222.655.01
Nutrition and Life Stages
Location
East Baltimore
Term
3rd Term
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
In-person
M, W, 1:30 - 2:50pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
Reviews stages of human development as a prism for understanding human nutrition. Focuses on life stages through a progression, highlighting the biological, genetic, social and behavioral (e.g., diet, physical activity, mental health) influences on well-being in that life stage, as well as changes that influence the transitions in nutrition between life stages. Discusses social and political dimensions to health/disease differences within and between populations.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Integrate genetics, biology, and nutrition through in-depth study of a nutritional issue across the life stage
- Explain behavioral and psychological factors (e.g., diet, physical activity, mental health) that affect a population’s health and nutrition
- Explain the social, political and economic determinants of health and how they contribute to population health and nutrition and inequities
- Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community and societal levels
- Communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation
- Discuss biological, social, cultural, and behavioral influences on nutrition in the different stages of human development
- Place public health nutrition problems in their biological, social, cultural, behavioral, and epidemiologic contexts
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 5% Attendance
- 15% In-class Participation
- 10% Quizzes
- 5% Bibliography
- 10% Conceptual Framework
- 35% Review Paper
- 20% Paper Presentation
Enrollment Restriction
Restricted to graduate students