BIOL 275 - Food for Thought

Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2015.

Prerequisites: BIOL 111 and 113. Nutritional neuroscience is an emerging. interdisciplinary field that directly relates to many health care and quality-of-life issues at the forefront of modern society. This course serves as an introduction to nutrition and metabolism, as well as to the neural and hormonal regulation of feeding. Through the use of primary literature and service-learning experiences, students develop an understanding of the experimental tools used in basic and applied nutritional sciences research. Blythe.