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2025-2026 University Catalog 
    
2025-2026 University Catalog

NUTN 514 Nutrition Research & Scientific Communication


Credits: 3
The Nutrition Research course is a three credit hour course that provides an introduction to nutrition-based research including discussions of different types of research designs and their strengths and limitations, exploring a nutrition-related research question, conducting a critical review of the literature related to that research question, carrying out the analysis plan, and preparing a manuscript for publication of the results. Students work in teams to conduct various aspects of the research project centered on NHANES cross-sectional data.

Graded: A-F
May be taken only once for credit