Learning Outcomes
| MSU Outcome | Major Outcomes | HNF 350 Outcome |
| Analytic Thinking | Students will have the analytical thinking to:
· Justify the relationships between health and diet status for individuals and populations based on analysis of credible nutrition evidence · Analyze food, health, and nutrition problems using appropriate research methods |
· Describe the role of nutrients as related to health and disease states, including cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease
· Justify how nutrient recommendations change across the lifespan, population, & health status · Analyze current articles/reviews in the field of basic science and clinical trials as they relate to the topics of the course · Assess how research was performed in a scientific paper, analyze the results, and discuss implications towards nutrition recommendations |
| Cultural Understanding | Students will have the cultural understanding to:
· Analyze how socio-economics, culture, environmental, & geography influences diet, access to nutrients, beliefs about health & healthy lifestyles · Integrates diverse perspectives held by people, groups, and populations and their relationship to nutrition and health |
· Analyze diverse and conflicting perspectives on nutrition problems and use valid evidence to support decisions
· Seek out information from diverse sources to understand nutrition and health issues · Describe environmental sources and influences on food |
| Integrated Reasoning | Students will have the integrated reasoning to:
· Connect food and nutrition knowledge with the biological and/or social sciences to address contemporary topics in disease prevention and treatment · Evaluate multiple sides of a complex nutrition or food issue using diverse, appropriate evidence |
· Connect social and behavioral science theories to nutrition and health problems
· Map nutrient system and function – starting with the environment, to dietary uptake in humans, and metabolic functioning in humans |
