Nutrition and Wellness Minors
Enhance your major by adding a nutrition and wellness minor!
An understanding of nutrition science is a wonderful complement to any number of programs, such as medicine and other health sciences, agriculture and food production, business and retailing, and public policy. Adding a nutrition and wellness minor will also make you a more competitive applicant in the job market and for graduate or professional schools.
NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES: ALL CAMPUSES
If you're passionate about nutrition but not sure if the nutrition majors are right for you, consider the minor!
NUTRITION AND FOOD SYSTEMS: MAIN CAMPUS
If you're curious about the complex relationships that govern our food system, this minor just might be for you!
PRECISION NUTRITION AND WELLNESS: MAIN CAMPUS
If you're interested in furthering your career in the field of research, this minor might be for you!
SPORTS NUTRITION: MAIN CAMPUS AND AZ ONLINE CAMPUS
If you're interested in the growing field of sports nutrition, this minor is a winner!
WEIGHT INCLUSIVE HEALTH: MAIN CAMPUS
If you're interested in learning how to spot and combat implicit and explicit weight bias in health and wellness fields, this minor is a perfect fit!
EXPLORE YOUR LOVE OF NUTRITION!
If you're passionate about nutrition but not sure if the nutrition majors are right for you, consider the minor! A nutrition minor may complement your major and increase your skill set. It also gives you a competitive edge in the job market, since nutrition is relevant to many different careers, including nursing, pharmacy, medicine, and other healthcare fields.
The nutritional sciences minor requires 18 total units and can be completed on campus or online.
Approved courses include:
- NSC 101: Introduction to Human Nutrition
- NSC 255: Food and Culture
- NSC 301: Nutrition and the Life Cycle
- NSC 310: Health and Disease
- NSC 315: Sports Nutrition
- NSC 353: Food Science and Safety
- NSC 375: Diet, Genes, and Disease
- NSC 376: Bioactive Food Compounds
- NSC 455: Mediterranean Diet and Health Study Abroad
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In order to declare a minor, you must be a UA student with a declared UA major. Students may elect to pursue the nutritional sciences minor, OR the food systems minor, OR the precision nutrition and wellness minor, OR the sports nutrition minor. Students are not eligible to complete multiple minors within the school.
Majors within the school are not eligible to declare a nutritional sciences minor, sports nutrition minor, nor food systems minor. SNSW majors interested in taking the sports nutrition or food systems classes should contact their academic advisor to discuss a thematic minor.
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Advising appointments for minors are not necessary, as most questions can be answered during drop-in hours or via email. If you still have questions after consulting the requirements online for your catalog year, contact an SNSW advisor.
EXPLORE THE WORLD'S FOOD SYSTEMS!
If you're curious about the complex relationships between culture, economics, policy and marketing, and the food system, this minor just might be for you! A food systems minor prepares you to lead the way in finding solutions to feed a steadily increasing population while preserving precious natural resources. Experience with food systems is relevant to many different careers, including food sales and marketing, organic food certification, the nonprofit sector, food policy and lobbying, food journalism, food entrepreneurship, and more.
The Nutrition and Food Systems minor requires 18 total units and can be completed on main campus.
Required core courses include:
- NSC 101: Introduction to Human Nutrition
- FOOD 101: Introduction to Critical Food Studies
- FOOD 102: Introduction to Food Systems
Approved elective courses include:
Sustainable Agriculture & Life Sciences Electives:
- ACBS 310: Living in Symbiosis
- ENVS 310: Ecosystem Health & Justice
- RNR 340: Conservation & Agriculture in the Southwest
Food Policy & Economics Electives:
- ACBS 437: Food Safety Laws & Legal Policies
- AREC 313: Economics of Future Markets
- FOOD 360: Food Fights: Debates about the Future of Food
Leadership & Community Engagement Electives
- ALC 309: Leadership Principles & Practices
- ALC 409: Team & Organizational Leadership
- ALC 410: Entrepreneurial Leadership in Ag. & the Life Sciences
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Advising appointments for minors are not necessary, as most questions can be answered during drop-in hours or via email. If you still have questions after consulting the requirements online for your catalog year, contact an SNSW advisor.
EXPLORE THE FRONTIER OF PRECISION NUTRITION RESEARCH!
If you are interested in furthering your career in the field of research, this minor might be for you! A precision nutrition and wellness minor prepares you to gain the skills to build upon big data solutions developed for precision medicine and cancer treatment by finding new ways to apply data to better understand precision health from a holistic perspective, including interactions between genes, diets, and lifestyles. Experience in precision nutrition is relevant to many different careers, including genomic counseling, research coordination, data & bioinformatic science, and research & development specialization.
The precision nutrition and wellness minor requires 20 total units and can be completed on main campus.
Required Core Courses:
- NSC 101: Introduction to Human Nutrition
- NSC 275: Fundamentals of Precision Nutrition and Wellness
- NSC 308: Nutrition and Metabolism
- NSC 370: Emerging Topics in Precision Nutrition and Wellness
Approved elective courses include:
Data Analytics & Technology Electives
- ECOL 346: Bioinformatics
- MCB 416A: Bioinformatics and Functional Genomic Analysis
- MCB 422: Problem Solving with Genetic Tools
- MIC 340: Introduction to Biotechnology
Health & Wellness Electives
- HPS 478: Public Health Nutrition
- NSC 301: Nutrition and the Life Cycle
- NSC 320: Physical Activity and Health Promotion
Diet & Genes Electives
- BE 487: Metagenomics: From Genes to Ecosystems
- FSHD 200: Evolution and Human Development
- NSC 375: Diet, Genes, and Disease
- NSC 470: Precision Nutrition in Biomarkers of Health and Disease
- NSC 475: Nutrigenomics
- NSC 480: Precision Nutrition and Lifestyle Genomics
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Get more information on minoring in Precision Nutrition and Wellness with this helpful download:
Advising appointments for minors are not necessary, as most questions can be answered during drop-in hours or via email. If you still have questions after consulting the requirements online for your catalog year, contact an SNSW advisor.
EXPLORE YOUR LOVE OF FOOD AND FITNESS!
If you're interested in the growing field of sports nutrition, this minor is a great place to start! Adding the sports nutrition minor gives you a competitive edge in today's job market, whether you want to pursue a career in the field or as an additional set of skills to complement your other studies. Experience with sports nutrition is relevant to many different careers, including dietetics, strength conditioning coaching, professional training, tactical strength and conditioning, physical activity research and education, and athletic coaching at all levels.
The Sports Nutrition minor requires 19 total units and can be completed on main campus or Arizona Online.
Required core courses include:
- NSC 101: Introduction to Human Nutrition
- NSC 315: Sports Nutrition
- NSC 320: Physical Activity, and Health Promotion
- NSC 415R: Advanced Sports Nutrition
- NSC 415L: Advanced Sports Nutrition Lab
Approved elective courses include:
- NSC 311: A Systems Approach to Obesity Prevention
- NSC 332: Health Coaching
- NSC 376: Bioactive Compounds
- NSC 445: Body Composition
- NSC 497A: Applied Sports Nutrition Workshop
- MGMT 357: Life Cycle of Elite Athletes
- PHCL 442: Human Performance Pharmacology
- PSIO 420: Exercise Physiology
- TLS 356: Sports, Adolescents & Schools
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Get information on minoring in Nutritional Sciences with these helpful downloads:
Advising appointments for minors are not necessary, as most questions can be answered during drop-in hours or via email. If you still have questions after consulting the requirements online for your catalog year, contact an SNSW advisor.
EXPLORE NON-WEIGHT-BASED CONCEPTS OF WELLNESS
If you're interested in learning about weight stigma - what it is, how to spot it, and how to combat its effects on health outcomes - this minor could be a great fit! The weight inclusive health minor provides an overview of the frameworks available to provide weight inclusive care to individuals across the lifespan. Knowledge of weight-inclusive care principles and practices will be an asset to those who want careers in healthcare and other "helping professions."