Supporting Courses
Supporting courses and related areas allow flexibility to meet your educational and career goals. In general, courses that cover topics that relate to Nutritional Sciences may be considered for a supporting course.
Here are a few key points to remember about supporting courses:
- Students must get adviser approval before the course will be allowed as a supporting course on their Academic Requirements Report.
- Any NUTR course numbered with 101 or higher that is not required to meet the major degree requirements can be a supporting course. An exception is NUTR 119, which is a course for non-NUTR majors, and may not be used as a supporting course.
- Only 3 (three) credits of NUTR 496 may count towards supporting courses and related areas.
- For the “Nutritional Physiology and Biochemistry” option
- 3 (three) credits may be substituted with credits earned through ROTC.
- 3 (three) credits must cover the topic of “Ethics.”
- For the “Behavioral Nutrition and Public Health” option and the “Nutrition and Dietetics” option
- 3 (three) credits may be substituted with credits earned through ROTC.
Below is a list of lower-division Supporting Courses/University Wide Offerings to help get you started:
ACCTG 211 Financial and Managerial Accounting for Decision Making
AGBM 101 Economic Principles of Agribusiness Decision Making
AGBM 102 Economics of the Food System
AGBM 170Z Investigating the U.S. Food System: How food moves from field to table
AGECO 134N Sustainable Agriculture Science and Policy
AFAM 302 (BBH 302) Diversity and Health
AFR 305 (BBH 305) Introduction to Global Health Issues
AMST 106N (COMM 100N) The Mass Media and Society
ANTH 45N Cultural Diversity: A Global Perspective
BBH 101 Introduction to Biobehavioral Health
BBH 143 Drugs, Behavior, and Health
BBH 203 (PSYCH 260) Neurological Basis of Human Behavior
BBH 302 (AFAM 302) Diversity and Health
BBH 305 (AFR 305) Introduction to Global Health Issues
BBH 316 Foundations and Principles of Health Promotion
BIOL 110 Biology: Basic Concepts and Biodiversity
BIOL 133 Genetics and Evolution of the Human Species
BIOL 222 Genetics
BIOL 230W Biology: Molecules and Cells
BIOL 240W Biology: Function and Development of Organisms
CAS 203 Interpersonal Communication
CED 152 Community Development Concepts and Practice
CED 230 Development Issues in the Global Context
COMM 100N (AMST 106N) The Mass Media and Society
COMM 320 Introduction to Advertising
COMM 370 Public Relations
EDPSY 10 Individual Differences and Education
EDPSY 14 Learning and Instruction
FIN 100 Introduction to Finance
FOR 201 Global Change and Ecosystems
GEOG 20 Human Geography: An Introduction
GEOG 30N Environment and Society in a Changing World
GEOG 123 Geography of Developing Worlds
GEOG 124 Elements of Cultural Geography
GEOG 126 Economic Geography
HDFS 210Z Ethnicity, Health and Aging
HIST 116N (WMNST 116N) Family and Gender Roles in Modern History
HPA 101 Introduction to Health Services Organizations
HM 201 Introduction to Management in the Hospitality Industry
HM 202 Colloquium in Hospitality Management
HPA 301W Health Services Policy Issues
INTAG 100N Everyone Eats: Hunger, Food Security & Global Agriculture
KINES 100 The Cultural and Behavioral Foundations of Kinesiology
KINES 101 The Biophysical Foundations of Kinesiology
LHR 100 Exploring Work and Employment
PSYCH 212 Introduction to Developmental Psychology
PSYCH 221 Introduction to Social Psychology
PSYCH 260 (BBH 203) Neurological Basis of Human Behavior
PSYCH 270 Introduction to Abnormal Psychology
PSYCH 301W Basic Research Methods in Psychology
RHS 100 Introduction to Disability Culture
RSOC 11 Introductory Rural Sociology
SOC 1 Introductory Sociology
SOC 3 Introductory Social Psychology
SOC 23 Population and Policy Issues
SOC 30 Sociology of the Family
SOC 110 (WMNST 110) Sociology of Gender
SOC 210Z Social Determinants of Health
SOC 211Z Health Inequalities: Understanding the Geographies of Life and Death
SOILS 71 Environmental Sustainability
SOILS 101 Introductory Soil Science
SPAN 100 Intermediate Grammar and Composition
SPAN 100A Intermediate Grammar and Composition for Spanish Bilinguals
SPAN 100B Intermediate Grammar and Composition for Students in Medical-Related Fields
SPAN 100C Intermediate Grammar and Composition for Students in Communication-related Fields
WMNST 110 (SOC 110) Sociology of Gender
WMNST 116N (HIST 116N) Family and Gender Roles in Modern History
Below is a list of 400-level courses that can be taken to satisfy the “400-level University Wide Offerings” requirement.
AEE 400 Global Agricultural Education
AEE 440 Communication Methods and Media
AG 400 Biometry/Statistics in the Life Sciences
BBH 432 Biobehavioral Aspects of Stress
BBH 446 Human Sexuality as a Health Concern
BBH 451 Pharmacological Influences on Health
BBH 452 (NURS 452/WMNST 452) Women’s Health Issues
FDSC 404 Sensory Data Collection & Analysis
FDSC 407 Food Toxins
HM 413 New Product Development for Commercial Food Service
HM 430 Advanced Food Production and Service Management
NURS 401 Concepts of Health
NURS 452 (BBH 452/WMNST 452) Women’s Health Issues
NURS 464 Dying and Death
WMNST 452 (BBH 452/NURS 452) Women’s Health Issues
If you are in the Nutritional Physiology and Biochemistry option, below are the courses that can be taken to satisfy the “Ethics” requirement.
BIOET 100 (PHIL 132) Bioethics
BBH 301W Values and Ethics in Biobehavioral Health Research and Practice
BIOET 401Q Science, Ethics, Policy, and Law
PHIL 103 Ethics
PHIL 119 Ethical Leadership
PHIL 123 Media Ethics
PHIL 132 (BIOET 100) Bioethics
PHIL 432 (STS 432) Medical and Health Care Ethics
RLST 131 Introduction to Bioethics
STS 432 (PHIL 432) Medical and Health Care Ethics
Consultation with an adviser is encouraged! Contact Joanna Maatta (jum27@psu.edu) to request approval for a course or courses you would like to have considered to be counted towards the Supporting Courses requirement.