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From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee (CSCC) for fall 2013 review:

New Courses:

NFS 311 Applied Management in Dietetics III. Prerequisites: NFS 100 and NFS 102. Majors only. Third of a four-course sequence. Food service systems and related subsystems; in-depth analysis of menu development and modifications for disease states; procurement, food production, distribution and service, and marketing applicable to dietetics and health-care food service management.

NFS 411 Applied Management in Dietetics IV. Prerequisite: NFS 311. Majors only. Fourth of a four-course sequence. Principles of health-care quantity recipe development; therapeutic modification of recipes and food production, with hands-on food preparation opportunities; importance of facility equipment and design; principles of food safety. Students become ServSafe certified.

Course Revisions:

HEA 622 Techniques of Counseling. Theories of counseling, development of basic and intermediate helping skills, intentional interviewing, conflict resolution, and self-assessment for the helping professions. Theories of counseling, development of skills and strategies for effective listening, assertion, individual and group facilitation, supervising, interviewing, self-assessment, and individual problem solving.

HEA 623 Techniques of Counseling for Diverse Groups and Cultures. Application and integration of basic counseling skills appropriate for diverse groups and cultures. Factors such as ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, family structures, religion and spirituality, disability, class, competency development, self-assessment, intervention strategies, future trends, and their counseling applications.

NFS 316 Life Cycle and Community Nutrition II. Prerequisite: NFS 315. Nutritional issues and chronic disease prevention in adult life; community nutrition services available to adults; identifying and developing community nutrition programs.

NFS 330 Integrative and Functional Nutrition (1 credit). Prerequisites: NFS 102 or NFS 334 or equivalent and junior or senior standing or instructor permission. Introduction to integrative and functional nutrition (IFN) and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); integration of healthful eating and dietary supplements that include vitamins, minerals, functional foods, phytochemicals, nutraceuticals for disease prevention and treatment. Emphasis on the regulatory (legal, ethical, and moral) issues of dietary supplements. Provides competency in IFN as a part of medical nutrition therapy.

NFS 401 Medical Nutritional Therapy I. Prerequisites: NFS 302, CHE 322, BIO 308, and BIO 309. Corequisite (for students in the coordinated dietetics program): NFS 445. First of a three-course sequence examining interrelationships of pathophysiology, biochemistry, genetics, and nutrition as related to medical nutritional therapy. Emphasis on the nutrition care process, nutritional assessment, and role of nutrition in preventing and treating diseases and disorders: obesity and weight management, cardiovascular disease, drug-nutrient interactions, and disordered eating.

NFS 405 Principles of Nutrition Education. Prerequisites: NFS 316 and NFS 401. Corequisites (for students in the coordinated dietetics program): NFS 402 and NFS 446. Theories and methods of learning communication and counseling as applied to nutrition education and counseling settings; development, implementation, and assessment of instructional unit using various forms of multimedia.