditions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Apply knowledge of bioactive food components and dietary supplements to working with patients/clients
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Apply an understanding of environmental, molecular factors (e.g. genes, proteins, metabolites) and food in the development and management of disease (ACEND Competency [1.1])
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

9. Apply an understanding of anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry (ACEND Competency [1.2])
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

10. Integrate knowledge of chemistry and food science as it pertains to food and nutrition product development and when making modifications to food (ACEND Competency [1.4])
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

11. Apply knowledge of pathophysiology and nutritional biochemistry to physiology, health and disease (ACEND Competency [1.5])
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

12. Apply knowledge of social, psychological and environmental aspects of eating and food (ACEND Competency [1.6])
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

13. Integrate the principles of cultural competence within own practice and when directing services (ACEND Competency [1.7])
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

14. Apply knowledge of pharmacology to recommend, prescribe and administer medical nutrition therapy (ACEND Competency [1.8])
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

15. Apply an understanding of the impact of complementary and integrative nutrition on drugs, disease, health and wellness (ACEND Competency [1.9])
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

16. Utilize the nutrition care process with individuals, groups or populations in a variety of practice settings (ACEND Competency [2.3])
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

17. Prescribe, recommend and administer nutrition-related pharmacotherapy (ACEND Competency [2.5])
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

18. Incorporates critical thinking skills in practice (ACEND Competency [6.1])
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

19. Apply current research and evidence-informed practice to services (ACEND Competency [6.3])
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

20. Assume professional responsibilities to provide safe, ethical and effective nutrition services (ACEND Competency [7.1])
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

21. Use effective communication, collaboration and advocacy skills (ACEND Competency [7.2])
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

22. Facilitate a Journal Club which includes presentation and critique of a relevant original research article, as well as discussion questions for group members
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Review and analyze scientific literature.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify and use appropriate research methodologies to address a research question.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Begin structuring and writing a thesis based on original research.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Effectively communicate scientific findings in an oral and/or written format.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Review and analyze scientific literature.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify and use appropriate research methodologies to address a research question.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Write a thesis based on original research.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Effectively communicate scientific findings in an oral and/or written format.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Review and analyze scientific literature.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify and use appropriate research methodologies to address a research question.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Begin structuring and writing a thesis based on original research.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Effectively communicate scientific findings in an oral and/or written format.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Review and analyze scientific literature.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify and use appropriate research methodologies to address a research question.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Write a thesis based on original research
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Effectively communicate scientific findings in an oral and/or written format.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate a clear research question or problem and formulate a hypothesis.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify appropriate research methodologies and collect sound scientific data.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply critical thinking skills to interpret laboratory data and apply problem solving skills to constructively address research setbacks.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Practice research ethics and responsible conduct in research.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Communicate scientific ideas and results verbally and in written form effectively
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate the importance of the interaction between nutrition and the human gastrointestinal tract.
Audience: Graduate

2. Examine, investigate, and summarize the role, current trends and research of the gut microbiome, functional medicine, popular/fad diets and efficacy for treatment of common GI disorders and diseases.
Audience: Graduate

3. Apply the pathophysiology of GI disorders/diseases, deconstruct differential diagnosis’, describe current medical management and dietary requirements of an individual-and translate this into appropriate medical nutritional therapy.
Audience: Graduate

4. Reflect on external and internal environment forces that can impact your nutritional recommendations to an individual or family, assess the effectiveness of recommendations, and be able to modify or adjust accordingly.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Construct and deliver more effective presentations on their research to their peers and other researchers in their general field
Audience: Graduate

2. Evaluate and provide constructive feedback and criticism of their peers' seminar presentations
Audience: Graduate

3. Interact constructively with peers and other researchers in the field
Audience: Graduate

4. Relate personal research interests to topics in the larger field of Nutritional Sciences
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the components of an NIH grant and the content expected within each section during the review process.
Audience: Graduate

2. Succinctly analyze the current literature on a significant topic and identify gaps in knowledge that are worthy of further investigation.
Audience: Graduate

3. Generate overall objectives, hypotheses, and specific aims for projects that fill knowledge gaps.
Audience: Graduate

4. Construct a compelling research plan that describes the significance of completing a project’s objectives, the methods to be used in the research, and potential problems and alternative strategies.
Audience: Graduate

5. Give and receive critical constructive feedback and revise research ideas in response.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Expand and adapt foundational knowledge of macronutrient, micronutrient and fluid needs for exercise and activity along with rationale for requirements.
Audience: Graduate

2. Evaluate sports nutrition research on ergogenic aids/supplementation and translate research to practice.
Audience: Graduate

3. Integrate current knowledge of sports nutrition into individual’s goals for performance.
Audience: Graduate

4. Apply sports nutrition and medical nutrition therapy concepts to unique athletic situations and varied conditions and special populations.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss state-of-the-art research in nutrients and genetic regulation of metabolism
Audience: Graduate

2. Communicate scientific research and critically evaluate experimental results
Audience: Graduate