Pre-Clinical Dietetics and Nutrition

Do you love food? Do you love it so much you want to learn the science behind it? And how food is digested and absorbed? Would you like to help people make good food choices and stay healthy? If so, then you may be interested in our two-year program. 

You’ll take courses in several different areas, including chemistry, biology, sociology and psychology. After you complete the program on our campus, you’ll apply to the University of Pittsburgh’s clinical dietetics and nutrition program in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. That’s where you’ll finish your bachelor’s degree. 

Once you earn your degree, you can pretty much work anywhere: In a hospital or health care center you’ll make sure patients receive proper nutrition. In an industry or business where you’ll research new products. For the government where you can develop food and nutrition policies.

What you can do with a degree in Pre-Clinical Dietetics and Nutrition .

 The two-year program at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford must include the following courses:

• INTRODUCTION TO CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
• INTRODUCTION TO BIODIVERSITY
• GENERAL CHEMISTRY I
• GENERAL CHEMISTRY II
• ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I
• ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I LAB
• ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II
• ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II LAB
• COLLEGE ALGEBRA II
• STATISTICS MATHEMATICS
• ENGLISH COMPOSITION I
• ECONOMICS IN THE MODERN WORLD
• INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
• INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
• PUBLIC SPEAKING
• INTEGRATED BUSINESS MICROCOMPUTING
• NUTRITION

Three other courses are considered prerequisites to the Clinical Dietetics and Nutrition Program:

1. Introduction to Human Nutrition (3 cr)  -This course may be taken during summer session 2 at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh prior to the student’s first fall semester in the CDN Program. It may be taken as an online course, DIT 0106 Fundamentals of Nutrition, through the University of Pittsburgh in PittsburghThis course may be taken during the spring semester of your junior year.
2. Introduction to the Profession of Dietetics  (1 cr)  -  This course may be taken during the fall semester of the junior year.
3. Social and Cultural Determinants of Food Behavior (3 cr)

In addition to completing the required courses listed above, you will need to earn a minimum cumulative and prerequisite GPA of 2.50 and earn a minimum grade of C- in all courses designated as prerequisites. Experience in a healthcare facility is highly recommended, but is not required.