Class and Course Information

  • New Hybrid Grad course for Spring 2017

    HDFS 5002-Special Topics: Public Health Nutrition Through the Lifespan: Concepts and Controversies

    This is a Hybrid/Blended Course: Taught mostly online with 3 in-class sessions on Tuesday afternoons in Family Studies Building

    In person sessions will be held March 7 and April 4 from 2:15-4:00 and May 2 from 1:30-4:00 (could start later)

    Open to graduate students, juniors and seniors. No prerequisites required.  

    Faculty

    Kim M. Gans, Ph.D., MPH, LDN

    Professor, Department of Human Development & Family Studies

    Email: Kim.Gans@uconn.edu

    Email Dr. Gans for permission code if interested in enrolling.

    Course Topics and Description

    • Want to understand nutrition issues of your siblings, your friends, your parents, and your grandparents?
    • Are you curious about the effect of different diets on your health?
    • Have you ever wondered how neighborhoods and social environments might influence weight status?
    • Curious about how the food industry, food and agriculture affect our food supply?
    • What determines how children and adolescents choose to eat?
    • How can we help to change what people eat?

     

    This course provides:

    • A broad-based discussion of the concepts, controversies, and scope of public health nutrition
    • A focus on current nutrition topics in the United States
    • A discussion of issues related to nutrition across the lifespan for infants, children, adolescents, adults and older adults with a special emphasis on vulnerable populations.

    See course flyer here.  

     

     

    For more information, contact: Kim Gans at kim.gans@uconn.edu

If you have any questions, please contact Grad School at 860-486-3617.