# Noncredit Nutrition (N NUTR) courses

Palomar College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 2 courses

Source: https://palomar.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/32573/33385/33473

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026, Spring 2027.

### N NUTR 920 — Food, Culture, and Society

- **Hours:** 48.00-54.00 hours lecture
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/n-nutr.md); Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/n-nutr.md)
- Note: May be taken up to 4 times
- Grading: Pass/No Pass/Satisfactory Progress

This course explores the role of food in shaping human behavior, identity, and social organization through the lens of cultural diversity. Students examine how traditional food practices reflect and influence geographic, historical, religious, economic, and social factors. Using theories and methods from the social and behavioral sciences, the course emphasizes how variables such as class, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, and globalization impact food choices, health outcomes, and food systems. Students engage in empirical research methods, including observation, hypothesis development, and survey design, to investigate how food practices are embedded within broader cultural and societal contexts.

### N NUTR 965 — Introduction to Human Nutrition

- **Hours:** 48.00-54.00 hours lecture
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Note: May be taken up to 4 times
- Grading: Pass/No Pass/Satisfactory Progress

The study of the relationship between human nutrition and health or disease states including the integration of anatomy, physiology, chemistry, biochemistry, medical science, and biotechnology to understand the full impact on the human body. Current nutrition guidance models and approaches to medical nutrition are analyzed with an emphasis on evidence-based findings. A discussion of food selection, the nutritional components of food, metabolism, and risks associated with excesses or deficiencies throughout the lifecycle are also discussed. The impact of technological advances in nutrition is explored, along with a discussion of a lack of equity in access to food and nutrition information.