PLOs and PEOs
Introduction Road Map PLOs and PEOs Roadmap F2025
Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)
BS Human Nutrition and Dietetics Programs has the following objectives:
- PEO 1: Demonstrate a profound understanding of the functionality of different nutrients and food components at cellular, systemic, and whole-body levels
- PEO 2: Develop the skills to evaluate the impact of diverse nutritional components on human health and the prevalence of various disease patterns
- PEO 3: Design high-quality research projects and develop innovative interventions aimed at modifying meal patterns and food choices with a commitment to ethical research practices
- PEO 4: Actively contribute to the overarching objective of enhancing the health of individuals, families, and communities through the expertise and actions rooted in ethical consideration
- PEO 5: Provide services to various community, professional, and governmental organizations in terms of academic support, professional assistance, and volunteer aid.
Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
Students graduating with a BS Human Nutrition and Dietetics degree would be able to:
- PLO 1: Nutrition Knowledge: Describe the basic principles of food and nutrition and their multidisciplinary scope
- PLO 2: Food characterization: Demonstrate the physical, chemical, and biological properties of food, functionality of food ingredients
- PLO 3: Food and Health: Evaluate the structural and functional aspects of different body organs, and the cumulative effects of hormonal and neural interactions on metabolism
- PLO 4: Food Physiology: Demonstrate the interactions between nutrient intake, absorption, transport, processing, storage, catabolism, and excretion, as well as the regulation of metabolic homeostasis
- PLO5: Nutritional Assessment: Apply the nutrition knowledge and nutritional assessment techniques for promotion of improved food choices, nutritional status, and well-being of the people
- PLO 6: Nutrition and life stages: Evaluate nutritional needs during different life stages, including conception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, pregnancy, lactation, aging, and special clinical conditions
- PLO 7: Nutritional Policies and Programs: Analyze the significance of policies related to food legislation, nutrition, and public health, seeking out and addressing gaps in the matrix of policies
- PLO 8: Sports Nutrition: Demonstrate the integrated knowledge of nutrition, ergonomics, and training principles for support and exercise (Stream Specific)
- PLO 9: Global Nutrition: Explore the significance of nutrition in a global perspective in the context of disease patterns, and global disease burden (Stream Specific)
- PLO 10: Functional foods: Investigate the potential of conventional and novel ingredients in food product development aimed at maintaining optimal health and disease prevention (Stream Specific)
- PLO 11: Research methods in Nutrition: Conduct applied research through applying appropriate statistical tools in experimental design and data analysis for application in real-world scenarios