Undergraduate in Nutrition

Earn your degree in Nutrition and make a real impact on public health and individual well-being.
Develop clinical, scientific, and social competencies to assess, design, and implement nutritional plans with both preventive and therapeutic approaches. At UCV, you’ll be trained as a professional committed to transforming the nutritional landscape of your community.

General Information

Targeted to

Applicants with the ability to communicate and execute complex mental processes involving conceptualizing and acquiring new knowledge. With a high interest in human well-being and health.

Fields of Action

• Organizer and executor of national and international nutrition programs
• Manager and/or advisor of food services in public and private institutions.

Duration

10 academic cycles

Curriculum

Logical Thinking
Communicative Skills
Sustainable Development Goal
Introduction to Public Health
English I

Climate Change and Risk Management
Constitution and Human Rights
Vallejo Lecture
Disability and Health Education
English II

Creativity and Innovation
Philosophy and Ethics
Epidemiology
Statistics and Data Analysis
English III

Scientific Research Methodology
Cellular, Molecular, and Biochemical Biology
Human Growth and Development
Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
English IV

Microbiology and Food Parasitology
Human Nutrition
Nutritional Biochemistry
Food and Nutrition Education
English V

Morphophysiology
Food Science
Nutritional Assessment
Elective Curricular Experience
English VI

Food Quality Management and Food Service Administration
Food Selection, Diet Design, and Food Exchange
Pharmacology and Food Interactions
Nutrition and Sport
English VII

Nutrition and Diet Therapy
Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics
Project Management
Elective Curricular Experience
English VIII

Research Project
Internship I
English IX

Research Project Development
Internship II
English X

July 20 Admission Exam

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Distinguished Authorities and Teachers

Amalia Guadalupe Vega Fernández

Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences

Fiorella Cubas Romero

Director of the School of Nutrition

July 20 Admission Exam

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Discover our differentiators

Laboratories

Simulator

Laboratorio de nutrición

Está implementado con los equipos necesarios para realizar prácticas de tecnología de alimentos, selección y preparación de alimentos, dietectics and diet design, control y calidad de alimentos.

Laboratorio de bromatología

Implementado con los equipos necesarios para realizar prácticas de bromatología, control y calidad de alimentos.

Virtual Simulator Lecturio

Virtual simulator of basic courses that analyzes and exemplifies practical, clinical, and medical laboratory procedures.