Check the Undergraduate Bulletin to view the latest requirements.
The FCS: Foods and Nutrition degree is a broad major and does not require a minor. However, it is strongly recommended that F&N majors do select a minor such as Corporate and Community Fitness, Marketing, Management, or Community Health.
A flexible minor is available in the foods and nutrition area. Students majoring in Nursing, Human Performance,Dental Hygiene, Food Science Technology, Community Health or other related majors may want to enhance their majors with this minor. The minor consists of 20 credits of approved courses.
Required courses (16 credits)
- FCS 140 – Introduction to Nutrition (3)
- FCS 240 – Nutrition I (3)
- FCS 340 – Food Science (4)
- FCS 440 – Nutrition II (pre:FCS 240, CHEM 111, BIO 230) (3)
- FCS 446 – Lifespan Nutrition (3)
May select 4 credits below
- FCS 100 – Personal and Family Living (3)
- FCS 101 – Introduction to FCS (3)
- FCS 252 – Foodservice Systems I (3)
- FCS 275 – Consumers in the Economy (3)
- FCS 301 – Lifespan Development (3)
- FCS 303 – Working with Families (3)
- FCS 350 – Foodservice Systems II (pre: FCS 252) (3)
- FCS 400 – Culturally Diverse Family Systems (3)
- FCS 401 – Family Life Development (3)
- FCS 408 – Family Life Dynamics (3)
- FCS 439 – Nutrition in Exercise and Sport (pre: FCS 140 or 240 and BIO 230) (3)
- FCS 444 – Experimental Food Science (pre: FCS 340) (3)
- FCS 445 – Food Preservation (3)
- FCS 475 – Family Policy (3)
- FCS 483 – Adult Education in FCS (3)
- FCS 497/498 – FN Internship (1-2)
