<p>I really love everything about the school except that they don't offer nutrition as a major..
I want to study nutrition or global health (or international health or anything along those lines really).
I know they have the Careers in Health Professions program but I can't find anywhere about if you can specialize in nutrition
Does anyone have any ideas for what I could do there? Thanks!</p>
<p>There are specializations within the Biology department, but not specifically for nutrition. However, the endocrinology specialization may tangentially meet your needs as part of it covers metabolism, and there are a good number of [courses](<a href=“http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/archives/2012-2013.pdf”>http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/archives/2012-2013.pdf</a>) in the Biology department that teach nutrition (just use Ctrl+F to find them). You can also take graduate school courses as an undergrad in the [Molecular</a> Metabolism and Nutrition](<a href=“Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences – at the University of Chicago”>Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences – at the University of Chicago) cluster within the graduate school. If you are ambitious, you could choose a combination of major/minor declarations in public policy, biology, chemistry, international relations, etc.</p>
<p>UChicago is famous for its graduate school placement, so after four years here you would be well set for applying to top MPH or PhD programs.</p>
<p>I was thinking endocrinology would be closest as well. Thank you so much for the links! I didn’t realize there were so many courses in nutrition.</p>
<p>Try Cornell (major) or Penn (minor only).</p>
<p>Cornell is my first choice! 
Nutrition and global studies there. I just want to have other options available if I’m not accepted.</p>
<p>Ok. First off, the U of C does not have a major or a minor in “nutrition studies.” This probably reflects the fact that “nutrition studies” is not an established academic discipline, and universities (pretty much all of them) are conservative beasts in terms of starting new disciplines, or even hiring in “new” subfields. For instance, NYU’s world-renowned art history faculty has no one who specializes in African art history. Staggering, when you think of the number of people in Africa, its incredible diversity of artistic traditions, how African art was crucial to the development of the modernist movement in Europe and America, and how artists from Africa have been taking the art world by storm for the past decade (e.g., people like El Anatsui). But I digress. </p>
<p>You want to study nutrition, and you are interested in the U of C. So… what to do? The U of C has some incredible departments, where you can study things intimately relation to nutrition. In the Biological Sciences Division, you can take classes that will teach you about the biology of nutrition, how things grow, how they are used by the creatures that consume them, and what the effects of environmental and chemical changes on nutrition have been. In Anthropology, you can study how culture shapes approaches to food and agriculture; in economics, you can study the factors that shape how markets affect what is grown, traded, distributed, and consumed. In Sociology, you can consider the social effects of nutrition, and how it relates to other social issues, such as class, income, migration, etc. In History, you can study how issues of comestible resources have affected the development of political, social, and cultural events throughout the world. In computer science, you can figure out ways to manage data about nutrition. And so on. </p>
<p>And if you really want to study nutrition through a combination of these approaches and disciplines, you can put together your own major, focusing on nutrition as a set of connected problems and issues.</p>
<p>What does this mean? It means you don’t need a specific program or department in “nutrition” in order to study it. And you can approach the broad liberal arts requirements and offerings at the University of Chicago as an opportunity to shape the way you understand and learn about nutrition. That is what liberal arts are all about, after all. (No, they are not about “nutrition” – but more broadly they allow almost anything to be studied, examined, and understood).</p>
<p>That was an amazing answer. I hadn’t thought of it that way! I feel much better about my options now. I think that approach could help me even more since I want to study nutrition as it relates to the problems of the world. Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Very much in agreement with 2manyschools- “I want to understand nutrition” is about as broad and as multidisciplinary as “I want to understand war” (which I told myself I wanted to do some very long time ago.) </p>
<p>It sounds like you don’t want an undergraduate certification to be a nutritionIST (if such a thing exists) nor does it sound like you want to be a bioengineering undergraduate major (as I read your OP, a bioengineer studying GMO’s would fall under your broad label, and there are colleges with bioengineering majors.)</p>
<p>So yes, apply widely and broadly to schools that interest you. BUT I just have to add- and I would not have thought of it without the reference to NYU- which actually has the exactly the kind of focused interdisciplinary program you referred to in your OP.</p>
<p>[Nutrition</a>, Food Studies, and Public Health - NYU Steinhardt](<a href=“http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/nutrition/]Nutrition”>Nutrition and Food Studies | NYU Steinhardt)</p>
<p>Don’t ask me how I knew that :-)</p>
<p>Wow I didn’t even know NYU had a program like that and I looked into it and apparently they were the one of the first to! They actually have a major called Global Public Health/Nutrition and Food Studies: Nutrition & Dietetics. That’s pretty much exactly what I’m looking for. I want to eventually go in the peace corps or work on programs abroad but be able to come back and be a nutritionist counselor. Thank you so much! I’ll have to add them to my list.</p>
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<p>Hahaha and this member is very appreciative :)</p>
<p>McGill University. It’s where I go and I am considering something with nutrition, they have many majors in nutrition: Dietetics (leads to certification), Sports Nutrition, Food function and safety, Global Nutrition, Health and Disease, Nutritional biochemistry and obviously a minor</p>
<p>[Bachelor</a> of Science (Nutritional Sciences) ? B.Sc.(Nutr.Sc.) | Programs, Courses and University Regulations - McGill University](<a href=“http://www.mcgill.ca/study/2013-2014/faculties/macdonald/undergraduate/ug_faes_bachelor_of_science_nutritional_sciences]Bachelor”>Bachelor of Science (Nutritional Sciences) – B.Sc.(Nutr.Sc.) | 2013–2014 Programs, Courses and University Regulations - McGill University)</p>