Fruits, Vegetables, Grains and Protein

Overview:

The Accelerated Nutrition and Food Sciences Master’s degree program (ANFSMS) is designed to offer UVM Nutrition and Food Sciences (NFS) students an opportunity to earn both the bachelor’s degree and the master’s degree in Nutrition and Food Sciences in five years. Student's entering the master's program as an accelerated student are only eligible to complete the non-thesis option of the master's degree.

This is a 30 credit MS degree with 9 credits toward the MS earned during the senior year (six of which will also count toward the BS).  The remaining 21 credits will be taken in the 5th year of study.  Full-time graduate student status will begin the summer after undergraduate graduation and be maintained until completion of the MS in NFS. 

The program is designed as a stepping stone to pursuit of clinical or community practice opportunities in nutrition and dietetics or professional opportunities in the food industry.

Requirements for Admission:

Students apply for admission to the Nutrition and Food Sciences AMP program during the regular application cycle.  Admission is restricted to students that are either entering the spring term of their junior year and no later than the start of the fall semester of their senior year.

Admission to the accelerated program requires the following:

  1. A declared major in NFS.
  2. NFS faculty member willing to serve as mentor
  3. A minimum of 3.0 cumulative GPA is required; a GPA of 3.3 or higher is preferred.
  4. Completion of a college-level statistics course.
  5. Completion of the Graduate College application form and three letters of recommendation.  GRE not required.
  6. A letter of support from a faculty member who is willing to serve as primary mentor during enrollment in the NFS AMP MS program. This may serve as the 3rd letter of recommendation.
  7. Completion of the UVM Accelerated Master's Degree Permission Form (attached to the online application)
  8. Finalists will be interviewed.  

Decisions on accepteance will be decided by an NFS department review committee

Important Course Information:

Students in accelerated MS program have the option of taking courses for graduate credit before all requirements for the BS/BA degree have been satisfied.  However, these courses can only be double-counted if taken the semester following admittance to the ANFSMS (Students must be admitted through the Graduate College before taking any courses that will be applied toward the master’s degree requirements). A maximum of 6 credit hours may be counted for both the BS and MS degrees and courses are limited to those approved for graduate credit.  You will be asked to list two of these courses on the UVM Accelerated Master’s Degree Permission Form.

Courses approved for graduate credit are found here: Graduate Approved Courses

The courses listed as approved for graduate credit are subject to change.  Graduate Research Credits cannnot be counted toward the 6 credits.

**Students taking a 200 level course approved for graduate credit as part of the ANFSMS program must notify the faculty member of the course that they are taking the course at the graduate level before the course begins. That notification must be copied to gradcoll@uvm.edu.

 

 

Program Curriculum:

Program Requirements:

  • Students must complete 30 credits
  • Students must complete a 3-6 credit final project under the direction of their graduate faculty mentor. 
  • Nine credits taken during the senior year can be transferred in to the MS degree. However, only 6 of these credits can be counted for the NFS/DNFS undergraduate degree.
  • This is a non-thesis track MS degree

Course requirements:

  • Stat 211:  Statistical Methods 1 (3 cr)
  • NFS 6350:  NFS Seminar  (1 cr)
  • NFS 6362:  Intro to Research Methods (3 cr)
  • NFS 6392: Master's Project Research (3-6 credits)
  • Remaining elective courses should be chosen in consultation with the student’s advisor and must be approved for graduate credit. Students are encouraged to choose courses that will enhance your Master's Project Research.

Comprehensive Examination:

  • AMP candidates will present an oral presentation on their final project by the end of the semester for which the final credits have been assigned.
  • The oral presentation will be attended by the faculty mentor and at least two additional members of the NFS gradaute program.  These three faculty form the student's Faculty Project Review Committee.
  • One Graduate College faculty member from another department can substitute for one NFS faculty member.
  • The student must create a flyer announcing the oral presentation two weeks before the presentation date and send it to their committee and to the NFS administrator for distribution.
    • The following information should be included: project title, student's name and degree program, presentation date, time and location, and project description.
  • The oral presentation and the Faculty project Review Committee meeting that follows will constitute the student's M.S. Comprehensive Examination.

Dietetics Concentration to NFS MS 5-Year Academic Plan:

This Academic Plan is for UVM DNFS major students that plan on applying for the ANFSMS program.

First Year

Fall Spring 
NFS 1043: Fundamentals of Nutrition3 creditsNFS 1073: Farm to Table3 credits
NFS 1044: Survey of the Field1 creditCALS 1020: Foundations: Info Tech3 credits
CALS 1010: Foundations: Comm Methods3 creditsChem 1580: Intro to Organic Chemistry4 credits
Chem 1100: Outline of General Chemistry4 creditsPSYC 1400: General Psychology3 credits
English 1001: Written Expression3 creditsElectives1-3 credits
Total Credits14Total Credits14

 

Second Year

Fall Spring 
NFS 2143: Nutrition in the Life Cycle4 creditsNFS 1034: ServSafe Certification course1 credit
ANPS 1190: Anatomy & Physiology4 creditsNFS 2114: Human Health in the Food Syst3 credits
HUM: Choose Diversity Option3 creditsANPS 1200: Anatomy & Physiology4 credits
SOC 1500: Intro to Sociology/or Diversity Option3 creditsBSAD 1190, BSAD 1610 or CDAE 25803 credits
STAT 1110: Elements of Statistics3 creditsElectives3 credits
Total Credits16Total Credits14

 

Third Year

Fall SpringApply for Admission
to Accelerated MS
by Feb 1 of this semester
NFS 1053:Basic Concepts of Food3 credits    NFS 3243:Advanced Nutrition3 credits
NFS 2183:Intro to Biochemistry1 creditNFS 250: Food Service Systems Management4 credits
BSAD 2300: Prin Mgt & Org Behavior3 creditsHLTH 1030: Medical Terminology2 credits
HUM: Choose Diversity Option3 creditsNFS 3890: Practicum1 credits
    
Elevtives6 creditsElectives6 credits
Total Credits16Total Credits16

 

Fourth Year

Fall Spring 
NFS 3203: Food Microbiology4 creditsNFS 3262: Community Nutrition3 credits
NFS 3223: Nutrition Ed & Counseling3 creditsNFS 3261: Clinical Nutrition 23 credits
NFS 3260: Clinical Nutrition 13 creditsBIOC 3063: Nutritional BioChem3 credits
200 level course approved for graduate credit or 300 level course selected according to student's interest*3 credits      200 level course approved for graduate credit or 300 level course selected according to student's interest*3 credits      
  STAT 211**3 credit
NFS 4286: DNFS Senior Seminar1 creditNFS 3890: Practicum1-3 credits
Electives3 creditsElectives 
Total Credits17Total Credits16-18

*May be counted as the part of the six credits that count for both the NFS (Dietetics Concentration) BS and ANFSMS degree.

**To be transferred to the ANFSMS degree, does not count for the NFS(Dietetics Concentration) BS degree.

 

Fifth Year: Graduate Program ANFSMS

Fall Spring 
NFS 6362: Intro to Research Methods

3 credits     

NFS 6350: NFS Graduate Seminar1 credit
NFS 6392: Master's Project Research3 creditsNFS 6392*: Master's Project Research3 credits
200 level course approved for graduate

credit or 300 level course selected according to

student's interest
5 credits200 level course approved for graduate

credit or 300 level course selected according to

student's interest
6 credits
Total Credits11Total Credits10

Total of 21 credits to complete the NFS MS Degree

* Students must complete a 3-6 credit final project under the direction of their graduate faculty mentor.

 

Prerequisite sequence: 
CHEM 100→CHEM 1580→NFS 2183→NFS 3243; NFS 3243→NFS 3260 , NFS 3260, BIOC 3063 . 

ENG 001 or ENG 0XX first year is recommended. 

Any two Humanities/Fine Arts Courses can be taken (suggest choosing University Approved Diversity course for at least one Humanities option to increase the number of electives the student has available).

The Diversity courses Anthropology 1100 will fulfill the Social Science requirement.

Diversity Requirement: 
All undergraduates must successfully complete one three-credit course from Category 1 (Race and Racism in the U.S.) and a second three-credit course from either Category 1 or Category 2 (Human and Societal Diversity). These requirements will apply as well to undergraduate transfer students receiving bachelor's degrees from May 2012 onward.

For approved courses refer to Web Page: http://catalogue.uvm.edu/undergraduate/courses/diversitycourses/

Diversity courses in Art, Classics, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Language, and Theater will also fulfill the humanities requirement. 

 

Potential 200 and 300 level graduate courses outside NFS for the fourth or fifth year:

Courses should be selected according to the student’s interest and career goals:

Biochem: 212, 305, 306
CTS: 271, 305, 306
CDAE: 207, 208, 218, 237
EDDS: 208, 313, 336
FS: 321, 335, 340, 345, 355
MMG: 220
NH: 301, 303
PSYS: 211
PH: 301, 302, 303, 311, 312, 318

 

Food Science Concentration to NFS MS 5-Year Academic Plan:

First Year

Fall Spring 
NFS 1043: Fundamentals of Nutrition3 creditsNFS 1073: Farm to Table3 credits   
NFS 1044: Survey of the Field1 creditCALS 1020: Foundations: Info Tech3 credits
Chem 1100: Outline of General Chemistry4 creditsChem 1580: Intro to Organic Chemistry4 credits
ENGS 1001:Written Expression3 creditsPSYC 1400: General Psychology3 credits
CALS 1010: Foundations: Comm. Methods3 creditsElectives1-3 credits
Total Credits14Total Credits14

 

Second Year

Fall Spring 
NFS 2113: US Food Policy & Politics3 creditsNFS 2153: Principles of Food Technology3 credits
ANPS 019: Anatomy and Physiology4 creditsNFS 2154: Principles of Food Tech Lab1 credit
HUM: Choose Diversity Option3 creditsANPS 020: Anatomly & Physiology4 credits
STAT 111: Elements of Statistics3 creditsMATH 009 or higher, or Accounting3 credits
SOC 001: Intro to Sociology or Diversity Option3 creditsElectives1-3 credits
Total Credits16Total Credits14

 

Third Year

Fall Spring

Apply for Admission
to Accelerated MS
by Feb 1 of this semester

NFS 2183: Survey of BioChemistry3 creditsNFS 1072: Kitchen Science3 credits
NFS 3253: Food Safety & Regulation3 creditsNFS 2156: Deadly Food: Outbreak Investigations3 credits
  NFS 3243: Advanced Nutrition3 credits
Electives9 creditsElectives6 credits
Total Credits16Total Credits15

 

Fourth Year

Fall Spring 
NFS 3203*: Food Microbiology3 creditsNFS XXX: Third Party Audit3 credits
NFS 3204: Food Micro Lab1 creditNFS 3283: HAACP: Theory & Application3 credits    
NFS 3205: Functional Foods3 creditsNFS 2991: Food Industry Internship3 credits
NFS 4286: Senior Seminar1 credit  
Electives8 creditsElectives6 credits
Total Credits16Total Credits15

Total 121 credits: 120 count for the NFS BS degree, 9 count for the NFS MS degree

*Any of these courses approved for graduate credit may be counted as the part of the six credits that count for both the NFS BS and the ANFSMS degree.

**To be transferred to the NFS MS degree, does not count for the NFS degree

 

Fifth Year: Graduate Program ANFSMS

Fall Spring 
NFS 6362: Intro to Research Methods3 creditsNFS 6350: NFS Graduate Seminar1 credit
NFS 6392*: Master's Project Research3 creditsNFS 6392*:Master's Project Research3 credits
200 level course approved for graduate credit or 300 level course selected according to student's interest*5-7 credits200 level course approved for graduate credit or 300 level course selected according to student's interest*6-9 credits
Total Credits11-14Total Credits10-13

Total of 21 credits required to complete the ANFSMS degree

*Students must complete a 3-6 credit final project under the direction of their graduate faculty mentor.

 

Prerequisite sequence:
CHEM 23→CHEM 42→PBIO 185→NFS 3243; NFS 3243→NFS 3260, 3263.

ENG 001 or ENG 0XX first year is recommended.

Any two Humanities/Fine Arts Courses can be taken (suggest choosing University Approved Diversity course for at least one Humanities option to increase the number of electives the student has available).

The Diversity course Anthropology 021 will fulfill the Social Science requirement.

Diversity Requirement:
All undergraduates must successfully complete one three-credit course from Category 1 (Race and Racism in the U.S.) and a second three-credit course from either Category 1 or Category 2 (Human and Societal Diversity). These requirements will apply as well to undergraduate transfer students receiving bachelor's degrees from May 2012 onward.

For approved courses refer to Web Page: http://catalogue.uvm.edu/undergraduate/courses/diversitycourses/

Diversity courses in Art, Classics, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Language, and Theater will also fulfill the humanities requirement.


Potential 200 and 300 level graduate courses outside NFS for the fourth or fifth year:

Courses should be selected according to the student’s interest and career goals:

Biochem: 212, 305, 306
CTS: 271, 305, 306
CDAE: 207, 208, 218, 237
EDDS: 208, 313, 336
FS: 321, 335, 340, 345, 355
MMG: 220
NH: 301, 303
PSYS: 211
PH: 301, 302, 303, 311, 312, 318

 

Nutrition, Sustainability and Society Concentration to NFS MS 5-year Academic Plan:

First Year
 

Fall Spring 
NFS 1043: Fundamentals of Nutrition3 creditsNFS 1073: Farm to Table3 credits
NFS 1044: Survey of the Field1 creditCALS 1020: Foundations: Info Tech3 credits
CALS 1010: Foundations: Comm Methods3 creditsCHEM 1580: Intro Organic Chem4 credits
CHEM 1100: Outline of General Chemistry4 creditsPSYS 1400: Into to Psychological Science3 credits
ENGS 1001: Written Expression3 creditsElectives1-3 credits
                                    Total Credits14                                  Total Credits13


Second Year

Fall Spring 
NFS 2113: US Food Policy & Politics3 creditsNFS 2114: Human Health in the Food System3 credits
NFS 2143: Nutrition in the Life Cycle3 creditsANPS 1200:Anatomy & Physiology4 credits
ANPS 1190: Anataomy & Physiology4 creditsANTH 1100: Cultural Anthropology3 credits
HUM: Choose diversity option3 creditsMATH 1012 or higher, or Accounting3 credits
STAT 1110: Elements of Statistics3 creditsElectives1-3 credits
                                    Total Credits16                                    Total Credits14


Third Year

Fall Spring

Apply for Admission to Accelerated  MS
by Feb 1 of this semester                     

NFS 1053: Basic Concepts of Foods3 creditsNFS 3243: Advanced Nutrition3 credits
NFS 2183: Intro to Biochemistry3 creditsNFS XXXX: 3 credits
NFS 3245: Nutrition for Global Health3 creditsNFS 2990: Sustainable Diets3 credits
NFS 3254: Global Food Safety3 credits  
NFS 3262: Community Nutrition3 creditsElectives6 credits
                                 Total Credits15                                    Total Credits15


Fourth Year

Fall Spring 
NFS 3203: Food Microbiology3 creditsNFS 2995/NFS 2991: Research or Internship3 credits
NFS 3204: Food Micro Lab1 credit  
NFS 3XXX: Food, Exchange and Culture3 credits  
NFS 4286: NFS Senior Seminar1 credit  
Electives4-7 creditsElectives9-12 credits
                                          Total Credits12                                              Total Credits12

Total 121 credits: 120 count for the NFS BS degree, 9 count for the NFS MS degree

*Any of these courses approved for graduate credit may be counted as the part of the six credits that count for both the NFS BS and the ANFSMS degree.

**To be transferred to the NFS MS degree, does not count for the NFS degree


Fifth Year: Graduate Program NFS MS

Fall Spring 
NFS 6362: Intro to Research Methods3 creditsNFS 6350: NFS Graduate Seminar1 credit
NFS 6392: Master's Research Project3 creditsNFS 6392: Master's Research Project3 credits
200 level course approved for graduate credit or 300 level course selected according to student's interest*5-7 credits200 level course approved for graduate credit or 300 level course selected according to student's interest*6-9 credits
                                    Total Credits11-13                                   Total Credits10-12

Total of 21 credits required to complete the ANFSMS degree

*Students must complete a 3-6 credit final project under the direction of their graduate faculty mentor.


Prerequisite sequence:
CHEM 23→CHEM 42→NFS 2183→NFS 3243; NFS 3243→NFS 3260, 3263.

ENG 001 or ENG 0XX first year is recommended.

Any two Humanities/Fine Arts Courses can be taken (suggest choosing University Approved Diversity course for at least one Humanities option to increase the number of electives the student has available).

The Diversity course Anthropology 021 will fulfill the Social Science requirement.

Diversity Requirement:
All undergraduates must successfully complete one three-credit course from Category 1 (Race and Racism in the U.S.) and a second three-credit course from either Category 1 or Category 2 (Human and Societal Diversity). These requirements will apply as well to undergraduate transfer students receiving bachelor's degrees from May 2012 onward.

For approved courses refer to Web Page: http://catalogue.uvm.edu/undergraduate/courses/diversitycourses/

Diversity courses in Art, Classics, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Language, and Theater will also fulfill the humanities requirement.


Potential 200 and 300 level graduate courses outside NFS for the fourth or fifth year:

Courses should be selected according to the student’s interest and career goals:

Biochem: 212, 305, 306
CTS: 271, 305, 306
CDAE: 207, 208, 218, 237
EDDS: 208, 313, 336
FS: 321, 335, 340, 345, 355
MMG: 220
NH: 301, 303
PSYS: 211
PH: 301, 302, 303, 311, 312, 318

Tips for Success:

  • Choose courses that will enhance your research project
  • Think about what you want to accomplish with your research project
  • Keep a running dialog with your advisor:
    • set up meetings to discuss progress and bench marks
    • discuss course selections
  • Seek assistance with writing your research project with the Graduate Writing Center

Academic Standards:

  • Students in the ANFSMS are expected to continue the high degree of academic performance that was evident when they were admitted to the program. 
  • A minimum cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 is required for continuation in the ANFSMS. 
  • Undergraduate students whose cumulative GPA at any time falls below this minimum for more than one semester will be removed from the ANFSMS. 
  • Once students in the ANFSMS receive the BS and are admitted to the regular MS degree program, academic probation matters will be dealt with in the same manner as for other MS students.
For more NFS AMP information contact:
Dr. Amy Trubek, PhD, or 802-656-0833