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  • Department of Nutrition
    3209 Meyer Hall
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 752-8681
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Maternal and Child Nutrition

Application Deadline

  • 2013 ADMISSION
  • General: Apr. 15
  • Final: May 31

Degrees Offered

  • M.A.S. (Master of Advanced Study) Plan II

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree with prior course work that includes (or is comparable to): one year of general chemistry, two quarters of organic chemistry, a course in statistics, one course in general physiology, and two quarters of the biochemistry of nutrition
  • A limited number of deficiencies in preparatory courses may be made up after admission to the program, though the courses will not count toward graduate unit requirement

Degree Requirements

Students follow the degree requirements reflecting the year s/he was admitted or the most recent version below.

Administrative Bylaws

Students gain advanced knowledge of nutrition during pregnancy; lactation and infant nutrition; and child and adolescent nutrition necessary for careers as nutrition/lactation specialists in public health and educational programs.

This is a self-supporting program, and receives no subsidies from the State of California. Tuition is set by the program per unit.

This is a departmentally-based Graduate Program.

For more information, visit the Maternal and Child Nutrition website.

Contacts

Program Chair
Francene M Steinberg
(Department Chair) 		Nutrition (530) 752-0160
Kathryn G Dewey
(Graduate Program Chair) 		Nutrition (530) 752-0851
Academic Advisers
Kathryn G Dewey
(Adviser: General) 		Nutrition 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-0851
Meredith J Heinig
(Adviser: Admissions and Primary Contact) 		Nutrition 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-8681
Carl L Keen
(Adviser: General) 		Nutrition 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-6331
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Melissa Marbach Maternal and Child Nutrition (530) 757-8734
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Shelly Archer Graduate Studies (530) 754-5886