Oct 04, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Nutrition and Food Science, Food Industry Concentration, B.S.


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.

Academic Map


Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Nutrition and Food Science, Food Industry Concentration, B.S., Academic Map   

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)


Auxiliary Course (4 hours)


Optional Minor (15-18 hours)


Electives (4-17 hours)


Curriculum: Nutrition and Food Science, Food Industry


Freshman Fall


Subtotal: 14 Hours


Freshman Spring


Subtotal: 16 Hours


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
  •  

  • 3 credit hours AND
  • 0 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours


Sophomore Spring


  • 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

Subtotal: 15 Hours


Junior Fall


Subtotal: 15 hours


Junior Spring


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Senior Fall


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Senior Spring


  • Optional minor/electives 9 credit hours
  • Major elective 3 credit hours
  • Elective 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours