Nutrition & Food Science
The Home Economics (HEC) Department is one of fourteen Academic departments located on the Raymond Campus. The department currently offers courses in Basic Nutrition and Survey in Nutrition in both classroom and online formats. The Basic Nutrition course helps to prepare students for admission to nursing, dietetics, sports medicine, family and consumer sciences, pre-medicine, pre-dentistry and other allied health and home economics programs. The Survey in Nutrition course, which is primarily for non-science majors, introduces the student to the science of nutrition and can be used to satisfy the one credit-hour nutrition (science) general requirement of major universities.
Basic Nutrition
Basic Nutrition is a fundamental study of the nutrients in foods and the body's handling of those nutrients (including ingestion, digestion, absorption, transport, metabolism, interactions, storage, and excretion). Some discussion of environment and human behavior as they relate to foods is also incorporated.
Course Goals
• To have students learn certain basic principles of human nutrition including: The importance of food choices in achieving and maintaining good physical, mental and social well-being; The effects of cultural and environmental factors on food choices and nutrition habits; The roles of all essential nutrients in the maintenance of good health; Deficiency symptoms and ill-health conditions that can result from malnutrition; Individual nutritional needs and variations throughout the life cycle.
• To prepare students to better recognize nutrition fads and misinformation.
• To have students better understand the role of nutrition in the development, and treatment of certain common health problems such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and cancer.
Survey in Nutrition
Survey in Nutrition is an introductory level study of human nutrition concepts. Healthy eating, judging the validity of nutrition information, and other consumer issues will be highlighted.
Course Goals
• To have students develop knowledge of fundamental concepts as well as contemporary issues in nutrition as they relate to health and disease prevention. Also, to have students become more interested in and capable of basing food choices on credible nutrition information.
Contact
Dr. Bernice G. Spurlock
HEC-Nutrition Instructor/Chairperson
Hinds Community College
P.O. Box 1100
Raymond, MS 39154-1100
Phone: (601) 857-3268