{"id":2726,"date":"2013-06-20T09:36:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2013-06-20T09:36:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:36:48","slug":"new-international-nutrition-major-starts-september-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/2013\/06\/20\/new-international-nutrition-major-starts-september-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"New International Nutrition Major &#8211; starts September 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Faculty of Land and Food Systems is excited to announce the launch of the <b>International Nutrition Major<\/b> at The University of British Columbia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This new major will provide students with a solid background in human nutrition with a strong emphasis on application in international settings. Students will focus on fundamental and specialized Food, Nutrition and Health courses, as well as on an International Nutrition Field Studies course (FNH 460) where they will integrate both theory and practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The International Nutrition major puts UBC at the forefront, as it is the <i>only<\/i> undergraduate International Nutrition program in North America. The uniqueness of this major is that it will offer students field experience as well as specialized coursework in International Nutrition and development, better preparing them for future employment or graduate work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our International Nutrition students are currently working in Rwanda, Zambia, Cameroon, Cambodia and Laos with UNICEF and other international organizations focused on food security and nutrition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For more information on the International Nutrition major, including admission requirements, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landfood.ubc.ca\/undergraduate\/programs\/fnh\/int-nutrition\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">faculty website<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Any questions related to the International Nutrition major can be directed to<\/span> <a href=\"mailto:students@landfood.ubc.ca\">LFS Student Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Land and Food Systems is excited to announce the launch of the International Nutrition Major at The University of British Columbia. This new major will provide students with a solid background in human nutrition with a strong &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/2013\/06\/20\/new-international-nutrition-major-starts-september-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722108],"tags":[1227,604637,722147,26018,26019],"class_list":["post-2726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-courses-and-topics","tag-first-year","tag-fnh","tag-international-nutrition","tag-second-year","tag-third-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2728,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}