Nutrition and Dietetics Major
Student Learning Outcomes – Nutrition Option
Students will be able to:
1. Locate, interpret, evaluate, and use professional literature to make ethical evidence-based practice decisions
2. Use current information technologies to locate and apply evidence-based guidelines and protocols
3. Demonstrate effective and professional oral and written communication and documentation
4. Demonstrate counseling techniques to facilitate behavior change
5. Apply professional guidelines to a practice scenario
6. Develop interventions to affect change and enhance wellness in diverse individuals and groups
7. Develop an educational session or program/educational strategy for a target population
8. Apply food safety principles related to food, personnel, and consumers
9. Analyze data for assessment and evaluate data to use in decision-making
10. Explain the impact of health care policy and different health care delivery systems on food and nutrition services
11. Explain the coding and billing of dietetics/nutrition services to obtain reimbursement for services from public or private insurers