About the Program
The Nutrition Science major provides a foundation to pursue careers that improve lives, prevent diseases, promote health, and make a difference. What you eat can not only promote health, but it also influences your risk of many diseases including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, and obesity. Nutrition Science majors often go on to obtain doctoral, masters, medical, physical therapy, physician assistant, and dentistry degrees, as well as earn careers as research assistants, chemists, program managers, product developers, pharmaceutical sales representatives, and many other important roles in areas such as medicine, government, industry (food, agriculture, pharmaceutical), and non-profit. Students who major in Nutrition Science develop a knowledge base in science and nutrition to understand and explore the relationship between what we eat and human health. Courses specific to this major emphasize the fundamentals of nutrition, the metabolism of nutrients in health and disease, and nutrition science research.
Graduates from the Nutrition Science major are recognized as having a strong grasp of biomedical research. Many will spend their careers discovering new knowledge that will directly impact the way that nutrition-related diseases are treated and managed. Medical practitioners rely on discoveries made through research to develop new recommendations for the improvement of public health. While earning their degree, Purdue Nutrition Science students work alongside world-renowned faculty experts to gain a deeper understanding of the process whereby such discoveries are made.
Department of Nutrition Science
Nutrition Science Major Change (CODO) Requirements
World Language Courses
World Language proficiency requirements vary by program. The following list is inclusive of all world languages PWL offers for credit; for acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor. (ASL-American Sign Language; ARAB-Arabic; CHNS-Chinese; FR-French; GER-German; GREK-Greek(Ancient); HEBR-Hebrew(Biblical); HEBR-Hebrew(Modern); ITAL-Italian; JPNS-Japenese; KOR-Korean; LATN-Latin; PTGS=Portuguese; RUSS-Russian; SPAN-Spanish)
Critical Course
The ♦ course is considered critical.
In alignment with the Degree Map Guidance for Indiana’s Public Colleges and Universities, published by the Commission for Higher Education (pursuant to HEA 1348-2013), a Critical Course is identified as “one that a student must be able to pass to persist and succeed in a particular major. Students who want to be nurses, for example, should know that they are expected to be proficient in courses like biology in order to be successful. These would be identified by the institutions for each degree program”.
