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Oct 04, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Nutrition and Food Science, Food Industry Concentration, B.S.
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Human Sciences
615-898-2091
Janet Colson, program director
Janet.Colson@mtsu.edu
The major in Nutrition and Food Science with a concentration in Food Industry is designed to provide students with a background in all areas of foods, from production to consumption. The courses will provide a background in the scientific and artistic aspects of culinology, food safety, and food systems management.
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Degree Requirements
True Blue Core (TBC) |
41 hours |
Major Requirements |
53 hours* |
Auxiliary Course |
4 hours* |
Optional Minor |
15-18 |
Electives (if minor chosen) |
4-17 hours |
TOTAL |
120 hours |
*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours will increase.
True Blue Core (41 hours)
True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.
The following courses required by the major meet True Blue Core requirements:
Major Requirements (53 hours)
Nutrition and Food Science (15 hours)
Food Industry Concentration (23 hours)
Major Electives (15 hours)
Choose 15 credit hours from the following:
Auxiliary Course (4 hours)
Optional Minor (15-18 hours)
Curriculum: Nutrition and Food Science, Food Industry
Sophomore Fall
- Non-written Communication 3 credit hours
- History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
- Quantitative Literacy (MATH 1010 recommended) 3 credit hours
- Minor/elective 3 credit hours
- NFS 3200 - Food Science 3 credit hours AND
- NFS 3201 - Food Science Lab 0 credit hours
Sophomore Spring
- NFS 3260 - Community Nutrition 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
- History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
- Minor/elective 3 credit hours
- Major elective 3 credit hours
Senior Spring
- Optional minor/electives 9 credit hours
- Major elective 3 credit hours
- Elective 3 credit hours
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