NUTRITION SCIENCES

As a master’s student in Baylor’s Nutrition Sciences MS Program, you will gain expert knowledge in human nutrition, macronutrients and micronutrients and their role in health, human behavior and quality of life.

Degree Options

Thesis: This option requires 30 semester hours of approved graduate courses, including at least three graduate hours of the approved applied statistics. Eighteen hours are required from Nutrition Science (NUTR) courses focused on nutrition sciences or an approved elective.

Non-Thesis: This option requires a minimum of 36 semester hours of approved graduate courses, including a research project and paper, nine support graduate hours including the approved applied statistics class, six semester hours of graduate-level courses in areas such as health, exercise or counseling and 18 hours from NUTR courses.

Career Opportunities

There is increasing global demand for dietetics professionals. Career opportunities may include:

n Medical Nutrition Therapy

n Pharmaceutical Sales

n Weight Management

n Eating Disorder Counseling

n Food Systems Management

Outstanding Faculty and Facilities

Our gifted faculty of registered dietitians are active researchers and accomplished consultants, applying their skills in diverse geographic, cultural, ethnic and socio-economic venues. They are dedicated to helping you meet your career goals and offer a wealth of practical experience, which can be adapted and individualized for you. Our faculty and students also work within excellent facilities including the Sunderland Food Sciences Research Lab, the Experimental Food Preparation Lab and the Body Composition Lab. A nutritional microbiome analysis lab is under development as well.

SUZY WEEMS, PHD, RD, CSSD, LD, FANDDr. Weems is a professor of nutrition sciences and serves as graduate program director for nutrition sciences in the department of family and consumer sciences. She is an expert in wellness, weight management, diabetes care, eating disorders, cardiovascular health and sports dietetics.

JANELLE WALTER, PHD, RD, FAND, CFCSDr. Walter is a professor of nutrition sciences and serves as the program director for the didactic program in dietetics. Her research interests are focused on barriers to home food preparation, acceptability of sugar substitutes and diet practices of female college students.

LEIGH GREATHOUSE, PHD, RDDr. Leigh Greathouse is an assistant professor of nutrition sciences. Her research focuses on understanding how the relationship between diet, obesity and the microbiome impact risk for colon cancer. This research builds on her studies of how xenoestrogens affect reproductive tract disease and the impact of obesity and the microbiome on lung cancer risk.

Contact

Suzy Weems, PhD, RD, CSSD, LD, FANDGraduate Program Director, ProfessorOne Bear Place #97346 | Waco, TX 76798254-710-3626 | Email: Suzy_Weems@baylor.edubaylor.edu/fcs

n Sports Nutrition

n Culinary Arts

n Community Nutrition

n Public Health