Maternal and Child Nutrition Certificate Requirements

Students are required to complete a minimum of 11 credit hours with a ‘B’ or better in each course to receive the certificate.

Students must have one (1) course in Public Health Approaches to Maternal and Child Nutrition:

• HBHED 634 Child and Health Development (Fall, 3 credits)
• NUTR/EHS 660 Environmental Epigenetics and Public Health (Winter, 2 credits)

Students must have two (2) courses in Foundations in Maternal and Child Nutrition:

• NUTR 540 Maternal and Child Nutrition (Winter, 2 credits)
• NUTR 510 Nutrition in the Life Cycle (Winter, 3 credits)
• NUTR 677 Physical Growth and Maturation (Fall, 2 credits)

Students must have one (1) course in Applications to Maternal and Child Health:

• EPID 673 Epidemiology of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (Winter, 2 credits)
• HBHEQ 540 Fundamentals of Reproductive Health (Winter, 3 credits)
• HBHEQ 614 Women’s Health and the Timing of Reproduction (Winter, 3-4 credits)
• HBHEQ 629 Families and Health (Winter, 3 credits)
• PHYSIOL 541 Mammalian Reproductive Physiology (Winter, 4 credits)
• NUTR593 Food Security, Policy, and Programs (Fall, 3 credits)
• NUTR650 Socio-Ecological Approaches To Child And Adolescent Nutrition (Winter, 3 Credits)