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Foods and Nutrition Textbook Adoptions (pdf)
FN 52000: Medical Nutrition Therapy
Spring semester. 4 credits
Prerequisites: FN 33000, 43600, and 43800
Application of nutrition principles in the dietary treatment of certain diseases.
FN 52500: Maternal, Infant, and Child Nutrition
Spring semester, 3 credits
Prerequisite: FN 33000
Nutrition and physiological interrelationships during pregnancy, infancy, and childhood.
HK 52700: Weight Management and Eating Disorders
Fall semester, 3 credits
FN 53000: Public Health Nutrition
Spring semester, 2 credits
Prerequisite: FN 33000
Assessment of nutritional needs of the community and of programs that service these needs.
FN 53400: Human Sensory Systems and Food Evaluation
Spring semester, 3 credits
Prerequisites: STAT 30100
Overview of human chemosensory (taste, smell, chemesthetic) mechanisms and abilities; procedural and statistical methods for evaluating the sensory properties of foods.
FN 53500: Advanced Methods in Food Analysis
Spring semester, 3 credits
Admission by consent of instructor
Theory and application of chromatographic, spectroscopic, microscopic, electrophoretic, and radiotracer techniques.
FN 53600: Current Topics in Food Science
Fall semester, 3 credits
Admission by consent of instructor
Critical evaluation of recent literature in the field of food science.
FN 53800: Readings in Nutrition
Fall semester, 1-3 credits
Survey of recent literature in the field of nutrition.
FN 54000: Food Regulations (FS 54000)
Spring semester, 1 credit
Prerequisites: senior-level standing and two advanced-level courses in food science, or consent of instructor.
Federal, state, and international regulations pertaining to the quality, wholesomeness, nutrition, and safety of foods; discussion of current topics in food legislation.
FN 58000: Geriatric Nutrition
Spring semester/alternate years, 2 credits
Prerequisite: FN 43800
Nutrition needs and problems of the aging; community and institutional food programs.
FN 59000: Special topics courses
Semester and credits as noted below
These upper level courses conducted in a journal club or discussion format. Topics within courses can vary by year.
Adipose Biology (Fall semester/alternate years, 2 credits)
Basic Bone Biology (at IUPUI) (Spring semester/alternate years, 2 credits)
FN 590B: Obesity - Behavior, Physiology, & Policy (Fall semester, alternate years, 2 credits)
FN590R: Lipid Regulation of Cell Function (Fall semester/alternate years, 2 credits)
Nutritional Epidemiology (Summer session/alternate years, 2 credits)
Nutrition and Genetics (Spring semester/alternate years, 2 credits)
Phytochemicals: Biochemistry and Physiology (Spring semester/alternate years, 1 credit)
FN590F: Research in Ingestive Behavior (Fall, 1 credit)
Special Lectures in Ingestive Behavior (Also PSY 692D)
Spring 2006: Thermogenesis and Body Weight Regulation
FN 59500: Special Problems in Food Science
Fall and Spring semester, 1-4 credits
Credit and hours to be arranged.
Individual research problems dealing with various aspects of research in the food sciences.
HORT 60300: Grants and Grantsmanship
Spring semester, 1 credit
Focuses on funding opportunities in agricultural research and techniques of writing successful scientific grant proposals.
FN 60500, 60600, 60700: Nutritional Biochemistry and Physiology
Fall and Spring semester. 8 credits, 2 semesters total: FN60500, 1 semester 4 credits, FN60600 and 60700, ½ semester each, 2 credits each..
Prerequisites: Biochemistry, organ level physiology, general nutrition or consent of instructor. Must be taken in sequence (60500, 60600, 60700)
This is the core graduate course in nutrition for all Interdepartmental Nutrition Program graduate students. It serves as a foundation in the scientific concepts relevant to nutrient metabolism and
nutrient-disease interaction. Topics covered include: 60500, cell and molecular biology of the intestine, molecular regulation of nutrient metabolism, nutrient absorption, and mineral metabolism. 60600: Nutrient metabolism and homeostasis during growth and development, diseases of carbohydrate and protein metabolism; 60700: Lipid metabolism, vitamin metabolism and their relationship to cardiovascular disease.
ENTM 61500: Responsible Conduct in Research
Fall and Spring semester, 1 credit
The goal of this course is to introduce students to the values and norms of scientific research/scholarship and elements of basic ethical theory as well as the federal law and regulations, and Purdue University policy, governing the practice of research.
VCS 602B: Cancer Risk and Prevention
Fall semester/alternate years, 2 credits
ANSC 62000: Proteins and Amino Acids in Nutrition
Fall semester/ alternate years, 3 credits
Prerequisite: BCHM 562 or consent of instructor
Concepts concerning requirements for dietary amino acids, nutritional regulation of amino acid metabolism, and regulation of protein metabolism.
FN 62300: Human Nutrition and Cancer
Spring semester/alternate years, 2 credits
Prerequisite: Core course or consent of instructor
An in-depth examination of the role of nutrition in cancer.
FN 63000: Carbohydrates (also FS 630)
Fall semester/alternate years, 3 credits
Prerequisites: two semesters of organic chemistry or consent of instructor.
Carbohydrates with an emphasis on those of low molecular weight in foods. Structures, reactions, and properties of mono- and oligosaccharides. Introduction to polysaccharides and food gums.
VPB 62300: Microcomputer Application in Clinical & Biomedical Research
Fall semester/alternate even years, 3 credits
FN 64000: Human Feeding
Fall semester/alternate years, 2 credits
Prerequisites: physiology, biochemistry, and graduate standing, or consent of instructor.
Critical review of the genetic, neural, metabolic, endocrine, sensory, cognitive, and cultural determinants of appetite, food selection, and energy balance.
VCS 65000: Biology of Aging
Spring semester/alternate years, variable credit
FN 69000: Grant Writing
Fall and Spring semester, 1 credit
Prerequisites: enrollment in the Ph.D. program and approval of the students major professor.
Instruction in the writing of a research grant for a federal agency (e.g. NIH, USDA), industry, or not-for-profit organization. Students work one-on-one with their major professor. The proposal is reviewed by the student’s Ph.D. dissertation committee.
PSY 692C: Special Lectures in Neuroscience: Shared Mechanisms of Obesity and Addiction
Fall semester, 2 credits
FN 69400: Introductory Foods and Nutrition Seminar
Spring semester, 1 credit
Prerequisite: graduate student status.
Instruction in effective oral and poster presentations of nutrition research.
FN 69500 (CRN 20707): Seminar
Fall and Spring semester, 1 credit
Prerequisite: FN 69400
Mentored instruction on the presentation of research seminars for a scientific audience.
FN 69500 (CRN 20708): Seminar
Fall and Spring semester, 0 credits
Prerequisites: none
Seminar presentations from visiting faculty, Purdue faculty, and Purdue students on current research relevant to Foods and Nutrition.
BIOL 695T: Techniques in Molecular Biology
Fall semester, 1 credit
Meets first ½ of the semester only. Lectures on techniques commonly used in molecular biology.
FN 69800: M.S. Thesis Research
Fall and Spring semester, variable credit
Mentored research experience for M.S. degree students.
FN 69900: Ph.D. Dissertation Research
Fall and Spring semester, variable credit
Mentored research experience for PhD degree students.
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