Education Core:
HNUT 505 Communicating as a Nutrition Professional (3 qh): This course targets skills and techniques to enhance the effectiveness of professional and patient-centered communications. Translation of evidence-based science into layman’s terms will be emphasized. Development of skills needed to create educational materials for various literacy levels and cultures will be stressed.
HNUT 525 Assessment and Evaluation in Education (3 qh): This course is designed to provide skills and tools for the evaluation of a variety of structures, processes and outcomes of education and other evaluands. The course will enable the student to effectively develop the appropriate skills and apply the theories, concepts and models related to evaluation and assessment in a variety of settings and situations (offered summer quarter). Prerequisite: HNUT 532 Instructional Design or permission of Instructor.
HNUT 532 Instructional Design (3 qh): Designed to provide the healthcare professional with educational skills and techniques for the classroom, the individual patient, and for continuing education programs. The skills and techniques addressed are: developing teaching outlines to include behavioral objectives and interactive teaching, needs assessment and educational outcomes, communication and motivational techniques and theories for teaching the adult learner (offered fall quarter).
HNUT 535 Curriculum Development (3 qh): This course builds on the basic instructional design techniques from HNUT 532 Instructional Design and HNUT 525 Assessment and Evaluation in Education. The course activities will have the student build upon the basic course/class design/evaluation skills to identify core competencies and create a set of interrelated courses/classes that meets predetermined program objectives (outcomes) or a curriculum. Through the creation of a conceptual framework, the student will illustrate relationships among the courses and explain how they support the program competencies and objectives. In addition, the student will create an assessment tool to appraise learner achievement of curriculum competencies and outcomes as well as an evaluation scheme that will measure programmatic outcomes. The development, management and evaluation skills can be applied to meet requirements of accrediting or other oversight agencies in both academic and clinical settings. Prerequisites: HNUT 525 Assessment and Evaluation in Education and HNUT 532 Instructional Design.