Apply current theories and techniques of counseling appropriate to nutrition. Emphasis on effective communication, client-centered counseling methods, motivational interviewing, behavior change, and factors affecting nutritional intake. Nutrition psychology and principles of group counseling/facilitation will also be explored.

Designed to integrate scientific principles and clinical knowledge with emphasis on clinical decision-making related to providing optimal nutrition care. Course will emphasize understanding the pathophysiology of diseases and mastery of their nutritional implications and interventions. Students build and expand on knowledge and emphasize applications into their clinical care process. Active participation in lecture discussions and lab simulation is an integral part of class.

This course explores the role of nutrition and the gut microbiota in underlying biochemical, metabolic, and immunological processes of chronic and infectious diseases. The course first provides an overview of organs, systems, metabolic processes, and their modulation by nutrients and the gut microbiota, with a focus on human health. The second half of the course covers the mechanistic links between nutrition, the gut microbiota, and chronic and infectious diseases, where students have an opportunity to apply the concepts learned in the first half of the course. To be successful in this course students will need to have taken courses in biochemistry, nutrition, or nutritional biochemistry, or have instructor permission.

Research project on a specified topic in Oceanography, guided by a faculty member. Oceanography M.S. majors only.