Accreditation: Ordinance n. 274, of March 31st, 2008
Degree: Bachelor's
Modality: On-campus
Shift: full time
Vacancies: 40
Total workload: 3,810 hours
Program duration: 8 semesters
Minimum: 8 semesters
Maximum: 14 semesters
Graduate's competences and skills
UFCSPA’s Nutrition program aims to educate nutritionists that will have a comprehensive training and a solid theoretical-practical foundation of a generalist, humanist and critical nature, who can actively participate in decision-making in the areas of Public Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition and Public Health for a conscious practice in line with the social reality. They are nutritionists whose work is guided by professional ethics, individual and collective integrity for the benefit of social transformation based on global health care, with an emphasis on nutrition, promoting people's health and sustainability.
Curriculum
|
Semester |
Axis |
Course |
Workload (hours) |
|
1 |
Fundamentals of Biology and Health |
General Anatomy |
60 |
|
Cytology, Histology and Embryology |
60 |
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|
Food Microbiology |
45 |
||
|
Parasitology |
45 |
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Chemistry Applied to Nutrition |
60 |
||
|
Humanities, Language and Education |
Bioethics |
30 |
|
|
Reading and Text Interpretation in English I |
30 |
||
|
Nutrition |
Social Responsibility |
45 |
|
|
Health, Nutrition and Food Culture |
45 |
||
|
Integrative Seminar |
60 |
||
|
|
Mentoring I |
20 |
|
|
2 |
Fundamentals of Biology and Health |
Cellular Biophysics |
30 |
|
Biochemistry I |
45 |
||
|
Bromatology |
60 |
||
|
Epidemiology |
60 |
||
|
Genetics, Evolution and Molecular Biology |
45 |
||
|
Humanities, Language and Education |
Reading and Text Interpretation in English II |
30 |
|
|
Nutrition |
Food |
30 |
|
|
Nutritionist’s Professional Practice |
30 |
||
|
Outreach and Extension Methodology |
45 |
||
|
Nutrition and Dietetics I |
45 |
||
|
Integrative Seminar |
60 |
||
|
|
Mentoring II |
20 |
|
|
3 |
Fundamentals of Biology and Health |
Biochemistry II |
75 |
|
Immunology |
30 |
||
|
Human Physiology I |
45 |
||
|
Biostatistics |
30 |
||
|
Nutrition |
Food Hygiene and Legislation |
60 |
|
|
Dietetic Methods I |
60 |
||
|
Nutrition and Dietetics II |
30 |
||
|
Nutrition in Life Cycles I |
45 |
||
|
Nutritional Assessment I |
60 |
||
|
|
Mentoring III |
10 |
|
|
4 |
Fundamentals of Biology and Health |
Human Physiology II |
45 |
|
Scientific Methodology |
30 |
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|
Humanities, Language and Education |
Academic Writing |
30 |
|
|
Nutrition |
Nutritional Assessment II |
60 |
|
|
Food and Nutritional Education |
90 |
||
|
Nutrition in Life Cycles II |
45 |
||
|
Dietetic Methods II |
60 |
||
|
Food Technology |
45 |
||
|
|
Mentoring IV |
10 |
|
|
5 |
Fundamentals of Biology and Health |
Nutrition and Pharmacology |
45 |
|
Nutrition |
Management in Food and Nutrition Units I |
60 |
|
|
Nutritional Care in Chronic Diseases I |
30 |
||
|
Gerontology |
60 |
||
|
Nutrition and Public Health |
60 |
||
|
Senior Thesis Project I |
15 |
||
|
Nutritional Therapy and Physiopathology I |
90 |
||
|
|
Mentoring V |
10 |
|
|
6 |
Nutrition |
Management in Food and Nutrition Units II |
60 |
|
Nutritional Care in Chronic Diseases II |
30 |
||
|
Gerontology |
60 |
||
|
Psychology and Nutrition |
60 |
||
|
Sustainability and Nutrition |
30 |
||
|
Nutritional Therapy and Physiopathology II |
90 |
||
|
Senior Thesis Project II |
15 |
||
|
Pediatric Nutritional Therapy I |
45 |
||
|
|
Mentoring VI |
10 |
|
|
7 and 8 |
Nutrition |
Internship in Management in Food and Nutrition Units |
300 |
|
Internship in Clinical Nutrition |
300 |
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|
Internship in Nutrition and Public Health |
300 |
||
|
Internship in Specialty Area |
180 |
||
|
Senior Thesis |
60 |
||
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Mandatory Courses |
2,490 |
||
|
Elective Courses |
120 |
||
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Extracurricular Activities |
120 |
||
|
Internships |
1,080 |
||
|
Total Workload |
3,810 |
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* Curriculum approved in 2023.
