| Students interested in Community Nutrition & Health Promotion will select the following options when completing the Office of Graduate Studies online application: |
Major/Degree: Nutrition & Health Sciences
Specialization: Community Nutrition & Health Promotion
A thesis is not required in this option. Selection of a minor is required. The specialization in Community Nutrition & Health Promotion is designed to meet the needs of practitioners in community nutrition, health education and promotion. The specialization provides the opportunity for students to be competent in assessing needs, planning, managing, implementing, and evaluating programs. It also provides the student with the knowledge and skills to conduct research in the area of community nutrition and health promotion. The requirements are designed so that the student upon completion of the specialization will have the competencies necessary to pass the certification exam as a Certified Health Education Specialist.
Major/Degree Requirements:
- Minimum of 36 semester hours of credit in courses representing the major and either one or two minors.
- If one minor is selected, then a minimum of 18 hours in the major (i.e., courses having the prefix NUTR) and 9 hours in the minor.
- If two minors are selected, then a minimum of 15 hours in the major (i.e., courses having the prefix NUTR) and 9 hours in each minor.
- Minimum of 12 semester hours must be earned in courses open exclusively to graduate students (900 level or 800 level without 400 or lower counterparts).
- NUTR 846 Foundations of Health Behavior (3)
- NUTR 847 Theoretical Models of Health Behavior Change (3)
- NUTR 857 Classroom and Outreach Experience (3)
- NUTR 859 Nutrition: A Focus on Life Stages (3)
- NUTR 956 Advanced Community Nutrition (3)
- NUTR 986 Graduate Seminar (1)
- Select from other courses offered, with approval of the student’s Supervisory Committee, to complete degree requirements.
Minor Area of Study (9-12 credit hours):
The following are examples of appropriate minors, although students may choose a different minor with the approval of the Specialization Advisory Committee. If a student chooses a minor other than those listed, he/she must check with the minor department for their current course requirements.
Example 1: Educational Psychology—Statistics, Measurement and Evaluation
EDPS 859 Statistical Methods (or equivalent) (3)
Plus three of the following:
EDPS 860 Applications of Selected Advanced Statistics (3)
EDPS 870 Introduction to Educational and Psychological Measurement (3)
EDPS 941 Intermediate Statistics: Experimental Methods (3)
EDPS 942 Intermediate Statistics: Correlational Methods (3)
EDPS 969 Nonparametric Statistical Methods (3)
EDPS 970 Theory and Methods of Educational Measurement (3)
EDPS 972 Multivariate Analysis (3)
Example 2: Educational Psychology—Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Education
EDPS 859 Statistical Methods (or equivalent) (3)
EDPS 800 Foundations of Educational Research (or equivalent) (3)
EDPS 900A Correlational and Experimental Methods (3) or EDPS 900B Single Case/Small N Methods in Educational Research (3)
EDPS 900J Historical Methods in Educational Research (3) or EDPS 900K Qualitative Approaches in Educational Research (3)
Example 3: Educational Psychology—Development
Any four of the following:
EDPS 850 Child Psychology (3)
EDPS 851 Psychology of Adolescence (3)
EDPS 961 Cognitive Development (3)
EDPS 962 Research Literature in Personality and Social Development (3)
EDPS 963 Development Psychobiology (3)
EDPS 977 Seminar in College Student Development (2-3)
(An alternative course may be substituted upon approval of the Development Faculty member adviser)
Example 4: Educational Psychology—Cognition and Learning
Any four of the following:
EDPS 854 Human Cognition and Instruction (3)
EDPS 863 Human Behavior Analysis (3)
EDPS 960 Problem Solving and Concept Learning in Humans (3)
EDPS 966 Psychology of Learning (3)
EDPS 989 Psychology of Reading (3)
Example 5: Leadership Education and Leadership Studies
Must complete 4 of 6 listed
ALEC 800 Overview of Program Planning (3)
ALEC 805 Advanced Teaching Strategies (3)
ALEC 810 Environmental Leadership (3)
ALEC 866 Leadership and Diversity in Organizations and Communities (3)
ALEC 877 Leadership and Motivation (3)
ALEC 888 Leadership, Power and Influence(3)
Example 6: Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
TEAC 800 Inquiry into Teaching and Learning (3)
TEAC 801 Curriculum Inquiry (3)
One elective TEAC graduate course (3)
Practicum Sites
- County/Regional Public Health Dept. They have agreed to take graduate students for practicum in the fall semester.
- Cooperative Extension: We could probably place a student in Omaha, Lincoln and Scottsbluff as well as other sites to be determined.
- WIC Program: Lancaster County Health Department and Douglas County Health Department WIC programs.
- Lincoln Medical Education Foundation—Mary Jo Gillespie.
- Head Start.
- Omaha Social Settlement.
- Eastern Nebraska Office on Aging in Omaha; Lifetime Health in Lincoln.
- Lincoln Action Program.
- Meals on Wheels—ENOA in Omaha and Tabitha in Lincoln.
- Dairy Council and Nebraska Beef Council.
- CACFP—Before and After School Programs.
- State Office of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention—Jamie Hahn and Jeff Armitage.
- Community Action Agencies of Nebraska as well as regional agencies such as Mid-Nebraska Community Action.
- Ethnic Centers in Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island and Scottsbluff.
