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  • Department of Nutrition
    3209 Meyer Hall
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 752-8681
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Maternal and Child Nutrition

Application Deadline

  • This program is not accepting applications for 2010 admission

Degrees Offered

  • Admissions for the M.A.T. degree program are closed
  • M.A.S. (Master of Advanced Study) Plan II

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree with prior course work that includes (or is comparable to): one year of general chemistry, two quarters of organic chemistry, a course in statistics, one course in general physiology, and two quarters of the biochemistry of nutrition
  • A limited number of deficiencies in preparatory courses may be made up after admission to the program, though the courses will not count toward graduate unit requirement

Degree Requirements

Administrative Bylaws

The program consists of three required six-unit core courses (Nutrition During Pregnancy, Lactation and Infant Nutrition, and Child and Adolescent Nutrition), six to eight units of special topics seminars, four to six units of electives, and a six-unit student project (produced in consultation with a three-member guidance committee) for a total of 36 units. Each of the core courses will comprise 10 weeks of in-class instruction twice per week for two-and-a-half hours per meeting. Classes will also include online discussion of related material and readings.

This is a Departmentally-based Graduate Program.

For more information, visit the Maternal and Child Nutrition Web site.

Contacts

Program Chair
Kathryn G Dewey Nutrition (530) 752-0851
Charles Hess Naternal and Child Nutrition (530) 754-0159
Academic Advisers
Kathryn G Dewey Nutrition 8/1/06 - 7/31/08 (530) 752-0851
Meredith J Heinig Nutrition 8/1/06 - 7/31/08 (530) 752-8681
Carl L Keen Nutrition 8/1/06 - 7/31/08 (530) 752-6331
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Sharon Munowitch University Extension (530) 757-8896
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Shelly Archer Office of Graduate Studies (530) 754-5886