Undergraduate Study
Nutrition Minor Requirements
The Nutrition Minor requires a total of 25 credits. Students follow the requirements that are in place at the time they declare the minor.
View requirements from previous academic years.
Both of the following courses:
| NUTR 200 | Nutrition for Today (5) | Prerequisite: None |
| NUTR 400 | Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health Seminar (1) | Prerequisite: None |
The minor requires a total of 25 credits. You must take enough elective credits that when combined with the credits from your core requirements, you have a minimum of 25 total credits.
| NUTR 141 | Introduction to Foods (5) | Prerequisite: none |
| NUTR 202 | Research Methods in Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health (5) | Prerequisite: none |
| NUTR 241 | Culinary Nutrition Science (3) | Prerequisite: NUTR 200; cannot be taken for credit if credit earned in NUTR 441 |
| NUTR 302 | Food Systems: Harvest to Health (5) | Prerequisite: NUTR 200 |
| NUTR 303 | Food Systems: Individual to Population Health (5) | Prerequisite: NUTR 200 |
| NUTR 310 | Nutrition and the Life Course (4) | Prerequisite: NUTR 200 |
| NUTR 312 | Food System Sustainability and Resilience (3) | Prerequisite: none |
| NUTR 341 | Exploration of Multisensory Dining (3) | Prerequisite: either NUTR 141 or NUTR 241 |
| NUTR 390 | Food Seminar (1) | Prerequisite: none |
| NUTR 405 | Physical Activity in Health and Disease (3) | Prerequisite: either BIOL 118 or BIOL 220 |
| NUTR 406 | Sports Nutrition (3) | Prerequisite: NUTR 200 |
| NUTR 411 | Diet in Health and Disease (3) | Prerequisite: either NUTR 200 or NUTR 300 |
| NUTR 412 | United States Food Systems Policy (5) | Prerequisite: NUTR 302 |
| NUTR 413 | Sustainable Food Systems in Italy (5) | Prerequisite: none |
| NUTR 415 | Body Weight and Size Inclusivity: Clinical, Behavioral, and Societal Perspectives (5) | Prerequisite: NUTR 200 |
| NUTR 420 | Global Nutrition: Challenges and Opportunities (3) | Prerequisite: NUTR 200 |
| NUTR 441 | Food and Culinary Science (3) | Prerequisite: NUTR 200; either CHEM 120 or CHEM 142; and either CHEM 220 or CHEM 237 |
| NUTR 446 | Food Safety and Health (3) | Prerequisite: none |
| NUTR 465/ BIO A 465 | Nutritional Anthropology (3) | Prerequisite: BIO A 201 |
| NUTR 490 | Special Topics in Nutritional Sciences (1-5) | Prerequisite: none |
| ANTH 361 | Anthropology of Food (5) | Prerequisite: one 200-level ANTH course |
| ENV H 306 | Health and Sustainability (3) | Prerequisite: none |
| ENV H 441 | Food Protection (3) | Prerequisite: either CHEM 120, CHEM 142, MICROM 301, or MICROM 410 |
| EPI 320 | Introduction to Epidemiology (4) | Prerequisite: none |
| GEOG 271 | Geography of Food and Eating (5) | Prerequisite: none |
| GEOG 371 | World Hunger and Agricultural Development (5) | Prerequisite: none |
| GEOG 380 | Geographical Patterns of Health and Disease (5) | Prerequisite: none |
- Minimum of 13 credits must be taken from the School of Public Health (NUTR, ENV H, or EPI courses).
- Minimum of 15 credits must be completed in 300- and 400-level courses.
- Minimum of 15 credits applied to the minor must be completed in residence through the University of Washington.
- Minimum of 15 credits applied to the minor must be taken outside of the student’s major requirements.
- Minimum cumulative 2.0 GPA is needed for courses applied toward the minor.
- Students must declare a major and have completed a minimum of 45 credits before declaring the minor.
- Students declare the minor with their major adviser.
