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: Instructional Design or permission of Instructor.

HNUT 532 Instructional Design (4 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 533 Online Instruction (3 qh): Focuses on the practical considerations of planning and developing courses for successful online learning. Topics covered include: Characteristics of distance learners and instructors; course design and development, teaching and tutoring, needs assessment and evaluation strategies, using the World Wide Web in education; and online learning technologies. Students apply what they have learned in development of their own online course map (offered spring quarter).
Prerequisite: Instructional Design or permission of Instructor.