Nutrition

Minimum number of credits to complete the minor:  20

Minimum cumulative GPA required to graduate:  2.0

School: School of Nursing and Health Sciences

Department: Health Sciences and Nutrition

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Learn how human nutrition, chronic disease prevention and population health affects our daily life. Merrimack’s minor offers a multidisciplinary perspective on food and culture exploring areas such as the politics of food, the impact of modern agriculture on the environment and health behavior and promotion.

Interested in a variety of careers where health, wellness and environmental sustainability are a focus? This minor is for you! Plan to tailor your academic experience with multidisciplinary topics, allowing you to be well positioned for high-demand employment opportunities post graduation.

This minor is perfect for diving deeper into the topic of nutrition while majoring in another subject. You’ll understand the socioeconomic, behavioral, biological, environmental and other factors that impact human health and contribute to health disparities.

Plan to understand the fundamentals of protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamin and mineral requirements and metabolism as a basis for the study of the relationship between diet and health in both a personal and global perspective.

You’ll learn all about the impact that human nutrition and industrial agriculture have on environmental quality, food resources and energy consumption. While Nutritional Sciences majors cannot minor in Nutrition, students in other majors (including Health Science and Public Health) may. Note: many upper-level courses have prerequisites.