Nutrition Science (PhD)

Program Educational Goals:

1. Students will demonstrate the ability to identify strengths and limitations of different nutrition assessment tools, and choose appropriate ones for different settings.
2. Students will demonstrate written proficiency of the literature in a nutrition-related content area.
3. Students will demonstrate oral proficiency of the literature in a nutrition-related content area.
4. The student will demonstrate the ability to: (1) generate and code summary variables; (2) code and run appropriate descriptive, bivariate, and multivariable models; (3) interpret output for descriptive, bivariate, and multivariable models.
5. Students will demonstrate the ability to identify, and answer a novel research question.
6. Students will demonstrate the ability to disseminate written scientific literature.
7. Students will demonstrate the ability to verbally present scientific results in a scholarly setting.

Requirements for the Degree:

The Nutrition Science PhD Program requires successful completion of a minimum of 48 credit hours, completion of preliminary examination, dissertation proposal defense, dissertation defense and a publishable paper. The Nutrition Science PhD Program is designed to be completed over a 4-year period.

Credits to Total a Minimum of 48

Last Revised for 2022-2023 Academic Year