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Minor in Culinary Nutrition (19 credits)

Adviser: Virginia Quick (vquick@njaes.rutgers.edu)

Program Webpage: Here

All non-nutrition undergraduate students at Rutgers may choose to minor in culinary nutrition. This minor provides an opportunity for students to enhance and extend their non-nutrition major and apply that knowledge and skill set in an array of culinary nutrition career opportunities (e.g., food journalism, culinary communication, food and nutrition education, food marketing, food management, test kitchens, food production and processing, hospitality) and round out skills in other related areas (e.g., psychology, exercise science, health and wellness, education).

Required Courses

  • 11:709:201 Culinary Nutrition (3)

  • 11:709:202 Culinary Nutrition Laboratory (1) Pre/co-req 11:709:201

  • 11:709:255 Nutrition and Health (3)

  • 11:709:301 Food Safety & Sanitation in Food Service (2) Pre-req 11:709:201/202

  • 11:709:448 Food Production & Management (3) and 11:709:449 Food Service Lab (1) Pre-req 11:709:301

    Two (2) additional electives selected from the following:

  •  01:070:220 Politics of Food and Sex (3)

  • 01:190:220 Greek Food-Antiquity to Today  (3)

  • 01:420:283 French Gastronomy (3) 

  • 01:560:391 Italian Food Culture (3) 

  • 01:920:232 Sociology of Food & Eating (3) 

  • 11:709:245 Food Customs & Nutrition Equity (3)

  • 11:709:441 Methods of Sensory Analysis (3)