Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
Promoting healthy living through education, awareness, and professional practice in nutrition and dietetics.
About the Department
The Department of Nutrition and Dietetics has established the UG Programme in 2018 and focuses on the study of food, nutrition, and their impact on human health. It aims to promote healthy living by educating students about balanced diets, disease prevention, and therapeutic nutrition.
The department provides both theoretical knowledge and practical training to prepare students as qualified dietitians and nutrition professionals. It plays an important role in improving public health by spreading awareness about proper nutrition and lifestyle practices.
Students are trained to work in hospitals, clinics, community health centers, food industries, and research organizations. The department also encourages innovation and the application of scientific knowledge to solve real-life nutritional problems.
Vision
To be a centre of excellence in nutrition and dietetics by promoting healthy living, advancing knowledge, and producing skilled professionals who contribute to the well-being of society.
Mission
- To provide quality education in nutrition and dietetics with strong theoretical and practical knowledge
- To develop competent dietitians who can promote health and prevent diseases through proper nutrition
- To create awareness about healthy eating habits and lifestyle among the community
- To prepare students for professional careers in healthcare, food industry, and research fields
Nutrition & Dietetics students will acquire:
- 1. Understanding, critically assessing and knowing how to use and apply information sources related to nutrition, food, lifestyle and health.
- 2. Being familiar with nutrients, their function in an organism, bioavailability, requirements and recommended quantities, as well as the bases of energetic and nutritional balance.
- 3. Interpreting a nutritional diagnosis, evaluating nutritional aspects of a clinical record and implementing a dietary treatment plan.
- 4. Understanding the structure of food services, nutrition departments and hospital nutritionists, identifying and developing the functions of a nutritionist-dietician in a multidisciplinary team.
- 5. Perform food system management and leadership functions that consider sustainability in business, healthcare, community, and institutional areas.
PO1. KNOWLEDGE
Students:
- Follow the developments in the field of nutrition and dietetics
- Have knowledge and skill of the information and communication technologies essential to follow today's technological developments and improve themselves in this field
- Acquire the skill of understanding the basic values and culture of the society they live in, adapting to these and changing themselves positively
- Have knowledge of the concepts of physiology, nutritional biochemistry, nutrition, dietetics and other terminologies related to human health
PO2. SKILLS
Students:
- Apply the knowledge and skills they obtain to the situations encountered in both national and international level, as well as the ability of lifelong learning
- Aware of professional ethics in the nutrition and dietetics field
- Apply the scientific methods and techniques, as well as quality management processes related to food, nutrition and dietetics service sector
- Apply the skills of designing experiments/projects to solve issues related to nutrition and dietetics in the society
PO3. COMPETENCES
Students:
- Use the knowledge to increase the level of health and quality of life in the society they live
- Apply the professional competency acquired during the process of learning towards their career growth with the collaborative and cooperative attitude
Department Faculty
Meet our dedicated faculty members committed to academic excellence and nutritional mentorship.
Head of the Department
Head / Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics
Faculty Member Name
Assistant Professor
- M.Sc., Ph.D.
- Experience
- Clinical Nutrition
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Faculty Member Name
Assistant Professor
- M.Sc.
- Experience
- Public Health Nutrition
- faculty@kavery.edu.in
Faculty Member Name
Assistant Professor
- M.Sc.
- Experience
- Food Science
- faculty@kavery.edu.in
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