Begin a career promoting a healthy lifestyle through good nutrition.
Foods and Nutrition includes extensive work in our meal preparation labs as well as in the classroom. You’ll have opportunities to branch out into other areas of study such as writing nutrition articles and developing a nutrition broadcast to air on our campus TV station.
When you major in Foods and Nutrition at Ashland University, you complete a cutting-edge curriculum that includes a personal research project on par with those undertaken at graduate school, service learning efforts in the community and an internship experience. A decidedly hands-on program, Foods and Nutrition includes extensive work in our meal preparation labs as well as in the classroom. This awakening field offers a world of career possibilities.
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What You’ll Love About the Foods and Nutrition Major:
- You’ll have the opportunity to work with faculty on their research projects, which is especially valuable if you pursue graduate studies.
- You’ll get to know your professors well and work closely with them in our small classroom environment with a student/professor ratio of 15:1.
- You’ll undertake service-learning projects such as collaborating with community partner organizations to fight juvenile obesity in the schools, devising athletic dietary training programs or assisting at the Ashland University Wellness Fair.
- You will complete a research project on a topic of your choice such as these recent studies: How Health and Nutrient Claims Influence Purchasing Behavior and Factors Influencing Beverage Choices Among Children.
- You’ll get to attend and network at state and national professional meetings including the Ohio Nutrition Council and the American Dietetic Association.
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Reach Your Career Goals, Enhance Your Knowledge
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When you graduate from the Foods and Nutrition program, you will be prepared to hold these and other positions:
- Food & beverage manager
- Nutritionist
- Caterer
- Cookbook & magazine editor
- Equipment specialist
- Food stylist
- Food program specialist (WIC)
- Menu planner
- Food service manager
- Corporate or private fitness/health educator
- Food science researcher
- Restaurant manager
- Test kitchen specialist
- Weight reduction specialist
Enhance your knowledge and career possibilities by adding:
- Double major in biochemistry — give yourself the option of taking your career into a medical field
- Minor in chemistry — give your résumé additional science background
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Gain Real World Experience
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All Foods and Nutrition majors complete an internship as part of their requirements. These can include such placements as the City Mission in Cleveland; St. Edward’s Hunger Center; Women, Infant, Children (WIC); Senior Centers; local schools and other similar locations.
Experiential learning has also included:
- Catering and serving banquets
- Helping as a food photographer’s assistant setting up lighting and props
- Writing articles for food magazines
- Working in a test kitchen supervising blind taste testing
- Presenting nutrition workshops for WIC
- Developing recipes in test kitchen
These internships, along with your service learning project work and research project experience will be invaluable additions to your résumé when you begin looking for employment after graduation.
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Interesting Classes You May Take
- Food and Culture — Explore nutritional needs of individuals and how to meet them, food supply around the world, and factors that determine what societies and families eat.
- Lifecycle Nutrition – Examine and discuss the importance of nutrients (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, and mineral) throughout the various life cycles of human development; including preconception, pregnancy, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and geriatrics. Discussions will focus on reducing health risk factors among these stages with emphasis on nutritional intake.
- Human Nutrition – Explore and discuss basic principles of human nutrition, which include digestion/absorption, energy balance, sports nutrition, nutrition and chronic illnesses.
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Organizations for Foods and Nutrition Majors
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